Job Description

Posting Context Statement
The University of Idaho’s Office of Information Technology is hiring a Technical Product Manager to lead a multi-year data modernization initiative. This role owns the work from the ground up, shaping architecture, governance, and adoption strategy for a scalable, governed, analytics-ready data platform. You will have direct visibility into executive leadership, real influence over institutional data strategy, and the opportunity to see your decisions drive outcomes in research, student success, and operations. If you are motivated by purpose-driven work, complex problems, and building something that lasts, we want to hear from you.
Position Overview
This position coordinates the planning, design, and development of software applications. This position is responsible for the success of a product or family of products. This position will work closely with cross-functional business leaders, peers and technology leadership to ensure systems are positioned for the growth of the university. This includes performing or supervising analysis, design, development, and testing, to ensure the deployment of reliable, secure, and scalable business-critical applications and platforms. The Technical Product Manager works in a collaborative environment with business and technology owners and fosters a culture of teamwork and support across the university and within the technology team.

This position is a blend of product and project leadership and will require partnering with cross functional teams to achieve high performance levels with application services and support the alignment of team activities with the university’s business needs.
Duties may include:
Understand and represent user needs
Define a vision and roadmap for a product
Align stakeholders around the vision for the product
Prioritize product features and capabilities
Manage a product backlog
Oversee development stages and evaluate progress
Serve as a liaison between department stakeholders and the Office of Information Technology development team
Collaborate across teams to empower independent decision-making
Administer applications
Provide high level reporting to departments across the university
Other duties as assigned

Unit URL
Join OIT | University of Idaho
Position Qualifications
Required Experience
Three years working with software applications in a technical or functional support role
Prioritizing work and ensuring projects and workloads are completed on time

Required Education
High School Diploma or equivalent

Required Other
None
Additional Preferred
Five or more years of experience working with software applications in a technical or functional leadership role
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management of Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field.
Agile Certification (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master or similar)
Experience with:
Cloud-based data lakehouse platforms (Databricks preferred), including workspace administration, Unity Catalog, and Delta Lake concepts
Data governance frameworks, stewardship models, and metadata management practices
Regulated data environments and applicable compliance requirements (FERPA, HIPAA, or similar)
ERP data structures in student, HR, or finance domains (Banner/Ellucian preferred)
BI platform connectivity and supporting analytical consumers (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
Data ingestion patterns, pipeline tooling, and warehousing concepts
Higher education technology environments, shared governance, and constituent-sensitive operations
Translating between technical platform capabilities and non-technical institutional audiences
Leading cross-functional initiatives with distributed stakeholders and competing priorities
Azure or other cloud environments