Technical Team Manager

🇺🇸 Remote - US 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $165K 💻 Project Management 🗓️ May 4th, 2026

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OverDrive is hiring a Technical Team Manager to lead and align technical teams with business and product priorities. The role involves managing work demand, clearing roadblocks, collaborating with product owners on priorities, and overseeing team performance and delivery.

Highlights

Align team work with business priorities and product roadmaps.
Collaborate closely with Product Owners to manage scope and deliverables.
Provide technical contributions while avoiding bottlenecks.
Evaluate team performance through one-on-one meetings and reviews.
Identify and address strategic technical debt with cost/benefit analysis.
Develop and recommend workflow and communication improvements.
Participate in leadership decisions supporting company mission and community initiatives.
Required skills include Swift, Kotlin, Brightscript, Cordova, Vue.js, and Nuxt.js.
Must have a Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field with 2 years managing technical teams.
Fully remote position with a salary of $164,670 per year, open to candidates anywhere in the U.S.

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Description

Position at OverDrive

Responsibilities:

Ensures that team aligns work with business priorities.
Works with technical lead and product owners to ensure staff alignment is appropriate to address work demand. Identifies and clears roadblocks for the team.
Makes technical contributions without becoming a bottleneck for the team.
Collaborates with the Product Owner to set team’s priorities.
Aligns the team’s work to Product Owner priorities and ensures efficient delivery.
Partners effectively with the Product Owner to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product roadmap.
Works with technical lead to evaluate individual performance.
Conducts regular one-on-one meetings and performance reviews.
Identifies single points of failure in alignment of people, knowledge, or systems, and works to resolve them.
Communicates timeline, scope, and technical concerns to upper management.
Collaborates with peers to deliver cross-team projects.
Identifies areas of strategic technical debt and provides cost/benefits analysis for eliminating this debt, as well as suggested timeline for how to prioritize it.
Develops, reviews, and recommends practices and methods to improve workflow, communication and collaboration for stakeholders.
Assists leadership with special projects.
As a member of the leadership team, demonstrates through decisions, actions, and words a commitment to OverDrive’s mission, sustainability, and community outreach initiatives.

Requirements:

Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.
2 years of experience in management leading technical teams.
Experience must include working with the following programming languages: Swift, Kotlin, Brightscript, Cordova, Vue.js, and Nuxt.js.

Fully remote position.

Salary: $164,670/year.

May work from any location in the U.S.

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