Lead Technical Product Manager, Platform

About Posh

Posh is a beacon guiding us back. Posh enables anyone to build an IRL community based on shared interests, while connecting consumers with the communities of people just like them. Founded by event organizers who were frustrated with the growing loneliness epidemic and the tools available to build their own event brand, we’ve built the ultimate platform for launching, monetizing, and finding IRL communities of people just like you. In just 6 years, Posh has grown to a team of 70, expanded to 8M+ users, secured $70m in venture funding, and facilitated over $400M in transactions.

About The Role

Startups are defined by their feature set. Generational platforms are defined by their reliability and ability to scale. As the team grows from 24 to 40 engineers by EOY and the platform scales past 10m users, powering events with up to 20k attendees, our infrastructure is rapidly becoming one of the most important determinants of our success. As our founding Technical Product Manager, you'll partner directly with our R&D leadership team and work across product, data, and engineering to shape the roadmap, architect the team, and own execution of our most complex technical problems with one goal in mind: make Posh the most scalable and reliable events platform to ever exist.

Your Work Will Span Across 2 Core Teams:

• Platform: Owning observability/incident response, backend services, notifications, authentication/permission systems, localization, and experimentation infrastructure to optimize reliability and empower user-facing teams to create novel technical innovations
• Internal Operations: building digital tools that help GTM, marketing, finance, and operations accelerate their goals

This role reports to the CEO, working in lockstep with the entire leadership team to ruthlessly prioritize projects, allocate resources, and accelerate velocity. This is an in-person position at our SoHo NYC office, 5 days a week.

Who You Are

• 2+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally on marketplace infrastructure, payments, distributed systems, or developer platforms followed by 4+ years as a Technical Product Manager or Platform Product Manager.
• You know what world-class infrastructure looks like because you've built it.
• A track record of being the person engineers want in the room during design reviews. You can read an RFC, push back on a data model, ask the right questions about scaling assumptions, and add real signal in architecture conversations.
• Strong fluency in system design, payments architecture, and cloud infrastructure. You don't need to write production code, but you should be one technical conversation away from doing so if you wanted to.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional programs across multiple engineering teams — defining scope, surfacing risk early, managing dependencies, and shipping on time with minimal oversight.
• Excellent written communication. You can take a tangled technical problem, write a one-page memo that an exec or a non-technical stakeholder can act on, and write a separate technical spec that engineers can build from.
• A bias toward urgency and ownership. You don't wait to be told what the priority is — you propose it, defend it, and revise it as the data changes.
• You have high EQ, holding a battle-tested perspective on what it takes to build trust and collaborate effectively.

Nice to Have

• Background owning internal tooling as a product surface, with measurable wins on non-technical team velocity and operational efficiency.
• Experience owning and optimizing on-call practices and incident response programs.
• You’re deeply passionate about the value of in-person connection, with a personal connection to IRL events and/or communities that mean something to you.