Technical Product Manager

The Real Deal is hiring a Technical Product Manager to help us plan, organize, QA, and ship work across our digital publishing platform. You’ll partner with a small team of developers, including a senior engineer, and help bridge the gap between business needs and execution—making sure the right work gets done, the right way, and on time.

What You’ll Do

Organize & Prioritize Work

Maintain a clean backlog of prioritized, scoped, and assigned tickets

Translate cross-departmental requests into actionable technical tasks

Collaborate with the senior developer on sprint planning and capacity management

Ensure developers always have clear, well-defined work in the pipeline

Manage QA & Delivery

Define test cases and coordinate QA for new features and fixes

Triage bugs and edge cases, verify fixes, and drive follow-up

Ensure the quality of everything that ships—working closely with developers and stakeholders

Bridge Teams

Gather requirements from sales, editorial, marketing, and subscriptions

Clarify priorities and provide updates to stakeholders on status and delivery

Help ensure that campaign, revenue, and platform-critical needs are accounted for in planning

Improve Processes

Help improve sprint rituals, ticket standards, QA workflows, and roadmap hygiene

Support platform maintenance, tech debt tracking, and documentation

Suggest improvements to internal systems or workflows—technical or operational

You Might Be a Fit If You Have…

3–6 years in product management, technical project management, or product ops

Experience working with developers and writing technical tickets

Familiarity with QA processes and release planning

A collaborative, detail-oriented, and unflappable working style

Some technical literacy (HTML, JS, Python, APIs, CMSs)—enough to ask the right questions and understand tradeoffs

Bonus Points For

Exposure to publishing, subscriptions, ad campaigns, or digital media platforms

Experience in a startup or lean team environment

Familiarity with tools like Linear, Notion, Slack, GitHub, Figma

Basic coding skills, scripting experience, or a past life as a developer

Why This Role Matters

We’re a small team with a big surface area—covering editorial tools, SEO, subscriptions, email, internal dashboards, sales integrations, and more. To keep the business moving, we need someone who can turn priorities into deliverables , support our developers, and help us scale our execution without dropping balls or burning out.

$120,000 - $160,000 a year

Who We Are:

The Real Deal is the largest real-estate news outlet in the US, reaching millions of professionals daily through our media channels. We have received 60+ awards for editorial excellence over the past six years, including the General Excellence award from the Society of Business Writers and Editors.

Quantcast rates us among the 300-most visited sites in the US and the website with the wealthiest audience and one of the most educated.

As a publication, The Real Deal is to real estate what Variety is to entertainment or what Politico is to Beltway politics – a plugged-in news outlet that is read by the entire industry.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We partner with our employees to support diversity and inclusion in the workplace and through higher education programs supporting rising journalists.