Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join Chainguard as a Senior Product Manager to oversee the development and improvement of the platform supporting Chainguard’s secure supply chain products. You will collaborate with other PMs and cross-functional stakeholders to lead, develop, and manage the roadmap and vision. Your customers are internal R&D teams, and you will define elegant solutions to increase their productivity. You must be able to work through ambiguity, leverage relationships with stakeholders, and create prioritized use cases for engineering partners. This role involves developing initiatives for new or improved platform services, collaborating on SLOs, creating documentation, ensuring platform developer experience, and driving execution against the roadmap. Chainguard offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Technical experience is a must. Either prior experience as a developer, or proven success working with senior technical teams
• Experience as an internal product manager, platform product manager, platform engineering manager, or other equivalent technical experience
• Ability to navigate complex decision-making and effectively communicate across teams
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently with cross-functional teams and leaders
• Ability to define crisp requirements, write high-level documents, prepare and present material company-wide, and sell a senior leadership team + executive team on initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication and proven track record with developers-as-customers, hands-on execution and timely delivery
• Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Develop and propose initiatives for either new platform services, or improvements to existing platform services, that will increase the overall agility of Chainguard engineering and optimize operational costs
• Collaborate with engineering to define, implement, and maintain SLOs for platform services, ensuring alignment with business goals and user expectations
• Create written documents that clearly define the problem, proposed and recommended solutions, quantitative and qualitative success measures & targets, cross-functional requirements, and ROI to the business
• Be accountable for platform developer experience at Chainguard and the satisfaction of developers working with platform services
• Develop innovative solutions to problems by collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions
• Own the strategy, roadmap and planning cycles for platform engineering
• Drive execution against the roadmap

Benefits

• Equity/stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
• Home office and internet stipend
• 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
• Monthly Wellness budget