Technical Product Manager: Agile Backlog & Release Lead

Beep - Easy Carpool; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Beep is seeking a detail-oriented Technical Product Manager to bridge Product and Engineering. You will own the backlog, drive sprint planning, and manage releases to ensure timely delivery.

You will work hands-on in Jira, translate business needs into clear requirements, and guide the team through planning, execution, and deployment, aligning with the roadmap and technical direction. The role requires 2–5 years in a similar software role, Scrum certification, and strong communication to

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in a Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, or similar role within a software development environment.
• Strong working proficiency in Jira - comfortable configuring boards, workflows, and dashboards, not just creating tickets.
• Scrum certification (CSM, PSM, or equivalent) required.
• Technical fluency—you don’t need to write code, but you need to understand software development lifecycles, APIs, system architecture, and how engineering teams work.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a product roadmap and epic hierarchy, with experience aligning engineering work to higher-level product goals.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills; comfortable running ceremonies and navigating competing priorities between teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the product backlog in Jira - managing, refining, and prioritizing epics, features, and tasks in alignment with the product roadmap
• Manage the product roadmap and epic structure, ensuring epics are well-defined, sequenced, and traceable to business objectives
• Partner with Engineering to map user stories to epics and roadmap initiatives, maintaining alignment between product intent and development execution
• Facilitate backlog grooming sessions to keep the pipeline of work healthy and sprint-ready
• Drive sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Track sprint velocity, burndown, and team capacity to keep delivery predictable
• Remove blockers and elevate issues early to keep development on track
• Maintain accountability for Scrum ceremonies and Agile best practices
• Coordinate and manage the release process from development through staging to production
• Maintain release notes, changelogs, and version documentation
• Work with Engineering and QA to define release criteria and ensure quality gates are met before deployment
• Communicate release timelines, scope, and risks to stakeholders across the organization
• Create and maintain user-facing How-To guides and feature documentation to support adoption of new functionality across teams
• Serve as the primary bridge between Product and Engineering - ensuring both sides have shared context and aligned expectations
• Translate technical constraints and trade-offs into language Product and business stakeholders can act on
• Surface dependencies, risks, and scope changes proactively so decisions can be made early
• Partner with QA, DevOps, and other technical teams to ensure smooth end-to-end delivery

Skills

Jira proficiency

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder communication

Backlog management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

GitHub

Job description

Beep is seeking a detail-oriented Technical Product Manager to bridge Product and Engineering. You will own the backlog, drive sprint planning, and manage releases to ensure timely delivery.

You will work hands-on in Jira, translate business needs into clear requirements, and guide the team through planning, execution, and deployment, aligning with the roadmap and technical direction. The role requires 2–5 years in a similar software role, Scrum certification, and strong communication to