Head of Product Management

About the Role

We are seeking a leader for our product management team. Our PM team operates with one foot in the factory and one foot in the field, bridging between our customers and our engineering team. In this role you’ll spend two-thirds of your time leading people and processes and of your time on product leadership. You are comfortable with a deeply technical product that serves a deeply technical audience.

You Will

• Build, lead, encourage, coach, and mentor the team of product managers that craft our product.
• Guide and implement our product development life cycle (PDLC) together with the engineering and UX teams.
• Deeply understand the marketplace and the competition.
• Bridge our investment strategy and strategic roadmap into execution by small feature teams.
• Coordinate with product marketing on positioning and messaging.
• Communicate priorities and the roadmap, and align the team around them.
• Evangelize our product and our philosophy, both inside and outside Chronosphere.
• Wield data and drive decisions from the bottom up.
• Handle user problems together with the engineering, customer success, and field teams.
• Drive clarity.

What You Will Achieve

In your first 30 days, you’ll investigate the market and user base and in-flight development projects. You’ll meet our existing customers, ride along on end-user interviews, and observe stand-ups and other sprint ceremonies. You’ll shadow our product candidate interviews. You’ll connect with all the other parts of our remote-first organization, and meet all the people.

Within 3 months, you’ll take on management of our team of 7 product managers. You’ll drive the hiring process as we continue to grow the team over the next year. You’ll manage assignments to feature teams.

You Have

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of product managers.
• A track record of delivering software with agile processes and tight feedback loops.
• Familiarity building and operating software as a service.
• A history of success in a high-growth startup environment.
• An obsession with getting the little details right.
• Experience partnering with UX to build delightful features.
• No fear of diving deep into the world of cloud native monitoring: Docker, Kubernetes, and Prometheus.
• A strong background of collaborating with recruiting, making hiring decisions, closing candidates, and building a diverse and inclusive team.

Location

United States - Remote #LI-Remote

The Team

Reporting to Jeff Cobb, Global Head of Product and Design

Jeff Cobb is Head of Product. He listens to Chronosphere’s users, focuses product priorities, and guides us toward lovable software. Previously Jeff built customer-development-driven product teams for Qumulo and LiveStories. At APM pioneer Wily Technology, Jeff was the architect of the flagship product Introscope. Jeff is a Little League umpire, a fly fisherman, and a bass singer.