Strategic Product Manager - Community Products

Summary

Join Stack Overflow, a leading online community for developers, as a Staff Strategic Product Manager to shape the future of community products. You will lead the exploration, validation, and development of new strategic products and initiatives, working closely with senior leadership. This role requires a proven track record in strategic initiatives, new product development, and innovation within a technical market. You will leverage data-driven decisions, champion user-centered design, and establish clear metrics for success. The position offers a remote-first work environment with flexible hours and a comprehensive benefits package. Stack Overflow is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, with a strong emphasis on strategic initiatives, new product development, or innovation within a technical market
• Proven track record in greenfield environments: Demonstrated ability to build new products, teams, frameworks, or processes from scratch, comfortable with rapid iteration and ambiguity
• Exceptional Strategic & Analytical Skills: Capacity to identify large-scale opportunities, break down complex problems, articulate a clear product vision, and leverage data for decision-making
• Deep Product Discovery Expertise: Experience with early-stage testing and discovery methods (e.g., usability testing, A/B tests, user interviewing)
• Technical & UX Acumen: Strong understanding of technical architectures, UX principles, and their implications for product requirements
• Outstanding Communication & Collaboration: Ability to craft compelling narratives, influence diverse stakeholders, and drive consensus across complex initiatives
• Growth and Innovative Mindset: Excitement for and/or experience with AI/data-driven solutions and collaborating with data science teams

Responsibilities

• Shape the Future: Partner closely with senior product leadership and lead the exploration, validation, and development of new strategic products and initiatives that redefine Stack Overflow's public community platform, identifying and seizing opportunities that significantly enhance value for technologists
• Drive Strategic Vision: closely work with product research, design, marketing, and data science to define, iterate on, and evangelize the long-term product strategy for Community Products
• Strategic Roadmapping & Execution: Own the strategic roadmap for critical cross-team initiatives, ensuring alignment across the organization and driving successful execution from concept to launch and beyond
• Market Intelligence & Innovation: Continuously monitor industry trends, emerging technologies (especially AI/ML), and competitor movements to identify disruptive opportunities and potential threats, translating insights into actionable product strategies
• Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage quantitative and qualitative data, user research, and market analysis to rigorously evaluate opportunities, make informed decisions, and focus our efforts on initiatives with the highest potential impact
• User-Centric Innovation: Champion user-centered design and development, engaging directly with our global community of developers and customers through workshops, interviews, and experiments to uncover unmet needs and validate solutions
• Define Success: Establish clear metrics for success, measure the effectiveness of new products and features, and iterate rapidly based on performance and user feedback

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering externally to design, test, and build product integrations for shared user groups
• Background in developer communities, social platforms, AI/data products, or B2C products
• A strong understanding of Stack Overflow and the broader developer ecosystem

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