Product Manager, Retool
UI Experience
$127.5-220.2k
Low-code internal tools building software
Job no longer available
Low-code internal tools building software
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$127.5-220.2k
201-500 employees
Company mission
Retool's mission is to create the future of internal software by making software development for engineers simpler and more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- At Retool, Product Managers are highly flexible, technically-minded, and known for their readiness to pivot or tailor their efforts when necessary to deliver great products to our customers
- You have 6+ years of product management experience at a fast-growing technology company
- You’ve shipped large-scope projects end-to-end
- You know how you work best with engineering and design counterparts
- You’ve worked closely with go-to-market teams to arm them to sell and to gather product feedback
- You’ve worked closely and directly with customers, and have a knack for turning customer problems into the right product solutions
- You have a strong ownership mindset to do whatever is needed to deliver the best product to our customers
- You nurture a deep curiosity and knowledge of your customers and products
- You think not just in terms of features but platforms and systems. You thrive thinking about how the interplay of different capabilities can open up more powerful and interesting possibilities
- You have significant experience with SQL, Javascript, and APIs. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to speak the language of caching layers, databases, and pull requests
- You have some experience with frontend development. You’ve at least dabbled with React, you’re familiar with Flexbox (even if you have to look it up every time you use it), you’ve used a component library like ShadCDN, Material UI, or Bootstrap
What the job involves
- Tens of thousands of customers rely on Retool to run their businesses, and our Product team helps shape the vision, create the roadmap, and build the products that make our customers successful
- Your days will include collaborating with design and engineering counterparts to build the right thing at the right time, working closely with go-to-market teams to get our products into the hands of our customers, and working with company leadership to communicate the direction and vision for your product area to the rest of the organization
- As a PM on the UI Experience team, you’ll drive direction for the heart of the Retool product: the interface builder
- Retool’s UI Builder aims to make it easy to create beautiful apps quickly, but also let sophisticated developers build deeply complex interfaces
- It should let developers realize customized and brand-aligned designs, but also guide builders towards creating clean, usable apps by default
- Finding this balance requires a great deal of product discipline, customer insight, and taste
- This is where you’ll come in: as the PM for the UI Experience team, you’ll help create decision-making frameworks for the team, build the case to invest in certain UI capabilities and not others, and chart the long-term strategy for the core Retool product
- You’ll be working with almost all Retools but will most often be partnering with engineers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams to deliver products to our customers
- Set the direction of Retool’s product
- Understand our customers by talking with them, a lot, interacting with go-to-market teams, and digging into product data; and communicate what you find to the rest of the organization
- Collaborate with go-to-market to launch new features and products to our customers
- Identify new opportunities and product areas for Retool to pursue
- Measure, analyze and report to the organization on the success of our products
- Help build the organizational foundations for a high-performing and growing Product team at Retool
Our take
Retool allows developers to build internal applications quickly using a complete set of ready-made building blocks. These internal applications can be used to display company data from a range of sources, including Redis, Salesforce, Google Cloud, and Slack.
For a monthly fee, the platform enables companies to save time that they would have otherwise spent on developing their own internal applications. Retool brands itself as 'low-code,' meaning that it is easy to use and customize. There is a huge demand for systems that allow teams to analyze the data they already have. Retool already counts brands such as Amazon, Philips, Peloton, NBC, and Mercedes-Benz as customers.
Retool was founded in 2017, and the company is now valued at over $1 billion. Founded by Oxford graduate David Hsu, the management team includes ex-Stripe and ex-Airbnb employees with plenty of experience in taking a company from a start-up to a global brand. Retool was awarded $45 million in Series C in 2022, which it is using to expand its workforce, tweak its platform, and develop new products.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2022
$45m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $165.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive healthcare, dental and vision benefits
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner at our San Francisco and New York offices
- $1,200 annual stipend for anything learning-related (books, conferences, classes, etc.)
- $1,000 work-from-home-setup stipend
- Flexible PTO
- Family planning support and paid parental leave
- 401(k) Matching
- Mental health and wellness benefits
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
David Hsu
(CEO)David studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Oxford, before founding Retool in 2017. He has served as CEO ever since.
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