Director of Product Management

Summary

Join Honeycomb as a Director of Product Management and lead a team focused on enhancing the user experience of our observability platform. You will drive product strategy for customer acquisition and early success, creating compelling onboarding experiences and building high-trust, high-accountability environments. As a hands-on leader, you'll mentor product managers, collaborate across domains, and define KPIs to measure the impact of improvements. This role requires extensive experience in product management leadership, a proven track record of success, and strong technical and business acumen. Honeycomb offers a competitive salary, generous equity, unlimited PTO, remote-first culture, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Several years of product management leadership experience with a demonstrated passion for developing talent
• Track record of growing product managers into strong leaders through clear feedback and coaching
• Experience creating high-trust, high-accountability environments where teams excel
• Excellence in mentoring product practitioners at various stages of their careers
• Proven experience crafting and advocating for an ambitious, inspiring product vision
• Strong foundation in continuous discovery practices and leading teams to practice them effectively
• Deep experience in product discovery, experimentation, and validation
• Track record of delivering significant business outcomes through product work
• Strong connection to business outcomes and clear vision for how product management drives a company’s mission
• Experience with technical products and enterprise sales cycles
• Relentless curiosity about users - you deeply understand their pains and motivations
• Natural ability to communicate product strategy and make complex technical concepts accessible
• Exceptional communication skills with ability to present product decisions clearly to diverse audiences
• Proactive, collaborative mindset with proven ability to thrive in dynamic environments

Responsibilities

• Lead the product management function for one of our product domains, including instrumentation, frontend observability, and initial customer experience
• Drive our product strategy for customer acquisition and early success, defining how we can make observability immediately valuable to new users
• Immerse yourself in the Day 0 to Day 1 experience of engineers adopting Honeycomb and help your team create compelling onboarding experiences
• Build strong working relationships with peer directors and ensure smooth handoffs as customers progress from Land to Expand phases
• Define and promote practices that make Honeycomb instantly accessible while setting customers up for long-term success
• Establish KPIs that measure the impact of early customer experience improvements, from first contact through successful activation
• Collaborate across domains to ensure a coherent customer journey from Day 0 through Day 2 and beyond

Preferred Qualifications

Background in developer platforms, observability, or adjacent spaces is valuable

Benefits

• Base pay (range) of $218,000 - $257,000 USD ($289,124 - $340,829 CAD)
• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
• Time to Recharge - In addition to our Unlimited PTO policy, we have a company wide break at the end of the year
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance