How Consortia recruits technical product managers
We recruit technical product managers and technical product owners, including platform and API product managers, on permanent and contract terms. The titles are used loosely. A technical product manager usually decides what a technical product should do and why. A technical product owner sits closer to delivery, often leading one or two development teams and turning business requirements into work engineers can build.
The word technical means different things to different clients. Some clients need a former engineer who can go deep on architecture. Others need a strong product manager who is comfortable with technical teams. The two pools are quite different, so we agree which one before the search starts.
Then we match on the kind of system. Running a product on a large legacy platform is different work from building a new API or sitting inside a data engineering team. We look for people who have worked on something similar, and ask what they decided and what the engineers decided.
We test how deep the technical knowledge goes. Can someone talk through a trade-off with an architect, challenge an estimate and manage dependencies between teams, then make the case for the customer in the same meeting? Client interviews for these roles often include engineers, so we prepare candidates for that conversation.
For contract roles we check availability, notice period and day rate on the first call, because timing often decides who can be considered. We recruit technical product managers across the UK, Europe, the US and the UAE.
