Technical Product Manager at Wabtec

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.   Who are we?   Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!   Business Overview: RailConnect is Wabtec’s flagship digital operations platform enabling real-time visibility, analytics, and decision support for rail operators. It provides web and mobile applications that empower customers to monitor fleets, manage assets, track events, execute workflows, and optimize operational performance. As a core product in Wabtec’s Digital Intelligence suite, RailConnect supports global rail customers with secure, scalable, cloud-native technology.   Job Overview: As the Technical Product Manager for RailConnect, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of key modules within the RailConnect web and mobile ecosystem. You will partner closely with engineering, UX, architecture, customer success, and business teams to deliver features that enhance operational efficiency for rail customers. Your responsibilities include defining product requirements, managing backlogs, prioritizing features, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality releases across both web and mobile channels.     Essential Responsibilities: In this role, you will act as the owner of one or more product areas, driving vision, strategy, and execution for enterprise-grade software solutions within Wabtec. You will work closely with engineering, UX, data, business, and customer teams to define product requirements, manage prioritization, create detailed roadmaps, and guide the product lifecycle from concept to launch. You will be responsible for translating business problems into clear product capabilities and ensuring high-quality product delivery in fast-paced, agile environments. The Technical Product Manager is responsible for full lifecycle product ownership—from discovery through delivery—for RailConnect capabilities.   In this role, the TPM shall utilize his/her experience and expertise to: • Partner with Support and Product SMEs to learn complex use case scenarios and system workflows to drive QA testing effectively for one or more products • Drive product discovery and translate customer needs into product requirements and user stories. • Translate user needs of rail operators into clear, detailed product requirements for web and mobile applications. • Own and maintain the product roadmap for assigned modules and communicate vision to stakeholders. • Collaborate daily with engineering teams to ensure technically feasible and scalable designs aligned with RailConnect architecture. • Conduct product discovery through customer interviews, workflow analysis, field feedback, and data insights. • Manage the product backlog, prioritize features based on customer impact, operational efficiency, and strategic business goals. • Work with UX teams to design intuitive, responsive interfaces optimized for web and mobile usage. • Drive feature elaboration, acceptance criteria, user stories, and release planning. • Partner with customer support to analyze issues, identify root causes, and prioritize enhancements or fixes. • Facilitate cross-functional collaboration—whiteboarding, design reviews, and sprint ceremonies. • Champion product performance, uptime, and usability metrics; ensure measurable improvements. • Lead PoCs and innovation initiatives for predictive analytics, mobility enhancements, or workflow automation. • Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and industry standards used by transport and freight operators. • Supporting defect triage and sprint quality processes • Driving improvements in product quality metrics (test coverage, defect leakage, field issues) • Ensure high-quality product releases through clear acceptance criteria, test planning, and stakeholder validation. • Develop, document and execute maintainable test cases for functional, regression and integration testing     Qualification/ Requirement: • Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Computer Science, Electronics, IT) or related technical fields. • 6 to 10 years of total experience, with at least 3+ years in Product Management or Technical Product/Program roles. • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), cloud platforms, APIs, and microservices. • Experience with enterprise B2B or operational workflow products (transport, logistics, mobility preferred).  Essential Skills: • Ability to write highly detailed product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria. • Strong analytical ability to interpret operational data, field insights, and convert them into product improvements. • Comfort with modern SaaS technologies, REST APIs, event-driven systems, notifications, offline capabilities, etc. • Hands-on experience with agile tools: Rally, Confluence, Git/GitLab. • Strong technical understanding to collaborate with architects and development teams. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across business, engineering, and customers. • Ability to support secure development lifecycle practices and quality processes. • In-depth knowledge of quality engineering and testing methodologies • Experienced in developing and executing test strategies, test plans and test cases • Ability to learn fast and quickly diagnose potential software system issues    Desired Skills: • Understanding of mobile UX patterns, GPS/location-based workflows, and responsive design standards. • Familiarity with AWS architecture, microservices deployment, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes. • Experience with telemetry dashboards, KPIs, and release health monitoring. • Ability to drive cross-module initiatives such as modernization, platform migration, or UI/UX redesign. • Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities in complex technical environments. • Experience with rail, logistics, asset management, or domain-heavy operational systems. • Having experience on tech migration from one technology to another as part of tech stack upgrades to cater needs of product with evolving technologies. • Experienced on developing, deploying, and managing – microservices on cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure. • Someone who can advocate security in development of lifecycle and take measures to improve that. • Be a gatekeep to manage the branching strategy for the product on GitLab and work with DevOps to improve productivity.  Good to have: • Working knowledge of API-first or platform products. • Exposure to AI/ML-powered features such as anomaly detection or predictive maintenance. • Prior experience supporting global enterprise customers and multi-region SaaS deployments. • App Store Knowledge: Experience with submission and compliance requirements for Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and Microsoft Store • Native Development: Understanding of platform-specific capabilities and limitations • Security: Understanding mobile application security best practices  Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:   Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.      To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.   We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles… People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.