Technical Product Manager

Frontiers is one of the world’s largest and most impactful research publishers, dedicated to making peer-reviewed, quality-certified science openly accessible. Their mission is to enable better collaboration and faster innovation so that scientists can deliver solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet. They provide researchers with a trusted, cutting-edge, AI-powered open science platform and actively drive the global transition to open science, working with a variety of scientific and educational stakeholders.

• 5+ years in Technical/Platform Product Management or engineering leadership with a focus on technical, platform, or developer-facing products.
• Platform-as-a-product mindset focused on internal engineering customers.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals and technical fluency.
• Strong grasp of API design, versioning, documentation, lifecycle management (deprecation, backward compatibility).
• Knowledge of distributed systems, messaging/event-driven architectures (including Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS), and authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT).
• Familiarity with SLAs/SLOs, uptime, latency, and cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Professional-level English (spoken and written).

Nice to have:

• Experience with authentication and/or messaging systems.
• Familiarity with GDPR, consent, and email deliverability at scale.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
• Experience facilitating InnerSource or community-driven shared services contributions.
• Interest or experience in Spec-Driven Development and AI coding assistants (Cursor, MCP).
• Background in Scientific Publishing.

• Own and evolve the roadmap for IAM and Messaging, prioritizing internal engineering demand, security, compliance, and scalability.
• Translate engineering needs into clear specifications and a prioritized backlog (PRDs/SDDs).
• Co-design with engineering on architecture trade-offs, API contracts, and service-level requirements.
• Manage service/API lifecycle including versioning strategy, deprecation, and backward compatibility.
• Serve as primary contact for internal developers integrating IAM and Messaging, managing discovery, onboarding, and support.
• Define and track success metrics such as adoption, reliability (SLAs/SLOs), integration time, security posture, and cost.
• Partner with Security, Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to ensure compliance and alignment with the Technology Framework.
• Communicate roadmap, trade-offs, and priorities transparently to engineering leadership and stakeholders.

Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.