[Remote] Senior Product Manager - Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Honeycomb is a rapidly growing company focused on defining observability and enhancing developer tools. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive work across various technical areas while prioritizing stakeholder needs and supporting the developer experience.

Responsibilities

• You’ll own driving the work and outcomes across ingest, querying, data retrieval, storage and our internal design system while aligning that work in a way which facilitates and enables better product delivery to our customers
• You’ll understand a range of stakeholder needs from our customers to our internal teams and you’ll prioritize scalable, reliable and maintainable capabilities in service of the long term company and product strategic visions
• You’ll collaborate closely with engineering in platform and with engineering, product and design in our cross-functional teams
• You’ll understand the whole developer experience space at Honeycomb and how best to support it with platform fundamentals
• You’ll build relationships and facilitate impactful technical conversations across the company, including partnering with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. Staying close to folks in the field is a high priority for this role
• You’ll naturally gravitate toward empathetically understanding users, what pains them and pleases them, and you’ll be relentless in advocating for their best interests in the product
• You’ll be taking directional guidance from key stakeholders and using it as the basis for chartering your own product discovery adventures
• You’ll contribute to a community of practice with your fellow Product Managers, fostering a culture of cohesion and knowledge-sharing
• Success is aligning the field and product engineering behind your vision, increasing measurable customer outcomes, and being recognized as an SME for the organization

Skills

• You're endlessly curious - a proactive problem solver
• You seek data to inform your decision-making and allow that to inform how you prioritize work
• You never stop asking questions and you seek answers from your customers, your colleagues and your own research
• You're a thoughtful communicator and product leader
• We see clear and regular communication (including a willingness to give and receive feedback) as a fundamental skill, not just a nice to have
• This role sits at the intersection of several teams and our users, making communication especially important
• You are a systems thinker and understand and can illustrate the interconnectedness of capabilities as their cohesive whole, from backend services to design systems
• You are equally at home setting a vision and identifying small pieces of value that can be delivered iteratively and quickly
• You enjoy shepherding product work through its entire lifecycle, from early prototype to GA
• You find ambiguity inspiring and are driven to navigate your way through it to a place of clarity
• You value making space for learning before pushing toward a solution
• You're comfortable and interested in technically complex spaces, whether it's a background being a developer yourself or a history working on technical SaaS products
• A strong preference to have experience working in or as a user of tracing, metrics, monitoring, or analytics software
• You're excited to build the next generation of tracing technology!

Benefits

• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
• Time to recharge with unlimited PTO
• A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!)
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance

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