Technical Product Manager

About The Keep

Your base of operations for tabletop gaming. From home tables to conventions, The Keep brings event discovery, game scheduling and coordination, and community connection together. Everything you need to play more games in real life.

• Find Your Next Adventure. Discover conventions, store events, and local games near you.
• Manage Your Home Games. Make scheduling and organizing your home table easier.
• Stay Connected. Stay in touch with the players and GMs you meet along the way.

The Engagement

You own delivery for The Keep. You turn product direction into shipped software on a predictable cadence, scoping work with engineers, breaking features into buildable pieces, and making sure things actually get done. Predict, deliver, measure, repeat.

Outcomes You'll Deliver

• Technical specifications and acceptance criteria translated from user stories, ready for engineering pickup
• A delivery cadence the team can plan against, iteration planning artifacts, sync notes, and retrospective outputs produced on the rhythm you and the team agree to
• Scope, sequencing, and tradeoff recommendations to Product and Engineering
• Verified releases, acceptance criteria checked, edge cases surfaced, release notes published
• A backlog that stays groomed, estimated, and ready for delivery
• Production-readiness coordination for releases within scope

Additional Deliverables

• Configured and maintained Amplitude implementation for product analytics and event tracking
• UAT cycles (automated and otherwise) and bug triage outputs
• Maintained platform datasets and data quality within scope
• Technical implementation paths translated from product requirements

You're a Fit If You

• Can turn fuzzy requirements into specs engineers actually want to build from
• Get satisfaction from a clean backlog and a steady shipping cadence
• Can talk technical with engineers without writing the code yourself
• Know when to push back on scope or sequencing and when to find a way to make it work
• Have taken software from "we have a good idea" to "our users love that idea" and know what that actually takes

Our Stack

• Front-end: ReactJS, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind
• Back-end: Go, Serverless and Containerized microservices, AWS, NoSQL
• Infrastructure: 100% IaC-managed Event-Driven Architecture atop Apache Kafka
• You don't need to write code. You need to understand how the pieces fit and have opinions about tradeoffs.

Experience

• 4+ years as a TPM, Technical PM, or delivery-focused PM
• You've written specs engineers actually liked and could ship
• Agile experience that goes beyond ceremonies and dogma
• You've shipped with small teams under ambiguity
• Comfortable in code reviews, PRs, and technical docs

Bonus Points

• Serverless or event-driven architecture experience
• Web and mobile delivery
• You play tabletop games (if you've ever built a spreadsheet to track initiative or automated your character sheet, you'll fit right in)
• Startup experience, seasoned navigator of ambiguity

Engagement Terms

• Classification: Independent Contractor (1099). Contractor is responsible for own taxes, insurance, equipment, and benefits.
• Term: Fixed initial term of 6 months. Renewal by mutual written agreement; not automatic.

The Keep does not discriminate in contractor engagement decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.