Technical Product Senior Manager

Summary

The Technical Product Senior Manager is a senior leader who combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen. Serving as the firms business-facing lead for workflow automation initiatives this role ensures complex business needs are translated into clear actionable and technically sound solutions.

The Senior Manager must be equally adept at hands-on technical workbuilding automations when needed reviewing architectures validating feasibility and leveraging AI toolsas well as leading teams to deliver high-quality outcomes under tight timelines. By fluently bridging business priorities with technical execution this role drives alignment accelerates adoption of intelligent automation and enables scalable AI-driven workflow solutions across the firm.

This hybrid role blends the capabilities of a technical product senior manager technical lead and strategic business partner making it pivotal to shaping and delivering the firms Data & AI strategy.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the intake process for workflow automation and AI initiatives ensuring requests are captured assessed and prioritized by business value and technical feasibility.
• Manage the product backlog ensuring delivery teams focus on the right priorities and maintain momentum on high-impact initiatives.
• Serve as the primary business-facing lead engaging with stakeholders to clarify objectives align expectations and drive consensus on scope and priorities.
• Review and validate solution architectures technical approaches and platform selections ensuring alignment with firm standards and scalability needs.
• Partner with engineering leads to assess feasibility allocate resources and sequence work to maximize impact.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership when neededevaluating tools building prototypes or testing automation concepts to accelerate delivery.
• Influence the firms Data & AI roadmap by identifying emerging opportunities aligning business priorities and advising leadership on automation and AI adoption strategies.
• Track and communicate initiative progress proactively identify blockers and facilitate resolution to keep projects on schedule.
• Ensure stakeholder feedback is incorporated into roadmap planning and backlog refinement.
• Provides strong people leadership including coaching and mentoring delivery teams fostering technical excellence agility and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Advocate for intelligent automation adoption across the firm promoting awareness education and alignment with strategic goals.

Salaries vary by location and are based on numerous factors including but not limited to the relevant market skills experience and education of the selected candidate. If an estimated salary range for this role is available it will be provided in our Target Salary Range section. Our compensation package also includes bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits program. Benefits information can be found at Salary Range

$180000 - $200000 if located in Illinois

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the Duties and Responsibilities (Duties) above satisfactorily and meet the requirements below. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge skill and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. If you need such an accommodation please email (current employees should contact Human Resources).

Education and / or Experience :

Required :

Preferred :

Other Skills and Abilities :

The following will also be required of the successful candidate :

Sidley Austin LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Required Experience :

Senior Manager

Key Skills

Project Management Methodology,Program Management,SOAP,Agile,Oracle EBS,Apache Pig,Adobe Experience Manager,Jira,Release Management,Scrum,SAS,SDLC

Employment Type : Unclear

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 180000 - 200000