Director of Product Management

At SmartBear, we deliver the complete visibility developers need to make each release better than the last. Our award winning and industry favorite tools TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Zephyr are trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.   

Director of Product Management 

We are looking for a Director of Product Management to lead one of SmartBear’s fastest growing product lines. You will work with a group of highly empowered product managers, engineers, marketers and salespeople to further turbocharge the growth of this business. We are a mature team, but operate at a startup scale when required, giving you immense opportunity to grow in your Product Management career.  

About the role 

As a Director of Product Management, you will:  

• Drive the product vision and strategy for the Zephyr products within the Atlassian marketplace 
• Establish influential relationships with key marketplace players while maintaining strong internal communications across Sales, Product Marketing, and Growth Marketing teams. 
• Lead cross-functional strategic and tactical initiatives in line with customer needs and SmartBear revenue goals. 
• Champion a culture of autonomy, encouraging teams to innovate and drive forward with new ideas and solutions. 
• Analyze market trends, gather customer insights, and adjust product strategy to maintain a competitive edge. 

We are looking for you if you have:  

Must-Haves: 

• Demonstrated domain expertise in building and maintaining marketplace apps (e.g., Atlassian, AWS, Salesforce AppExchange). 
• Highly influential communication skills, capable of influencing both external marketplace entities and internal teams across Sales, Product Marketing, and Growth Marketing. 
• Proven track record of working on products or initiatives with a high degree of autonomy 

Should-Haves: 

• Ability to work effectively with empowered engineering teams that move fast, make sound trade-offs and build next-gen capabilities 
• Experience in a Product-Led Growth (PLG) setting 
• Familiarity with managing globally distributed engineering and product teams 

Nice-to-Haves: 

• Experience managing 2+ PMs 
• Knowledge of SmartBear’s developer and testing tools market landscape 
• Data-oriented and analytical mindset 

Why you should join the SmartBear crew: 

• You can grow your career at every level.  
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun. 
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off. 
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.  
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.  

Did you know? 

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.  
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.  
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India.  
• We’ve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work. 

SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status. 

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