Technical Product Manager

Technical Product Manager, Geospatial API Platform

What you will do in the first 6 months

• Work with the CTO and engineering team to define the product scope, MVP, and first delivery milestones.
• Translate business and technical goals into clear product requirements.
• Write user stories, acceptance criteria, product briefs, and technical product documentation.
• Help define the first use cases for the geospatial API platform.
• Support roadmap planning and prioritization across engineering and leadership.
• Coordinate with engineers to track delivery progress, clarify requirements, and unblock decisions.
• Research relevant users, market needs, competitors, and geospatial product patterns.
• Help define product flows, API behavior, edge cases, and expected user outcomes.
• Prepare internal updates, demos, and product summaries for stakeholders.
• Build a lightweight product process that supports fast execution without slowing down engineering.
• What you bring
• 3–6 years of experience in product management, technical product management, product ownership, business analysis, or a similar software product role.
• Experience working on technical software products, ideally APIs, platforms, data tools, B2B SaaS, backend systems, or developer-facing products.
• Strong ability to write clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation.
• Comfortable working closely with engineers and discussing technical tradeoffs.
• Basic understanding of APIs, databases, backend systems, and software delivery.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage priorities, follow up on open items, and keep product delivery organized.
• Comfortable working in a small team where structure is still being built.
• Preferred experience
• Exposure to geospatial products, GIS, maps, routing, logistics, mobility, real estate tech, or location-based platforms.
• Familiarity with tools or concepts such as PostGIS, Mapbox, Google Maps Platform, ArcGIS, QGIS, OpenStreetMap, geocoding, routing, coordinates, or spatial data.
• Experience with data-heavy products, analytics platforms, AI products, or infrastructure tools.
• Experience working in startups or early-stage product environments.
• Experience using Jira, Linear, Notion, Confluence, Figma, Postman, or similar tools.
• What this is not
• This is not an Engineering Lead role.
• This is not a role focused on writing production Python code.
• This is not a role responsible for backend architecture or PostgreSQL optimization.
• This is not a Head of Product role with a large team and mature product function already in place.
• This is not a pure project coordination role with no product ownership.
• This is not a role for someone who needs every requirement handed to them fully formed.

Why join

• **Technical product from the ground up:**
• Help shape a geospatial API platform from its early stages.
• **High-caliber engineering environment:**
• Work directly with a technical team building complex backend and data systems.
• **Real ownership:**
• Define requirements, structure the roadmap, and help create the product process.
• **Applied AI and data expertise:**
• Join a company with experience deploying high-volume decision systems for enterprise clients.
• **Growth path:**
• As the product develops, the role can grow into broader product ownership across platform, data, or AI-driven products.