Manager, Technical Product Manager at Vanguard

Leads a team responsible for the strategic vision and roadmap for a technical product or products, demonstrating a understanding of the product(s) and associated business areas. Products often have cross-divisional implications. This role sits at the heart of Pi Tech’s developer ecosystem. You’ll lead teams that shape how engineers build, ship, and scale software, reducing friction, modernizing pipelines, and creating a developer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to demonstrate best practices that drive significant change to the client experience. Ensures business outcomes are linked to business case drivers.

• Develops strong partners with stakeholders to resolve production and implementation issues in a timely manner, and supports/drives escalations where required to enable rapid delivery.

• Leads the planning, development and implementation of a new technical product or multiple products with cross-divisional impact. Defines and analyzes markets, developing detailed product features and requirements, and developing implementation plans.

• Influences and employs a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually improve the user experience.

• Participates in and influences the team?s engineering practices in development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.

What you’ll do

• Lead Developer Enablement & Pipeline Engineering teams focused on improving developer productivity, reliability, and speed across Pi Tech.

• Champion the developer experience - bringing empathy, creativity, and a “developer-first” mindset to everything from tooling to workflows.

• Modernize and scale CI/CD pipelines, helping teams move from legacy patterns to modern, secure, and automated delivery models.

• Partner deeply with stakeholders across Platform and Application teams to co‑create solutions that balance autonomy, safety, and speed.

• Bring structure to ambiguity - define clear ownership, operating models, and roadmaps in evolving problem spaces.

• Develop senior engineers, fostering accountability, energy, and continuous improvement.

• Drive measurable outcomes such as reduced toil, higher deployment success, faster lead time, and improved developer sentiment.

What you bring

• A strong developer mindset

• Passion for elevating developer ecosystems, not just operating tools.

• Experience leading teams in developer enablement, platform engineering, or pipeline engineering.

• Strong collaboration and influence skills

• Experience with modern engineering platforms and tooling, ideally including:

• GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and automation

• Dexter or similar internal developer platforms

• Cloud‑native delivery patterns and observability

What makes this exciting

• You’ll shape how Pi Tech developers work every day.

• You’ll influence strategy while staying close to real engineering problems.

• You’ll help build a modern and scalable developer ecosystem

Qualifications:

• Minimum of five years related work experience. Two years of leading large cross-functional project teams preferred. Supervisory experience preferred.

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.

Special Factors Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.