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Job Summary:
QTS Data Centers is a global leader in digital infrastructure, committed to innovation and sustainability. The Technology Product Lead will oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of data center delivery through technology and integrated systems, ensuring strategic alignment and operational effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
• Defining what should be built and why
• Making priority and scope tradeoffs within defined investment guardrails
• Owning product outcomes, not just delivery
• Ensuring clarity and continuity from strategy through execution
• Shape and evolve product vision and roadmaps aligned to organizational goals and technology strategy
• Translate business objectives into clear product outcomes, hypotheses, and success measures
• Align platform capabilities to KPI oriented outcomes such as scalability, reliability, automation, efficiency, and risk reduction
• Advocate for investments that measurably improve productivity and operational effectiveness
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term strategic outcomes
• Own product backlogs end-to-end, ensuring work is clearly defined, sequenced, and aligned to outcomes
• Write and refine epics, features, and user stories as needed — especially for complex, high-impact, or ambiguous work
• Lead backlog building and ongoing refinement to maintain a healthy, outcome-oriented pipeline of work
• Partner closely with engineering and architecture to shape solutions, identify dependencies, and surface risks early
• Validate usefulness and impact of delivered capabilities with internal users and stakeholders
• Serve as the primary decision-maker for prioritization, sequencing, and scope within your product area
• Foster collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across cross-functional teams
• Empower teams with clarity of intent while allowing flexibility in how work is delivered
• Make informed decisions under ambiguity, time pressure, or incomplete information
• Actively remove obstacles to progress and value delivery
• Lead or actively participate in key product-focused ceremonies, including backlog refinement and product planning
• Ensure shared understanding of priorities, intent, and success criteria across teams
• Partner with delivery leaders to support agile ways of working without becoming process-bound
• Adjust focus and level of involvement as products, teams, and maturity evolve
• Act as the primary liaison between engineering, architecture, business partners, and leadership
• Communicate priorities, progress, tradeoffs, and outcomes clearly and consistently
• Maintain transparency to build trust and alignment across teams and departments
• Continuously gather feedback and pain points to inform roadmap and backlog decisions
• Define and track KPIs tied to efficiency, performance, reliability, and business impact
• Use data and analytics to inform prioritization and validate hypotheses
• Monitor adoption and outcomes of delivered capabilities
• Translate results and learning into roadmap and backlog adjustments
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years of experience in product management, product leadership, or related roles
• Demonstrated ability to own outcomes and value realization, not just delivery or backlog management
• Proven experience making priority and scope tradeoffs in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
• Experience operating in highly cross-functional domains, translating business and operational needs into product capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple interconnected systems and platforms, driving clarity in complex environments
• Experience partnering closely with engineering, architecture, and operational stakeholders
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments while maintaining forward progress
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset
• Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
Preferred:
• Experience working with or adjacent to platforms that support large-scale infrastructure delivery and operations is highly valuable, including: Construction & Project Lifecycle Management: eBuilder, Procore, Primavera P6, Oracle Aconex
• ERP & Financial Systems: Oracle Fusion, Workday Financials, capital project accounting systems
• Asset, Capacity & Infrastructure Management: ServiceNow, asset lifecycle platforms, capacity planning tools
• Data & Integration Platforms: Snowflake, enterprise data platforms, API/integration layers (e.g., MuleSoft)
• Operational & Monitoring Systems: telemetry platforms, infrastructure monitoring, or DCIM-adjacent solutions
• Experience in organizations transitioning from project-centric to product-centric models
• Familiarity with agile and lean product practices in enterprise environments
Company:
Digital infrastructure leader driven by purpose, innovation and community impact. Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Overland Park, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.