QTS Realty Trust

Technology Product Lead

QTS Realty Trust$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in product management or leadership roles
  • Proven ability to drive outcomes and value realization
  • Experience making tradeoffs in complex multi-stakeholder environments
  • Ability to translate business needs into product capabilities
  • Experience navigating multiple interconnected systems and platforms
  • Close collaboration with engineering and architecture teams
  • Comfort in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach
  • Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

  • Define product vision and prioritize outcomes aligned with business goals
  • Shape product strategy and roadmaps based on organizational objectives
  • Own and refine product backlogs to maintain clear alignment with outcomes
  • Lead collaboration with engineering to ensure effective solution delivery
  • Communicate progress, tradeoffs, and outcomes to stakeholders
  • Track and analyze KPIs to validate product effectiveness and inform strategy
  • Engage in product ceremonies to foster team alignment and progress

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Generous paid time off and holidays
  • Paid volunteer days to support community service
  • Tuition assistance for ongoing education
  • Parenting leave support and military leave assistance
  • Wellness programs and resources for employee health
Full Job Description
What You'll Own

Product Leads are anchored to one or more capability-aligned product areas, such as:
  • Core Transaction Platforms
  • Commercial Enablement
  • Enterprise Data & Intelligence
  • Developer & Platform Enablement
  • Trust, risk, and compliance


While each Product Lead is assigned to a specific area, the scope is intentionally designed to evolve from platform stewardship toward outcome and value-driven ownership over time.

Role Mandate

As a Product Lead, you are accountable for:
  • Defining what should be built and why
  • Making priority and scope tradeoffs within defined investment guardrails
  • Owning product outcomes, not just delivery
  • Ensuring clarity and continuity from strategy through execution

This role blends strategic thinking with hands-on product work. Product Leads are expected to move fluidly between defining outcomes, shaping work, and partnering with delivery teams to ensure intent is clearly understood and executed.

What You'll Do

Product Vision, Strategy & Outcomes
  • Shape and evolve product vision and roadmaps aligned to organizational goals and technology strategy
  • Translate business objectives into clear product outcomes, hypotheses, and success measures
  • Align platform capabilities to KPI oriented outcomes such as scalability, reliability, automation, efficiency, and risk reduction
  • Advocate for investments that measurably improve productivity and operational effectiveness
  • Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term strategic outcomes


Hands-On Product Ownership & Execution
  • Own product backlogs end-to-end, ensuring work is clearly defined, sequenced, and aligned to outcomes
  • Write and refine epics, features, and user stories as needed - especially for complex, high-impact, or ambiguous work
  • Lead backlog building and ongoing refinement to maintain a healthy, outcome-oriented pipeline of work
  • Partner closely with engineering and architecture to shape solutions, identify dependencies, and surface risks early
  • Validate usefulness and impact of delivered capabilities with internal users and stakeholders


Leadership, Decision-Making & Collaboration
  • Serve as the primary decision-maker for prioritization, sequencing, and scope within your product area
  • Foster collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across cross-functional teams
  • Empower teams with clarity of intent while allowing flexibility in how work is delivered
  • Make informed decisions under ambiguity, time pressure, or incomplete information
  • Actively remove obstacles to progress and value delivery


Ceremonies, Cadence & Flow
  • Lead or actively participate in key product-focused ceremonies, including backlog refinement and product planning
  • Ensure shared understanding of priorities, intent, and success criteria across teams
  • Partner with delivery leaders to support agile ways of working without becoming process-bound
  • Adjust focus and level of involvement as products, teams, and maturity evolve


Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
  • Act as the primary liaison between engineering, architecture, business partners, and leadership
  • Communicate priorities, progress, tradeoffs, and outcomes clearly and consistently
  • Maintain transparency to build trust and alignment across teams and departments
  • Continuously gather feedback and pain points to inform roadmap and backlog decisions


Metrics, Learning & Value Realization
  • Define and track KPIs tied to efficiency, performance, reliability, and business impact
  • Use data and analytics to inform prioritization and validate hypotheses
  • Monitor adoption and outcomes of delivered capabilities
  • Translate results and learning into roadmap and backlog adjustments


Basic Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of experience in product management, product leadership, or related roles
  • Demonstrated ability to own outcomes and value realization, not just delivery or backlog management
  • Proven experience making priority and scope tradeoffs in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
  • Experience operating in highly cross-functional domains, translating business and operational needs into product capabilities
  • Demonstrated ability to work across multiple interconnected systems and platforms, driving clarity in complex environments
  • Experience partnering closely with engineering, architecture, and operational stakeholders
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments while maintaining forward progress
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset
  • Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences


Preferred Skills:
  • Experience working with or adjacent to platforms that support large-scale infrastructure delivery and operations is highly valuable, including:
    • Construction & Project Lifecycle Management: eBuilder, Procore, Primavera P6, Oracle Aconex
    • ERP & Financial Systems: Oracle Fusion, Workday Financials, capital project accounting systems
    • Asset, Capacity & Infrastructure Management: ServiceNow, asset lifecycle platforms, capacity planning tools
    • Data & Integration Platforms: Snowflake, enterprise data platforms, API/integration layers (e.g., MuleSoft)
    • Operational & Monitoring Systems: telemetry platforms, infrastructure monitoring, or DCIM-adjacent solutions
  • Experience in organizations transitioning from project-centric to product-centric models
  • Familiarity with agile and lean product practices in enterprise environments


TOTAL REWARDS
  • This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending and HSA accounts; paid holidays; paid time off; paid volunteer days; employee assistance program; tuition assistance; parental leave; military leave assistance; QTS scholarship for dependents; wellness program, and other company benefits.
  • This position is bonus eligible.

About QTS Realty Trust

QTS is the digital infrastructure leader – Powered by People, driven by purpose and fueled by a spirit of innovation. We have a 20-year track record of designing, building and operating world-class data centers, delivering the critical infrastructure for the world’s largest and fastest-growing companies. We have more than 75 data centers in operation or under development across the United States and Europe.
Learn more about QTS Realty Trust
Size
82,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$15.9 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+11.6%
Revenue
$539.3 million
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