Portfolio Product Lead & Remote Tech CTO

Plan Left; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Plan Left is seeking a highly capable Product Manager who can lead a remote team while performing hands-on product work. You will own quality and direction for new products across a portfolio, with about 5 hours per week supporting our digital marketing agency’s technical needs.

Work spans TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS, and mobile app releases. You will bridge business ideas and technical specs, manage backlogs, and oversee App Store and Google Play submissions.

Qualifications

• Proven Engineering Leadership: 5+ years of experience managing remote software engineering teams, running agile sprint cycles, and actively driving hiring strategies.
• Deep Coding Expertise: 10+ years of hands-on full-stack development (React, TypeScript, Node.js, Supabase/PostgreSQL).
• AI-Augmented Workflow Competency: Active, practical experience using AI code creation or agent tools to speed up prototyping and delivery workflows.
• Product Mindset: Strong UI/UX awareness, product intuition, and the ability to think like a tech founder.
• Communication: Exceptional English communication skills, written and verbal, with a proven ability to coordinate effectively with international startup teams and founders.
• A Tester's Eye: You find bugs other people miss, and you write down how to reproduce them so a developer can fix them fast.
• Spec and Backlog Skills: You turn a rough product idea into a clear spec and a prioritized backlog.
• Platform Familiarity: Experience with AWS and with getting a mobile app through App Store and Google Play review.
• Industry Experience: Experience working on SaaS or marketing technology products.
• Cross-Platform Mobile: React Native, Capacitor, or another way to ship one codebase to both app stores.
• Startup Technical Leadership: Experience as a fractional CTO, agency tech lead, or startup technical founder.
• AI Builder Handoffs: Experience moving a product from an AI app builder into a production codebase.
• Marketing Technology: Familiarity with analytics, tag management, and CRM integrations.

Responsibilities

• Testing: write test cases from acceptance criteria, test on web and real iOS/Android devices, sign off releases when quality is met.
• Product Ownership: end-to-end ownership for new features, manage backlog, submissions and release schedules for mobile apps.
• Rapid AI Prototyping: direct AI-assisted workflows to prototype features and hand off to production codebase.
• Hands-on Architecture and Code Review: perform technical reviews and refine code when AI tools fall short.
• Team Leadership and Construction: hire, structure, mentor remote teams, and set high technical standards.
• Interview Stakeholders and Team: translate feedback into backlog items and clear requirements.
• Agency Support: handle AWS accounts, hosting, and technical needs for client projects (~5 hours/week).

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Full-stack Dev

AI Augmented Workflow

Product Mindset

English Communication

Bug Detection

Spec & Backlog

AWS & App Store

SaaS Marketing Tech

Cross-Platform Mobile

Startup Technical Leadership

AI Builder Handoffs

Marketing Analytics

Tools

Lovable

Cursor

Windsurf

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Job description

Plan Left is seeking a highly capable Product Manager who can lead a remote team while performing hands-on product work. You will own quality and direction for new products across a portfolio, with about 5 hours per week supporting our digital marketing agency’s technical needs.

Work spans TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS, and mobile app releases. You will bridge business ideas and technical specs, manage backlogs, and oversee App Store and Google Play submissions.