Director of Product

Accountabilities • Own product cohesion across the portfolio, defining how the different products complement one another, where they overlap, where they remain distinct, and how the overall portfolio should evolve.

• Establish and lead a strong product discovery practice centered on user conversations, customer signals, evidence gathering, and problem validation.

• Set standards for effective discovery and coach engineers to conduct meaningful customer conversations and incorporate user evidence into product decisions.

• Partner closely with engineering teams to frame problems, evaluate evidence, prioritize opportunities, and determine what should and should not be built.

• Strengthen product judgment across product engineers by coaching teams on customer understanding, problem definition, prioritization, trade-offs, and decision-making.

• Design and own a system for measuring product success, defining clear outcomes and success criteria for initiatives.

• Establish consistent post-launch validation practices to assess whether shipped products and features are delivering their intended outcomes.

• Ensure insights from customer feedback and post-launch measurement are incorporated into future product priorities and roadmap decisions.

• Coordinate product responsibilities across multiple platforms and teams, creating alignment without relying on direct reporting authority.

• Provide senior product leadership in an engineering-led organization while helping establish the foundations for a scalable product function.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product experience, including significant product management leadership experience.

• Demonstrated ownership of multi-team roadmaps, complex prioritization decisions, and product delivery through teams outside of your direct reporting structure.

• Experience working in startup environments and engineering-led organizations where influence, credibility, and collaboration are essential to driving product outcomes.

• Strong ability to operate without an established product organization, building effective practices, frameworks, and decision-making systems from the ground up.

• Experience synthesizing perspectives across multiple products, platforms, or business domains, particularly where platform and product priorities need to be balanced.

• Experience with multi-product portfolios, platform/product strategy, or post-acquisition product integration is highly relevant.

• Deep familiarity with the modern data stack, data orchestration, developer tools, or related technical products.

• Experience with agentic systems, MCP, or comparable emerging developer technologies is a plus.

• Strong customer discovery, product strategy, prioritization, and outcome measurement capabilities.

• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop others, particularly engineers who carry meaningful product ownership.

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build alignment across technical teams and senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority.

• Comfortable operating with significant autonomy, ambiguity, and ownership in a fast-moving environment.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary based on location:

• San Francisco Bay Area & NYC Metro: $221,000–$276,000 USD.

• Washington D.C., Boston, Los Angeles Metro & Seattle: $200,000–$257,000 USD.

• Denver, Chicago, Atlanta & other U.S. metros: $191,000–$238,000 USD.

• Equity stock options.

• Remote-first work environment with a flexible-first culture.

• 401(k) plan with a 5% company match , with immediate vesting.

• Unlimited paid time off.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous parental leave.

• Life insurance and disability benefits.

• $800/month remote work stipend.

• A culture focused on ownership, high standards, thoughtful collaboration, professional growth, and meaningful impact.

• Opportunity to shape product strategy and establish product management practices across a growing technical product portfolio.

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