# Technical Product Lead

**Company:** [Metabase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/metabase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Management
**Skills:** SQL, Data Modeling, Data Querying, Data Pipelines, Product Management, Customer Interviews, Technical Architecture, Roadmap Planning, Engineering Collaboration, User Workflows
**Posted:** 2026-04-21

> Technical Product Lead collaborates with customers, engineers, and designers to define product direction through deep user insights and problem-solving in data-heavy environments. Requires strong technical background, data tool experience, and product judgment to influence roadmaps and tradeoffs.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Talk directly to customers to understand how they use the product and where it falls short
- Build a deep understanding of user workflows, especially in data-heavy environments
- Identify and clearly define the most important problems to solve
- Turn those insights into clear proposals for product direction
- Move across engineering teams, focusing on where context is most useful
- Work closely with engineers and design to shape solutions and tradeoffs
- Bring clarity to ambiguous problems so teams can move quickly and make good decisions

## What we’re looking for
**Strong technical foundation** (e.g., engineering or similarly technical experience)
**Hands-on experience working with data tools** (e.g., querying, modeling, or building with data)
- Ability to understand user needs and translate them into clear problem definitions
- Strong product judgment - what’s worth solving, what isn’t, and why
- Comfortable working closely with engineers on feasibility and tradeoffs
- Able to operate with high judgment in ambiguous environments
- Clear thinker and communicator, especially when simplifying complex ideas

## Additional strengths
- Experience working on data-heavy or technical products
- Experience building or leading complex projects or initiatives
- Track record of taking ownership and operating with autonomy

## Similar roles

- [Senior Product Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/c324dc4a-d93f-4bae-ac5a-fd68d6f8b5fc) - Datadog - New York, NY - $192k – $240k/yr
- [Forward Deployed Product Manager, Public Sector](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/c7461fc2-3917-49bb-8d46-d986d3c65bb0) - Scale AI - New York, NY - $249k – $345k/yr
- [Group Product Manager I, Connections](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/63f2b1b1-5ec0-40f9-ab5b-a5b39b09181e) - Pinterest - San Francisco, CA - $165k – $339k/yr
- [Senior Product Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/ce450764-b7cd-4096-8835-a09cc40a43cd) - Maybern - New York, NY - $195k – $205k/yr
- [Senior Product Manager, Growth](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/01d79b64-4c4c-42d2-b685-170ae4a1606e) - Hex - New York, NY - $189k – $236k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/651acbb5-2d69-4646-bc6e-20e27dd7be0c
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/651acbb5-2d69-4646-bc6e-20e27dd7be0c