Technical Product Marketing Manager

Technical Product Manager
This role is onsite at
KQED's newly renovated headquarters located in San Francisco, CA. Applicants must currently reside in San Francisco Bay Area or be willing to relocate. KQED is redefining public media to be more inclusive, participatory, and community-powered. In a time when misinformation and distrust in media are growing, we are committed to being the trusted journalistic source serving the needs of the Bay Area. Within this scope, our Digital Product Team develops experiences to serve the needs of our diverse audiences.

This includes partnering with editorial teams on essential content, developing new content formats, and building the infrastructure to power personalized experiences. To support these efforts our team is looking for a
Technical Product Manager
, to sit at the intersection of business strategy and deep engineering execution. We are looking for talented individuals to help our team build and maintain our digital systems, which power kqed.org and our mobile apps.

We are a media organization and we look for talent who can bring a strong knowledge of functional design to our digital properties and our community. KQED envisions a public media organization with a culture that centers on human dignity, equity, and belonging. We value the contributions of marginalized people in society — including Black, Indigenous, and all people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people — and we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, and we strongly encourage members of these communities to apply.

KQED provide citizens of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media. We provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; We help students and teachers thrive in 21st-century classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration- exposing them to new people, places and ideas. Establish prioritization frameworks to balance feature development, infrastructure upgrades, and technical debt reduction. Define key product metrics and analyze systems to evaluate system performance.

Lead grooming, backlog refinement, and sprint planning in an Agile environment, ensuring clear acceptance criteria and seamless alignment across cross-functional teams. Basic understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), databases (SQL vs. NoSQL), API design (REST, GraphQL), and Content Management System (CMS) architecture (headless vs. traditional CMS platforms). Targeted technical knowledge—such as machine learning/AI models, data pipelines, infrastructure, or developer tools (SDKs). Familiarity with JavaScript/typescript (or other oop language) preferred.

Agile methodologies and scrum management experience.

Work Experience & Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM field. Software Engineer, Solutions Architect or Systems Architect experience preferred. org and our mobile apps) and are always building new products on a modern stack with some legacy systems. Node / React / Webpack / Babel / Yarn
Elasticsearch / Redis / MongoDB / MySQL
JavaScript / Java / Springboot / Rest APIs
Whether you’re single, married, have children, are in a domestic partnership or anything in between, we have you covered.

Employees at KQED enjoy a family-friendly workplace offering paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, family medical leave benefits, comprehensive health/vision/dental and commuter benefits as well as a 403(b) plan. KQED encourages diversity, openness and offers training to support personal and professional development.