Technical Product Manager

About RevolutionPartsRevolutionParts powers eCommerce for automotive dealers, brands, and aftermarket sellers — enabling them to sell parts and accessories online through a modern, scalable platform. We're growing our marketplace, B2B, and AI-powered shopping capabilities, and we're looking for a Technical Product Manager to help us build a faster, more reliable, and more discoverable platform.About the RoleWe're hiring a Technical Product Manager to own our platform performance, search, and reliability roadmap. This is a highly technical, cross-functional role: you'll partner directly with engineering to make architecture and prioritization tradeoffs, translate infrastructure investment into business impact, and drive measurable improvements in site speed, search relevance, and platform <stability.You>'ll be the product owner for the technical backbone of our platform — the areas that determine whether customers can find what they need and whether the site is fast and reliable enough to convert them.This role determines what gets built and why, not how — the team you'll be partnering with is made up of staff, principal, and senior engineers who own implementation and architecture decisions. Your job is to define needs clearly enough that they don't have to guess, push back with technically grounded questions on performance and scalability tradeoffs, and hold the line on non-functional requirements before an engineer flags them as gaps after the fact.Location: This is a hybrid position based in Tempe, Arizona, requiring two days per week on-site (currently Tuesday and Thursday) with the flexibility to work the remaining days remotely.What You'll DoOwn the product roadmap for platform health, search relevance, and site performance/latency, and prioritize it against feature roadmapsPartner with engineering on architecture and technical tradeoff decisions, bringing product judgment to complex infrastructure and search initiativesIn postmortems, help distinguish whether an incident stemmed from a missing or poorly defined non-functional requirement versus an engineering execution issue or a known technical limitationDefine and track performance and search metrics (page speed, search relevance, uptime, conversion impact) and connect them to business outcomesTranslate technical constraints and platform debt into clear, business-readable priorities for leadership and stakeholdersDrive discovery and requirements for search and platform improvements, working with data/analytics to validate impactManage cross-functional dependencies between engineering, data, and other product teams on shared infrastructureWhat Success Looks LikeMeasurable improvement in site performance (page load time, Core Web Vitals)Improved search conversion and relevanceReduced platform incidents and a prioritized, actively executing roadmap for platform debt and reliabilityMust-Haves5+ years of PM experience partnering directly with engineering on platform, infrastructure, or search initiatives5+ years of professional engineering experience having worked as a software engineer writing and shipping production code - not solely in an adjacent technical role.Demonstrated experience owning a technical roadmap against measurable KPIs (latency, uptime, conversion, etc.)Comfort in defining both functional and non-functional requirements for a team whose work, at times, may be heavily backend or hidden away from the UIComfortable pulling and validating your own data without the use of a UI (via REST APIs and database queries)Familiarity with observability tools like DataDogExperience prioritizing platform/technical debt against feature workeCommerce or high-traffic web platform experience is a plus!Nice-to-HavesExperience with search/relevance systems (indexing, ranking, auto-suggest) - ideally with Elasticsearch or a comparable engineExposure to marketplace, multi-seller, or B2B platformsExperience navigating cloud cost/performance tradeoffs, particularly on AWSBackground in automotive, parts, or high-growth eCommerceDirect experience with relational databases at scale (e.g. Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL), container orchestration (e.g. EKS/Kubernetes), and asynchronous messaging systems (e.g. queues, pub/sub)Ideal SkillsTechnicalWeb performance fundamentals (Core Web Vitals, caching/CDN strategy)Understanding of search/relevance systems and how they drive conversionAbility to read architecture diagrams and API specsComfortable reading a pull request or codebase to understand behavior, without needing to write production code day-to-daySQL and REST API proficiency for independent data analysisFamiliarity with observability/monitoring tools for SLAs and performance tracking (e.g. Datadog), ideally in AWS-based environmentsAbility to write technical tickets defining both functional and non-functional requirements and define use cases that may be purely technical in natureIn incident and postmortem discussions, able to ask technically grounded root-cause questions and determine whether the issue traces to a requirements gap (e.g. unspecified non-functional requirement) or a known technical constraint — always tying findings back to customer impactSoft SkillsAble to translate fluently in both directions — business needs into technical specs, and technical tradeoffs into business terms non-technical stakeholders can act onComfortable pushing back on engineering with data, not just deferringCredible enough with staff/principal-level engineers to ask pointed technical questions and hold your ground, without needing to propose the solution yourselfBias toward measurable outcomes over feature outputStrong cross-functional influence without direct authorityCalm under ambiguity — platform and infrastructure work often lacks clean requirementsEducationBachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent practical experienceAI Fluency & Modern ToolingAt RevolutionParts, we expect team members to actively use modern tools — including AI-powered systems — to improve decision-making, productivity, and quality of work.This includes:Using AI tools responsibly to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, and problem-solvingExercising strong judgment around data privacy, accuracy, and ethical useContinuously learning and adapting as AI capabilities evolveProven examples of using AI to improve outcomes in prior roles is expected.RevolutionParts is proud to provide all full-time Revolutionaries with a comprehensive employment package including competitive compensation, career development, benefits, 401K match, parental leave, and many more valuable perks. You can learn more about our core-value driven culture at our career page. RevolutionParts is an Equal Opportunity Employer; we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender orientation, gender identity or expression, sexual identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status, genetic information, veteran status, or disability status.Please Note: You will only receive correspondence through the Gem ATS or from a @revolutionparts.com email address. If you are receiving communication through any other platform or domain, it may be fraudulent, and we urge you to ignore the communication.