Senior Product Manager - Programming Languages and Tooling

Summary

Join IOHK's Midnight Tribe as a Senior Product Manager for Programming Languages and Tooling! You will be responsible for defining product requirements, prioritizing the backlog, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver product releases. This role requires a strong technical background, experience in product management, and proficiency in Agile methodologies. You will work closely with designers, engineers, and stakeholders to shape the product roadmap and ensure successful product launches. The ideal candidate possesses excellent communication and leadership skills, a deep understanding of programming languages and blockchain technology, and a proven track record of success in product development. This position offers remote work, laptop reimbursement, a new starter package, learning and development opportunities, and competitive PTO.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrable proficiency in 3+ programming languages, ideally spanning several programming idioms (procedural, functional, object-oriented, …)
• Demonstrable experience with the capabilities and limitations of ZK proving systems
• 7+ years of experience as a Product Manager or similar role in product management in programming languages, developer tooling, blockchain, web3, or SaaS companies
• Technical background with knowledge of software development
• Domain expertise with Agile, Jira and Github
• Proficient in Agile methodologies and leading technical, design, and business teams
• Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle, from ideation to rollout
• Effective stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
• Team spirit and good communication abilities
• Good organizational skills
• Project management experience in the context of product development
• Track record of implementing metrics and measuring product success
• Strong collaboration with software development and marketing teams
• Demonstrate competency with requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice
• Leverage strong interpersonal skills to drive innovation in product development with a team of world-class engineers and Scientists
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment across levels and roles

Responsibilities

• Create feature requirements to evolve the language and developer tooling roadmaps
• Groom and prioritize the backlog
• Develop epics and user stories
• Define acceptance criteria for each feature
• Work closely with Product Design, Marketing, and Developer Relations to identify and translate features into requirements for the Language Architecture and Engineering Squad and ecosystem partners
• Balance business needs with technical requirements
• Recommend alternative technical approaches to meet product requirements when needed
• Identify user needs and work with cross-functional teams to deliver product releases
• Collaborate with the Product Designers, Developer Relations Engineers, Language Architects and Engineers, and customers to provide input into the product roadmap and drive the execution of products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Lead the language and developer tooling functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology
• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned product features, balancing the requirements of stakeholders
• Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, testing, and developer relations
• Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes for target personas
• Work in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks
• Partner with operations departments to define the user experience for internal users, including production support and monitoring
• Work with product design, developer relations and product marketing to provide input into the go-to-market plan, and collaborate with the commercial team to ensure they have what they need to be successful
• Develop and maintain appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment

Preferred Qualifications

• Product Management certification (CPM, AIPMM)
• Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen
• Strong leadership skills, be resourceful and use initiative while exercising personal accountability for your product
• Have a deep understanding of programming languages such as TypeScript
• Have a deep understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, keeping abreast of industry developments and trends in the product landscape
• Keep up to date with the status of competitors from a technical and business perspective

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO