Remote Product Manager

Summary

The job is for a Product Manager at Sourcegraph, a remote company that builds software to help developers code more efficiently. The role involves working on the Code Search product and requires 5+ years of experience as a product manager, deep knowledge of enterprise customers' needs, and experience as a software engineer.

Requirements

• 5+ years working as a product manager
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to drive and influence product strategy across engineering, design, and distribution
• Deep knowledge of the needs of enterprise customers, not just the core workflows but common supporting requirements like support, security, privacy and auditing
• Experience working as a software engineer. This is a very technical role and requires software engineering experience to effectively communicate with engineers and make educated decisions affecting product scope and performance at scale
• Strong understanding of Git and Git workflows
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical writing ability, and use of data to back up your arguments
• Ability to stay focused on goals and strategically prioritize work
• Deep passion for developer tools and productivity enhancements

Responsibilities

• Begin 1:1’s with your manager, understand your 30-60-90 plan, meet & shadow current members of the Sourcegraph team, and delve into your product area
• Learn Sourcegraph’s core product development processes. Observe and understand our specific development processes and how features move through the development cycle
• Onboard and learn development software stack. Understand how they relate to the overall product life cycle
• Effectively translate requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria. Identify requirement gaps needed for upcoming features. Groom and review the backlog with the team during planning sessions
• Learn internal product processes such as Win/Loss interviews, customer interviews, and customer feedback processes
• Set your goals with your manager and develop an action plan to achieve them
• Successfully lead a development team by running planning meetings, attending retrospectives and daily standups. Fully own the team backlog and identify high value features that align to the product vision
• Work closely with designers and engineering leads to scope complexity of upcoming features. Understand technical complexity when approaching epics and larger initiatives. Understand tradeoffs of time to build vs value to the customer. Able to communicate and negotiate tradeoffs with stakeholders to drive prioritization
• Identify and scope appropriate MVP feature sets as they relate to the larger efforts of the product team
• Write and communicate release documentation highlighting the customer pain point and the end solution