Remote Technical Product Manager

Summary

Join Ably as a Technical Product Manager and play a key role in the success of the most technical and complex aspects of the Ably platform, including our core Pub/Sub Channels product. You'll leverage deep technical and software engineering expertise to transform ideas into reality, uncovering the problems we can solve for our customers and driving product teams to deliver swift solutions whilst maintaining the level of quality and reliability that our customers expect from Ably.

Requirements

• Significant previous experience in product management for technical B2B SaaS products, with a track record of driving technical and architectural improvements
• A background in software engineering and the ability to write code in at least one modern language to build prototypes that use our APIs
• An understanding of pub/sub and familiarity with distributed systems and event based architectures
• Strong problem-solving skills and enthusiasm for hard challenges, with the ability to analyze complex situations, identify potential obstacles and determine practical solutions
• Demonstrable previous experience of roadmap development for a technically complex product
• A detail-oriented approach to understanding user needs, pain points and behaviors in order to craft exceptional user experiences
• A hunger for data exploration and a history of using data and analysis to make informed product decisions
• Experience at a startup or growth-stage company or adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with a focus on rapid iteration

Responsibilities

• Champion a visionary product strategy
• Advance Ably’s platform
• Experiment and test hypotheses
• Drive exceptional developer experiences
• Inspire and guide engineering outcomes
• Steward the delivery process
• Own commercial outcomes and take new products to market

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering solutions used by developers (developer tools or APIs), or closely related solutions for other technical personas in the software development ecosystem (e.g. DevOps, cloud infrastructure etc.)
• Experience defining APIs, writing documentation and building prototypes

Benefits

• A remote-first and flexible work environment
• Equity
• Enhanced holiday allowance
• Enhanced parental leave package
• Home workstation budget of £500 on joining (and £150 p/a thereafter)
• Personal learning and development budget of £1000 annually, and 5% L&D time during working hours to focus on improving your skillset
• Private healthcare with BUPA
• Medical cash plan to cover a range medical and dental costs
• Mental wellbeing coaching and counselling from Self Space
• Monthly wellbeing budget via Juno
• Life assurance and income protection
• Access to Tech & Cycle to Work schemes
• Weekly snack allowance for our end-of-week “Need To Know” meeting
• A fully-paid one-month sabbatical after five years with Ably