Senior Product Manager - Server
CircleCI- full_time
- Posted : 4 years ago
As the Senior Product Manager for our Server offering, you will be working as part Product Manager, part Program Manager. Our Server offering is our single-tenant, dedicated solution that is deployed by some of our largest customers on their own infrastructure who have unique security, compliance or regulatory needs. You will work directly with the Server engineering team to build key features that our Server customers require. You will also work closely with the rest of the Product Management and Engineering teams to ensure the needs of the Server customer are deeply ingrained into all of our new features being delivered. You will provide process expertise and technical guidance for the Product Management organization to deliver a best-of-breed single-tenant experience, deeply understanding our business drivers and key success metrics while regularly identifying, advocating for, and piloting process improvements.
The Product Management team is responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and execution. Because developers are our customers (and we’re a huge user of our own service), Product Management and Engineering work together closely to understand the needs of our users, and jointly define the product vision. We work in cross-functional teams, use data and user-research to drive our decision making, believe in delivering features quickly and continuously improving them, and love to talk to our users. We prioritize work that delivers the most impact, and is measurable and achievable.
- Develop and articulate the product strategy for our single-tenant, Server offering, and effectively present and influence key stakeholders on the merits of the strategy.
- Define MVP, prioritize features, build agreement and coordinate product schedules with a team of engineers and designers to ship top quality experiences to Server customers on a regular cadence
- Build and maintain our Server roadmap to delight our users while growing the business
- Define methods and metrics for measuring success and failure of our Server offering while ensuring the team is clear on their objectives, and constantly track performance
- Work directly with other product managers, designers and engineers to incorporate the needs of the Server customer with their features to ensure a cohesive and complete experience for our Server user.
- Identify and coordinate the interdependencies amongst the various product initiatives as it relates to the Server offering and its unique release cadence
- Work with Release Engineering to build, manage and improve our packaging and release process for our Server offering
- 7+ years of product management experience, ideally in SaaS and / or packaged software
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize amongst competing opportunities, balancing customer needs with business priorities and the ability to articulate the rationale behind those decisions
- Strong use of analytics, user research and business cases to drive decisions and improve products
- Experience working with a variety of product management strategies and techniques, with a clear understanding of the pros and cons of each and how and when to apply them effectively
- Demonstrated ability in breaking down complex problems, developing strategies and plans to solve them, and effectively collaborating with teams to deliver solutions
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
- Exceptional organizational and analytical skills
- Solid understanding of how software is built, tested and released to customers
- Experience working for an engineering-driven company a plus
- Startup experience a plus
- Understanding of Continuous Delivery concepts a plus
If you’re interested in joining the team at CircleCI, please send a resumé and cover letter describing what inspires you and why you think you are a good fit for the team. If you contribute to an open source project, write a blog, or have a presence on the web (GitHub, Twitter, Stack, etc.) we would love to hear about it.
We know there’s no such thing as a “perfect" candidate - we’re all a work in progress and are growing new skills and capabilities all the time. CircleCI welcomes those who are enthusiastic about learning and evolving, so however you identify and whatever your background, if this looks like a role where you could do work that excites you, we hope you’ll apply.
CircleCI is the world’s largest shared continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the central hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools that processes more than 1 million builds a day, CircleCI has unique access to data on how engineering teams work, and how their code runs. Companies like Spotify, Coinbase, Stitch Fix, and BuzzFeed use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Scale Venture Partners, Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ), Baseline Ventures, Top Tier Capital, Industry Ventures, Heavybit, Harrison Metal Capital, Owl Rock Capital Partners, and NextEquity Partners.
CircleCI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
Skills
- saas
- product management
