Technical Product Manager

Pearl is a mission-driven Certified B Corp building the first national home performance rating system and registry for U.S. homes - like a FICO score for homes. Our platform makes the invisible qualities of a home - its safety, comfort, resilience, and energy - visible, measurable, and financially valuable.

• 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.

• 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.
• No deep UX expertise required, but curiosity about how backend decisions shape end-user experience is a plus.
• Alignment with Pearl's mission and values.