Technical Product Manager

Pearl is a mission-driven Certified B Corp building a national home performance rating system for U.S. homes. The Technical Product Manager will own the backend and API product surface, working closely with engineering teams to shape, plan, and deliver systems that power Pearl's platform.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product roadmap for Pearl's backend systems, API layer, and data pipelines
• Define requirements and acceptance criteria for backend initiatives in close collaboration with engineering & product
• Maintain a deep understanding of how backend and data layer changes ripple through to consumer and partner-facing products
• Identify and articulate downstream product impact when APIs, data models, or pipeline logic evolves
• Serve as the primary product partner for Pearl's backend engineering teams, including offshore teams
• Run structured planning and communication rhythms with offshore engineers, clear briefs, async documentation, detailed technical tickets and regular check-ins
• Help engineering teams stay unblocked by resolving ambiguity, making scoping decisions, and escalating the right tradeoffs
• Translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders so that backend work is understood and trusted across the organization
• Lead release planning for backend and data pipeline initiatives, coordinating timelines, dependencies, and deployment readiness
• Own the product tasks that surround deployments: release notes, internal communication, rollback planning, and post-deploy validation
• Maintain a clear view of what is in flight, what is coming, and what is at risk
• Take ownership of quality control across backend product deliverables - not just shipping, but shipping well
• Drive new initiatives from problem definition through delivery, maintaining momentum and accountability
• Proactively flag risks and quality gaps, and work with engineering to resolve them before they become incidents
• Take pride in that most initiatives on the roadmap have a dependency on the BE running smoothly and have a drive to deliver
• Act as a visible, communicative presence across the engineering and product organization
• Write clearly requirements docs, release summaries, decision logs, and stakeholder updates
• Enjoy being the person who brings clarity and context to the room, whether that's a planning meeting or a Slack thread

Requirements:

• 3–5 years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent on backend, API, or data platform products
• Hands-on familiarity with backend engineering workflows - you understand how APIs are built and versioned, what data pipelines involve, and what makes deployments risky or smooth
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with engineering teams, including distributed or offshore teams
• Strong written communication skills - you can write requirements, release plans, and stakeholder updates that people actually read and act on
• Product sense: you can reason about how a change deep in the stack will affect the products built on top of it
• Experience owning release planning and deployment coordination for backend or infrastructure products
• Comfortable driving new projects from scratch and taking ownership of quality outcomes, not just delivery timelines
• Alignment with Pearl's mission and values
• No deep UX expertise required, but curiosity about how backend decisions shape end-user experience is a plus