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
Company Overview
Honeycomb is the observability platform built for the new shape of software. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.honeycomb.io.