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.
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