Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join Stack Overflow as a Senior Product Manager and drive the roadmap for the OverflowAPI product development team. You will collaborate with various teams to build and scale high-impact products, leveraging data and research to focus on key opportunities. This role involves defining product strategy, managing backlogs, and partnering with internal and external stakeholders. You will also conduct user research, define metrics, and stay current with industry trends. Stack Overflow offers a remote-first work environment with flexible hours and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 4+ years of product management
• Ability to objectively leverage quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate the benefits and risks of products progressing through the product development pipeline
• Experience with usability testing, metric definition, A/B tests, interviewing, and other common forms of early-stage product testing and discovery
• An understanding of the technical, design, and UX implications of your functional requirements
• A track record of and a desire to operate in a greenfield environment, building new teams, frameworks, and processes.  Make decisions quickly and iterate as you learn and progress
• Excellent writing, visual, and verbal communication skills and the ability to break down complex problems into smaller, manageable pieces or compelling narratives
• Robust and adaptive collaboration skills, with the ability to navigate conflicting needs and orient outcomes that work for a broad range of stakeholders
• Excitement to work on and/or learn quickly about data products and/or AI-driven solutions, including partnerships with teams of data scientists
• Excitement to work on product platforms or build integrations with 3rd party tools

Responsibilities

• Be part of a small cross-functional team tasked to test and define the product strategy for a significant portion of the OverflowAPI product portfolio
• Build a pod or initiative product roadmap, maintain a backlog of projects, and manage the priorities for your team's implementation, enhancement, and support of one or more OverflowAPI products, platforms, or integrations
• Define and lead the road mapping for a product development team that unlocks our ability to deliver value for users and customers
• Leverage data and research to focus our roadmap and strategy on the highest-leverage opportunities for impact
• Innovate on our products through workshops, research, and experiments and communicate findings and recommendations to internal leadership teams
• Participate in discussions and research with users, customers, and external partners regarding high-potential opportunities
• Partner with internal teams to scope necessary and nice-to-have features and functionality for a potential new product and evaluate, buy, build, or partner opportunities with engineering teams
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, Research, Marketing, and Community teams, leveraging their knowledge and expertise and gaining alignment and support
• Define and monitor metrics to determine the effectiveness of features and administer split tests to measure the overall impact
• Interact with our community of developers and customers worldwide to gather ideas and feedback
• Stay current with industry, product, and market trends to identify potential ideas and disruptors and share them with leadership based on opportunity and/or threat

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Product MVP development, innovation, and/or strategic initiatives, including working with marketing, engineering, and other cross-functional partners
• Experience partnering with external partners to design, test, and build product integrations that serve shared user groups
• Experience with both B2B and B2C products and the ability to navigate their varied constraints
• An understanding of Stack Overflow, other Stack Exchange network sites, and Stack Overflow for Teams

Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary
• Generous paid vacation
• Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
• Equity for all employees at all levels
• Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Home Internet stipend
• Professional allocation for your growth and development
• One-time allowance to assist with your home office setup
• Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, MyAcademy and Overdrive
• We’re a distributed, remote team, and you’ll be part of a work culture that emphasizes online & asynchronous communication with minimal meetings and ceremonies
• We’re generally very flexible about working hours, though we ask everyone on the team to maintain an overlap with (at least) 10 AM—1 PM US Eastern time