Technical Product Manager

ABOUT REVOLUTIONPARTS

RevolutionParts 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 ROLE

We'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 DO

* Own the product roadmap for platform health, search relevance, and site

performance/latency, and prioritize it against feature roadmaps

* Partner with engineering on architecture and technical tradeoff decisions,

bringing product judgment to complex infrastructure and search initiatives

* In 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 limitation

* Define and track performance and search metrics (page speed, search

relevance, uptime, conversion impact) and connect them to business outcomes

* Translate technical constraints and platform debt into clear,

business-readable priorities for leadership and stakeholders

* Drive discovery and requirements for search and platform improvements,

working with data/analytics to validate impact

* Manage cross-functional dependencies between engineering, data, and other

product teams on shared infrastructure

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

* Measurable improvement in site performance (page load time, Core Web Vitals)

* Improved search conversion and relevance

* Reduced platform incidents and a prioritized, actively executing roadmap for

platform debt and reliability

MUST-HAVES

* 5+ years of PM experience partnering directly with engineering on platform,

infrastructure, or search initiatives

* 5+ 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 UI

* Comfortable pulling and validating your own data without the use of a UI (via

REST APIs and database queries)

* Familiarity with observability tools like DataDog

* Experience prioritizing platform/technical debt against feature work

* eCommerce or high-traffic web platform experience is a plus!

NICE-TO-HAVES

* Experience with search/relevance systems (indexing, ranking, auto-suggest) -

ideally with Elasticsearch or a comparable engine

* Exposure to marketplace, multi-seller, or B2B platforms

* Experience navigating cloud cost/performance tradeoffs, particularly on AWS

* Background in automotive, parts, or high-growth eCommerce

* Direct 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 SKILLS

Technical

* Web performance fundamentals (Core Web Vitals, caching/CDN strategy)

* Understanding of search/relevance systems and how they drive conversion

* Ability to read architecture diagrams and API specs

* Comfortable reading a pull request or codebase to understand behavior,

without needing to write production code day-to-day

* SQL and REST API proficiency for independent data analysis

* Familiarity with observability/monitoring tools for SLAs and performance

tracking (e.g. Datadog), ideally in AWS-based environments

* Ability to write technical tickets defining both functional and

non-functional requirements and define use cases that may be purely technical

in nature

* In 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 impact

Soft Skills

* Able to translate fluently in both directions — business needs into technical

specs, and technical tradeoffs into business terms non-technical stakeholders

can act on

* Comfortable pushing back on engineering with data, not just deferring

* Credible enough with staff/principal-level engineers to ask pointed technical

questions and hold your ground, without needing to propose the solution

yourself

* Bias toward measurable outcomes over feature output

* Strong cross-functional influence without direct authority

* Calm under ambiguity — platform and infrastructure work often lacks clean

requirements

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering) or

equivalent practical experience

AI Fluency & Modern Tooling

At 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-solving

* Exercising strong judgment around data privacy, accuracy, and ethical use

* Continuously learning and adapting as AI capabilities evolve

Proven examples of using AI to improve outcomes in prior roles is expected.

Are you not sure you meet 100% of the qualifications? You should still give it a

shot! Research shows that men will apply to a job when only meeting 60% of the

requirements, whereas women and members of other underrepresented groups

typically only apply when they meet every single requirement. At Revolution

Parts, we are Revolutionaries. We build tools, products, and our people. We

value diversity in backgrounds and thoughts, so take a shot and apply! Please

highlight some of your accomplishments in your resume and cover letter so we can

talk about how you can grow with us.

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.