Technical Program / Product Manager (TPM)

The role

A Technical Program Manager will turn company priorities into scoped engineering programs. You will work with Engineering, Product, Design, CX, Operations, Legal, and leadership to manage workstreams, dependencies, and risks.

What you will do

• Turn ambiguous ML, engineering, and product priorities into scoped, sequenced work.
• Write specs and scoping docs regarding tradeoffs like training data quality, inference latency, retraining cadence, and infra cost.
• Run the cadence including standups, sprint planning, and model review syncs.
• Give exec a weekly read on what shipped, what is at risk, and what decisions are needed.
• Catch drift early regarding model performance, data quality issues, or deployment gaps.

Required qualifications

• Experience as a Technical Program Manager, Program Manager, Product Manager, or similar role supporting a software engineering organization.
• Technical fluency to understand APIs, data models, system integrations, cloud infrastructure, release processes, and software dependencies.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities and requirements can change.
• Excellent attention to detail around ownership, dependencies, timelines, and unresolved decisions.
• An AI-native working style using tools to accelerate research, documentation, meeting synthesis, backlog management, and status reporting.

Nice to have

• Prior experience at an early-stage startup with no existing PM function to inherit.
• Familiarity with mobile and web release processes, feature flags, staged rollouts, and production monitoring.
• Experience supporting infrastructure, security, data, or machine learning initiatives.
• Comfort reading SQL, logs, dashboards, or technical documentation to validate a claim independently.
• Familiarity with tools such as Linear, Notion, GitHub, Datadog, and Slack.

Benefits

• Top Of The Market Compensation For Top Performers
• Comprehensive Health, Dental, And Vision Benefits Plan
• $1,500 One-Time Setup + $500/Year Annual Learning & Home-Office Stipend
• $1,500 Annual Wellness Stipend
• Free Lunch Provided In Office Daily + $250/Month Stipend For Your WFH Days
• Fully Remote In The Winter
• $150/Month Commuter Benefits
• Parental Leave
• 20 Annual PTO Days + Unlimited Sick Days
• Annual Company Retreat
• In-Office Amenities

About the company

Bree is a consumer finance platform that brings financial services to the Canadian population. They were part of Y Combinator in 2021.