Staff Strategic Product Manager, Stack Overflow
Community Products
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Overflow
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
Public Q&A platform for developers
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Public Q&A platform for developers
501-1000 employees
B2BRecruitmentProductivityLearningSaaSCommunity
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
+ Equity
Overflow
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
501-1000 employees
B2BRecruitmentProductivityLearningSaaSCommunity
Company mission
To empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
Role
Who you are
- Are you a visionary product leader passionate about shaping the future of online communities and empowering technologists worldwide?
- This role is for a proven product strategist with a strong bias for action, who thrives in ambiguous, greenfield environments and can translate complex ideas into tangible, high-impact products
- If you're excited by the prospect of defining the future of knowledge sharing for developers and building products that become indispensable to their daily lives, we want to talk to you
- 8+ years of product management experience, with a strong emphasis on strategic initiatives, new product development, or innovation within a technical market
- Proven track record in greenfield environments: Demonstrated ability to build new products, teams, frameworks, or processes from scratch, comfortable with rapid iteration and ambiguity
- Exceptional Strategic & Analytical Skills: Capacity to identify large-scale opportunities, break down complex problems, articulate a clear product vision, and leverage data for decision-making
- Deep Product Discovery Expertise: Experience with early-stage testing and discovery methods (e.g., usability testing, A/B tests, user interviewing)
- Technical & UX Acumen: Strong understanding of technical architectures, UX principles, and their implications for product requirements
- Outstanding Communication & Collaboration: Ability to craft compelling narratives, influence diverse stakeholders, and drive consensus across complex initiatives
- Growth and Innovative Mindset: Excitement for and/or experience with AI/data-driven solutions and collaborating with data science teams
- If you're a product leader who thrives on strategic challenges and wants to make a tangible impact on the lives of millions of technologists globally, we encourage you to apply
Desirable
- Experience partnering externally to design, test, and build product integrations for shared user groups
- Background in developer communities, social platforms, AI/data products, or B2C products
- A strong understanding of Stack Overflow and the broader developer ecosystem
What the job involves
- Stack Overflow, the definitive platform for developers and technologists, is seeking a Staff Strategic Product Manager to drive the next evolution of our community products
- This is a unique opportunity to define and launch innovative solutions that will impact millions, charting the course for how the world's current and next generation of technologists learn, share, and collaborate
- As a Staff Strategic Product Manager on the Community Products team, you won't just manage a product; you'll explore, evaluate, and bring to life strategic initiatives that push the boundaries of our platform and ecosystem
- You'll operate at the intersection of deep user understanding, cutting-edge technology (especially AI), and market trends, working hand-in-hand with senior leadership to identify and capitalize on the biggest opportunities for growth and impact
- Shape the Future: Partner closely with senior product leadership and lead the exploration, validation, and development of new strategic products and initiatives that redefine Stack Overflow's public community platform, identifying and seizing opportunities that significantly enhance value for technologists
- Drive Strategic Vision: closely work with product research, design, marketing, and data science to define, iterate on, and evangelize the long-term product strategy for Community Products
- Strategic Roadmapping & Execution: Own the strategic roadmap for critical cross-team initiatives, ensuring alignment across the organization and driving successful execution from concept to launch and beyond
- Market Intelligence & Innovation: Continuously monitor industry trends, emerging technologies (especially AI/ML), and competitor movements to identify disruptive opportunities and potential threats, translating insights into actionable product strategies
- Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage quantitative and qualitative data, user research, and market analysis to rigorously evaluate opportunities, make informed decisions, and focus our efforts on initiatives with the highest potential impact
- User-Centric Innovation: Champion user-centered design and development, engaging directly with our global community of developers and customers through workshops, interviews, and experiments to uncover unmet needs and validate solutions
- Define Success: Establish clear metrics for success, measure the effectiveness of new products and features, and iterate rapidly based on performance and user feedback
- We’re a distributed, remote team, and you’ll be part of a work culture that emphasizes online & asynchronous communication with minimal meetings and ceremonies
- We’re generally very flexible on working hours, though we do ask everyone on the team to maintain an overlap with (at least) 10 AM - 1 PM US Eastern time
Our take
Stack Overflow is one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide: a Q&A style forum for developers, gamified with upvotes, downvotes, and badges, with over 14 million registered users and upwards of 21 million questions. It's grown to become a go-to resource in the community.
The site has proven a good springboard into providing other knowledge sharing services too - most notable among which is the company’s teams platform. This, along with advertising and jobs listings make for a strong revenue model that saw the company valued at well over $1B when it was acquired back in 2021.
This pricey acquisition means Stack Overflow has a secure buffer it can use to expand. This is taking the form of partnerships with Google Cloud to boost GenAI capabilities, growing its global product audience so it can boost revenue - as things stand, its team's platform is used mainly in the US. If Stack Overflow can get a foothold in developing countries like India and Brazil, it could continue its strong history of impressive growth.
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Insights
Top investors
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2020
$85m
SERIES E
Sep 2015
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $209.1m
Company benefits
- Focus on well-being: We provide full health coverage for you and your family. That means that Stack Overflow pays 100% of your premiums. Additionally, we provide supplemental benefits such as telemedicine options
- Out of state care: We will reimburse up to $5,000 annually for the participant undergoing treatment or a procedure considered unlawful within their home state, plus a companion
- Work where you want: We have a remote-friendly culture. Before the pandemic we were 40% remote. Today, we’re over 80% permanently remote and won’t require employees to return to an office if they don’t want to. We believe people do their best work when they love where they work
- Work how you want: While we’re fully remote, we’re supporting all employees with home office reimbursements and internet stipends. We also encourage employees to set their working hours on their calendar and in Slack to encourage flexibility
- Take care of loved ones: We offer paid parental leave, a meal stipend, and the primary caregiver has the option to come back to work part time for up to one year. We also have a special caregiver policy due to the pandemic
- Keep learning & growing: Access to a personal and professional coach on a 1:1 basis to help develop your career. Additionally, all employees have annual tuition reimbursement, professional development budget for continuing education, conferences, and memberships, in order to advance their skills and knowledge
- Stay fit & have fun: We provide employees monthly fitness reimbursements as well as host regular yoga and meditation classes during the work day. That’s in addition to regular virtual cooking classes, “bev bashes” (what we call happy hours), and more
- Stack Gives Back: We care deeply for our employees and provide paid time off to encourage their voluntary involvement in and support of programs that positively impact the quality of life within the communities in which we live
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Previously a VP at Barclay's Investment Bank. They then worked their way through various senior-level positions at Rackspace Technology, ultimately serving as SVP & GM of Cloud and Infrastructure Services.
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