Technical Product Manager

Technical Product Manager

Level: Mid–Senior • Location: Netherlands (Remote-friendly) • Working Hours: Full-time • Reporting to: CEO

About UpScrolled

UpScrolled is an independent social media platform built on a simple idea: people should control what they see, say, and share online.

We exist because we were tired of social media that treats people like products. So we’re building the alternative: a platform where your data stays yours, your voice actually reaches your followers, and your feed belongs to you, not an algorithm.

We’re a small, fast-moving team with a big mission and a community of millions of UpScrollers who joined because they were done waiting for someone else to fix social media. We need people who care about that as much as we do. Come scroll differently with us.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Technical Product Manager to join a small team where product ownership goes beyond roadmap and specs. You’ll shape how people experience content, community, and connection on a platform built to do social media differently - and you’ll work close enough to engineering to make those decisions technically sound and shippable.

You’ve shipped product in a fast-moving environment and know how to balance user needs, business priorities, and engineering constraints without losing momentum. You don’t need a large team or a fully defined process to be effective. You create clarity where there isn’t any, stay dynamic when priorities shift, and roll up your sleeves on the operational work that keeps a small team shipping - including translating the roadmap into prioritized tickets and keeping delivery organized.

Location

UpScrolled maintains an office in Amsterdam, but this role can be fully remote. We prefer candidates who can work overlapping Central European time (CET/CEST), since that’s when most of the team collaborates.

What You’ll Do

• Own the product roadmap and prioritize ruthlessly against business and user needs
• Work closely with engineering and design to define, scope, and ship features
• Translate product goals into clear requirements and prioritized, actionable tickets
• Partner with engineering on feasibility, technical tradeoffs, and when to invest in tech debt vs new capability
• Turn user feedback and data into product decisions that account for system constraints
• Define and track the metrics that tell you whether what you shipped actually worked
• Represent the user in every product decision without losing sight of the business
• Help manage engineering work: ticket quality, task organization, and a backlog the team can execute from
• Run sprint ceremonies and keep the team aligned on what’s in flight, blocked, and next
• Use our analytics platform daily to uncover insights, monitor product health, and drive the metrics that matter
• Partner with the CEO and Head of Engineering on priorities, follow-ups, and other work that keeps the product and team moving

What Success Looks Like

• A clear roadmap is in place and features ship on time with measurable impact
• Engineering and design have the clarity they need to move fast without rework
• The roadmap is translated into prioritized, actionable tickets so the team always knows what to build next and why
• Technical tradeoffs are made deliberately - scope is realistic, and surprises from unclear requirements are rare
• The product is getting better in ways users notice and the data confirms

What You Are

• An experienced PM with a track record of shipping in a startup or consumer product environment, ideally with a technical background (engineering, CS, data, or equivalent hands-on product/tech experience)
• Technically fluent enough to discuss APIs, architecture, performance, and constraints with engineers - you don’t need to write production code, but you need to understand what you’re asking for
• Dynamic and adaptable - comfortable switching between strategy, execution, and team coordination in the same week
• Data-informed but decisive - you can make a call when the data is incomplete
• A clear communicator who can align stakeholders without slowing things down
• Someone who understands social media or consumer platforms from the user’s perspective - not just from the product spec
• Comfortable owning delivery hygiene: tickets, organization, and sprint rhythm, not just product vision
• Product design experience, or comfort working in tools like Figma, is a plus - especially when partnering with design on scope and flows
• Comfortable living in analytics tools - you check the numbers daily and use them to spot problems and opportunities before anyone asks

What You Are Not

• Someone who needs an established process or large team to operate effectively
• Someone who struggles to make hard prioritization calls under pressure
• Someone who writes excellent PRDs but struggles to drive them to shipped product
• Someone who stays out of technical detail and expects engineering to “figure out the how” alone
• Someone who sees ticket management, sprint ceremonies, or supporting leadership as “below” the PM role - on a small team, that work is part of the job
• Someone looking to be an individual contributor - this is a product role with deep technical partnership

Compensation

UpScrolled is headquartered in the Netherlands, but we hire in all European countries and many others around the globe.

We offer health insurance and paid time off (vacation, sick, parental, etc.) in compliance with local labor regulations in the employee’s country of residence.

Equal Opportunity

UpScrolled is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the people our product serves. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or any other protected characteristic. If you need accommodations at any stage of the hiring process, please reach out — we will work with you.

Work Authorization

Candidates must have the legal right to work in their stated location. UpScrolled does not currently offer visa sponsorship.