Product Engineer (PM)

Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Mid-level · 3+ years

Job description

Product Engineer role at Search Atlas owning a pod's output end-to-end, covering strategy, specs, QA, and hands-on technical work. The role is for someone with product management experience and a technical background who can unblock engineers or write code when needed.

At a glance

Work mode
Remote
Pay
USD 23 – 35 / hour

What you'll do

  • Own the roadmap for your pod: define what gets built, kill low-leverage work, and protect your engineers' time and focus
  • Write specs that start with the problem, not the solution, and ship every brief with a clear success criterion
  • Participate technically: read the codebase, debug independently, and ship small things when it's faster than context-switching an engineer
  • Own QA end-to-end: test plans, regression passes, release sign-off, and post-deploy monitoring in Sentry and Grafana
  • Keep the pod moving: fast decisions, async-first communication, and zero ambiguity about what's next
  • Close the feedback loop between customers, data, and product direction, and hold yourself accountable to the KPIs you define

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, startup or high-growth environment
  • A hands-on technical background: production code, a bootcamp, or demonstrable ability to navigate a full-stack codebase
  • Comfortable reading Python and JavaScript/TypeScript; able to write SQL, reason about REST contracts, and follow frontend state
  • Proven QA ownership: test cases, regression cycles, structured bug reports, release sign-off
  • Daily fluency with Claude Code or equivalent
  • Strong written communication
  • Available in EST
  • You've shipped production code before and you're honest with yourself about your technical depth
  • You treat a spec as a hypothesis to pressure-test, not a document to execute against
  • You don't wait to be told what to do
  • Deadlines and ambiguity don't rattle you
  • You're an AI power user
  • You have opinions and you're not afraid to bring them

Benefits

  • 15 days PTO
  • Christmas Day and New Year's Day paid off

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About Search Atlas

The all-in-one agentic marketing platform. AI-native from day one.

Search Atlas helps marketing teams move faster, make smarter decisions, and do more with less. A $30M+ ARR company, 215 people, bootstrapped, building the infrastructure for the next era of marketing. No outside funding.

Key facts

  • 215 people
  • Marketing technology
  • $30M+ ARR
  • Bootstrapped, no outside funding
  • AI-native from day one
  • Uses AI every day across every function

What they value

  • We are obsessed with our customers, and making them obsessed with us
  • We figure it the f**k out
  • We go to war on our problems quickly
  • We are strategic. We work smart, not just hard.
  • We're fun AF