Senior Product Manager - Octopus Cloud

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4000 organizations globally –  including Ubisoft ASOS Xero monday.com Stack Overflow NASA and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery GitOps and release orchestration solutions.

Founded in Australia in 2012 our team of over 270 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 30–50% every year for the past 8 years and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years.

We’ve been remote-first since 2015 and work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive collaborative and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what’s best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s. We conduct interviews and onboarding virtually as part of being a remote-first company.

About the Role:

You and your team will be on a mission to make our SaaS offering the first and best choice to experience what we have to offer.

Why this job is exciting:

• You’ll build your skills in growing a B2B SaaS scale-up with a focus on meeting the increasingly high needs of our enterprise customers

• You’ll have autonomy ownership impact and growth potential

• Work in an organisation with a strong product operating model

• You’ll work closely with a Researcher and a Principal Engineer on your team to identify the most valuable customer needs to address and define the best solutions

• Your manager (and other leaders) will be invested in your career and growth

What you’ll do:

• Build an understanding of our customers across a range of industries and technology stacks

• Uncover insights and shape the next 3-5 most crucial and timely opportunities for Octopus Cloud

• Work in partnership with your Research and Engineering peers to make strategic decisions and drive execution

• Collaborate with your team in thinking big unifying the technical vision customer needs and business goals to find solutions to these problems

• Work in close collaboration with our Revenue and Marketing organizations to help accelerate Octopus Cloud adoption

• Inspire and excite the team to do the best work of their careers through stories of the purpose and impact of their work

We are looking for someone like you who:

• Has multiple years of experience working on an Enterprise B2B SaaS product

• Can guide discussions with customers to uncover opportunities

• Has experience assessing opportunities and setting direction for the product/product area

• Is comfortable managing a technical product including aspects such as security scalability availability etc.

• Has a highly collaborative approach and creates alignment within the organization across executives decision-makers and influencers

• Represents your product always looking for opportunities to improve engagement and support customer success

• Has worked closely with marketing sales or customer success teams to identify and prioritize changes that will unblock product adoption

Compensation:

Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation . Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same.

The compensation of this role is:

Level 4

Maturing: $165k AUD/$175k NZD Performing: $175k AUD/$190k NZD

We are open to Product Manager (Level 3) candidates who are excited and ready to grow their discovery skills. If you’ve been following thought leaders like Teresa Torres and looking for an opportunity to put what you’ve learned into practice in an empowered team this is your chance!

Level 3

Maturing: $140k AUD/$150k NZD Performing: $150k AUD/$160k NZD

Benefits include a minimum of 25 days annual leave up to 10 days of paid sick and carers leave 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave with flexible return options and stock options. Learn more .

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We know interviewing can seem daunting but rest assured we designed our interview process to move quickly while still getting you all the information you need.

Interview process (~4 hours total)

Here's what you can anticipate in the interview process for this position. It's also your opportunity to gather the details you need to decide if we're the perfect match for you.

Step 1 [45m] – 👋 Talent Acquisition meet - An opportunity for you to ask any initial questions. We'll cover some questions designed to learn more about your approach to product management and the challenges you've faced.

Step 2 [50m] – ☕️ Coffee chat interview with a hiring manager and another Octonaut where we delve into your experience – you will receive a preview of the questions we might ask in advance. We will also take time to answer your questions.

Step 3 [1hr 40m] – 🗺️ Panel Interview – we explore a product you led in the past and your experience in more depth and introduce you to some of our cross-functional team members. This is another chance to ask us questions on top of mind and learn from various perspectives and experiences of folks on the team.

Step 4 [30m] – 🎉 Product Leadership Team meet - Get to know the Engineering Manager Lead Product Researcher and Principal Engineer who form your PLT.

Our public employee handbook is the best place to learn more about life at Octopus. It includes our values how we structure teams career progression leave and benefits and much more.

If you're enthusiastic about this position even if you don’t meet all the criteria above we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house and we recognize that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team.

We know your time is precious. If you apply we promise to update you at least once per week about the status of your application and to give you clear expectations for each step in the journey.

[Note to Search Firms/Agencies]

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