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Technical Product Manager Principal 1

DIRECTV


Job Location:

El Segundo, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 111122 - 201653
Posted: 29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Technical Product Manager - Principal 1 owns the end-to-end product strategy and technical vision for complex high-impact product lines or platforms driving alignment across multiple teams programs and business units. Serves as the authoritative voice on architecture-informed product decisions translating enterprise-level business strategy into a multi-quarter roadmap. Provides technical and strategic leadership across the organization mentoring senior product managers and influencing executive-level decision-making on product direction investment priorities and long-term platform evolution.

Heres what youll do:

  • Owns and evolves the long-term product vision and technical strategy for a major product line platform or portfolio ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and multi-year business strategy.
  • Architects and governs large-scale cross-program EPICs and initiatives proactively identifying systemic dependencies technical risks and organizational impacts across multiple teams and business units.
  • Leads planning and execution of multi-program-increment initiatives establishing the roadmap narrative that connects individual features to broader company strategy.
  • Partners directly with senior executives architects and cross-functional leaders to shape investment decisions prioritize competing initiatives and negotiate trade-offs at an organizational level.
  • Drives advanced business process modeling and re-engineering efforts (BPMN value stream mapping swimlanes) to identify systemic inefficiencies and design scalable future-state processes.
  • Establishes and enforces standards for requirements elicitation documentation and traceability across teams ensuring consistency and quality at scale.
  • Defines the framework for feature definition and prioritization ensuring capabilities map cleanly to strategic business outcomes and technical architecture.
  • Designs and governs the organizations approach to success metrics including adoption performance throughput and value realization and reports outcomes to senior leadership.
  • Mentors and coaches senior and mid-level product managers elevating team-wide product management maturity and technical acumen.
  • Acts as an escalation point for the most complex ambiguous or high-risk product and technical challenges providing solution-based direction with minimal oversight.
  • Represents the product organization in governance forums architecture review boards and executive planning sessions.

What youll need to do successful:

  • Bachelors degree in a relevant field required; advanced degree (MBA technical masters) preferred.
  • 3 5 years of relevant experience including significant experience operating at a strategic or enterprise level.
  • Recognized subject-matter expert in technical product management business process modeling and enterprise-scale product strategy.
  • Deep technical fluency with the ability to engage credibly with architects and engineering leadership on system design and technical trade-offs.
  • Proven track record of shaping multi-year roadmaps and influencing enterprise or organization-wide strategic decisions.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management skills including experience facilitating executive-level workshops and cross-organizational alignment sessions.
  • Advanced expertise in requirements traceability frameworks governance models and documentation standards at scale.
  • Deep expertise in defining tracking and reporting on success metrics tied to strategic business outcomes.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring and developing other product management professionals.

May require a background check due to job duties requiring routine access to DIRECTV and DIRECTV customers proprietary data. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction will be considered for employment in accordance with local ordinances and state law.

This is a remote position that can be located anywhere in the United States with the exception of Alaska. #LI-Remote

A career with us comes with big rewards:

DIRECTVs compensation structure is designed to be market-competitive and fully supports efforts to attract and retain employees. It is the companys policy to offer pay that is competitive with other employers in the local market. Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location.

The Base Salary range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salary for each of DIRECTVs 4 (four) US Labor Market Zones. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills experience and relevant education or training.

DIRECTV WAGE ZONES: $111122 - $201653

Low (N1): $111122 - $166583

Mid (N2): $116970 - $175350

High (N3): $128667 - $192885

Top (N4): $134516 - $201653

Click HERE to review information on some of the largest Designated Market Areas (DMAs). Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the salary ranges reflect base salary only and do not include bonus or benefits - when you consider all of these together it represents a pretty impressive total compensation package.

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