Senior Product Manager, Stack Overflow
Community Products
$162-219k
Plus equity in the form of RSUs. Salary applicable to US only
More information about location
Public Q&A platform for developers
Job no longer available
Public Q&A platform for developers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$162-219k
Plus equity in the form of RSUs. Salary applicable to US only
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in a product management role
- Experience working on a B2C product at scale, a community based product, or two-sided marketplaces
- Experience building data or API products is a plus
- Experience building for developer audiences is a plus
- Familiarity with Stack Overflow or other developer communities
- Excellent spec-writing skills with a clear ability to break down complex problems into smaller, manageable pieces
- An understanding of the technical, design, and UX implications of your functional requirements
- Experience with usability testing and A/B tests
- Demonstrated written communication skills, whether that's online posts, specs, blogging, or anything else
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a product manager to join our Community Products organization where you will help drive one of our key focus areas
- Ideally, you’ll have prior experience building products for consumers or businesses at scale, have worked with online communities, and are excited to make an impact by growing our product ecosystem
- At Stack Overflow, our mission is to serve developers and technologists
- Whether we’re helping them get answers to their questions, connect with their communities, or work more efficiently with their team, we build products that make millions of developers’ lives better every day
- As a product manager at Stack Overflow, you’ll create and build inclusive products that directly impact the work and the lives of those developers
- First Month: Get onboarded and brought up to speed on our current plans
- You’ll spend a lot of time learning about our products, building rapport with the product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and community teams, and contributing to small features
- During this time, you’ll be working closely with our existing Community Products product teams
- Next 3 Months: Establish your product team
- Acquire a deep understanding of the biggest opportunities and pain points for our various user segments through past and new user research
- This will include expanding our product suite to better address their needs, and improve their overall experience on the platform
- You’ll speak with users and/or customers, write specs, run experiments, and iterate on ideas with your team and stakeholders
- Next 8 months: You will take a leadership role developing the long-term roadmap for your product team
- You’ll be involved not just in product development, but in defining long-term strategy, improving our processes, and advocating for all developers and technologists that use Stack Overflow
- Collaborate with the product team and key stakeholders to execute on the overall strategy for your product area
- Use agile best practices to establish your product team within the Community Products organization
- Build a product roadmap, maintain a backlog of projects, and manage the priorities for your product team
- Partner with product research & design to understand the core issues that our users and customers care about
- Partner with our engineering team to build and deliver features and improvements
- Work closely with various stakeholders across sales, marketing, and community to align strategy and priorities
- Innovate on our products through workshops, research, and experiments
- Define and monitor metrics to determine the effectiveness of features, and administer split tests to measure overall impact
- Interact with our community of developers and customers around the world to gather ideas and feedback
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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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