Product Manager, Astronomer

• If you’re a seasoned product leader with experience growing a SaaS, developer tooling, or data business and are interested in grabbing the wheel at a startup – this job is for you
• We’re looking for someone who is both intuitive and analytical, has a strong understanding of and high empathy for the developer, and is an outstanding communicator and team player who can manage a wide range of stakeholders
• A point of view for what developers look for in SaaS products and what areas of opportunity can have the highest leverage
• 2+ years of product management experience at a SaaS company or equivalent engineering experience building products for a technical audience
• An ability to both think big and sweat the details
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle and industry-wide best practices when it comes to writing, testing, and maintaining code
• A knack for distilling complex problems and solutions into simple, compelling, and digestible written material and verbal presentations
• A strong ability to synthesize information from customers, prospects, open source users, and industry trends to build an actionable, data-driven roadmap
• A bias for action and execution that drives you to set clear priorities, break down big rock features into week-to-week action items, and define deadlines
• High empathy, humility, curiosity, and a default to listening and asking questions first

Desirable

• Astronomer is looking for a product leader to drive our roadmap around the developer experience on Astro, Astronomer’s flagship data orchestration cloud service
• If done well, your work will be used by thousands of data engineers around the world and you will define the element of Astro's competitive differentiation that will take Astronomer to the next level in the market
• Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the developer experience team on Astro. Your target persona is the data engineer writing and running DAGs
• Set a foundation for user research at Astronomer by engaging deeply with both Astronomer customers and data engineers in the open source community
• Develop detailed use cases and product requirements, working closely with the engineering team through design, development, testing, and release
• Support product marketing, sales enablement, and our developer relations teams to craft messaging and content tailored to data engineers
• Collaborate with Astronomer’s customer-facing technical teams to get connected to the right customers, understand day-to-day pain points, and get their input on the roadmap
• Partner closely with Astronomer’s product growth team to both define data-centric processes to measure success as well as incorporate improved developer experiences into how we onboard users who are new to Apache Airflow, at scale
• Research, synthesize, and learn from other world-class developer and consumer tools in the market
• Regularly present your vision, challenges, and learnings in company, executive, and external industry forums