Director of Product Management, Honeycomb
$218-257k
Salary included is for candidates based in the US; Salary for candidates based in Canada: $289,124 - $340,829 CAD; +Equity with employee-friendly stock program
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Provides full stack observability and analysis
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Provides full stack observability and analysis
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$218-257k
Salary included is for candidates based in the US; Salary for candidates based in Canada: $289,124 - $340,829 CAD; +Equity with employee-friendly stock program
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give all software engineering teams the observability they need to eliminate toil and delight their users.
Role
Who you are
- You are a leader who believes great products come from investing in great people
- You know how to help product managers develop their craft while maintaining high standards for outcomes
- You understand that sustainable velocity comes from empowered teams working in small batches with tight customer feedback loops
- Most importantly, you know how to grow and develop product leaders who can balance customer empathy with business acumen
- You are a leader that can catalyze positive change
- Satya Nadella’s three leadership expectations should resonate strongly: you bring clarity to those you work with, generate energy, not only on your own teams but across the company, and finally, you find a way to deliver success, to make things happen
- Several years of product management leadership experience with a demonstrated passion for developing talent
- Track record of growing product managers into strong leaders through clear feedback and coaching
- Experience creating high-trust, high-accountability environments where teams excel
- Excellence in mentoring product practitioners at various stages of their careers
- Proven experience crafting and advocating for an ambitious, inspiring product vision - we'd love to see examples
- Strong foundation in continuous discovery practices and leading teams to practice them effectively
- Deep experience in product discovery, experimentation, and validation
- Track record of delivering significant business outcomes through product work
- Strong connection to business outcomes and clear vision for how product management drives a company’s mission
- Experience with technical products and enterprise sales cycles
- Background in developer platforms, observability, or adjacent spaces is valuable
- Relentless curiosity about users - you deeply understand their pains and motivations
- Natural ability to communicate product strategy and make complex technical concepts accessible
- Exceptional communication skills with ability to present product decisions clearly to diverse audiences
- Proactive, collaborative mindset with proven ability to thrive in dynamic environments
What the job involves
- In this Director of Product Management role, you'll be a force multiplier for our product organization, leading both through the growth and development of your teams and through the products they build
- You'll create an environment where product managers thrive, grow, and deliver exceptional value to customers
- Leading a group of empowered product teams focused on making Honeycomb immediately valuable to new users, you'll build high-trust, high-accountability environments where teams are oriented toward outcomes rather than output, practicing continuous discovery and delivering value in small batches
- Reporting to the VP of Product, you'll lead the product management function for one of our product domains, including instrumentation, frontend observability, and initial customer experience
- You'll drive our product strategy for customer acquisition and early success, defining how we can make observability immediately valuable to new users
- As a hands-on product leader, you'll immerse yourself in the Day 0 to Day 1 experience of engineers adopting Honeycomb and help your team create compelling onboarding experiences
- As a member of the R&D leadership team, you'll build strong working relationships with peer directors and ensure smooth handoffs as customers progress from Land to Expand phases
- You'll define and promote practices that make Honeycomb instantly accessible while setting customers up for long-term success
- You'll establish KPIs that measure the impact of early customer experience improvements, from first contact through successful activation
- You'll collaborate across domains to ensure a coherent customer journey from Day 0 through Day 2 and beyond
Our take
Traditional processes of debugging apps and IT services are becoming obsolete due to the mass adoption of cloud-based tools. However, whilst cloud-based development presents a modern and unified solution to application building, frameworks for troubleshooting such services are not currently something many businesses are prepared for.
Honeycomb provides troubleshooting tools that allow cloud-based software developers to observe code on API tools, live applications, and microservices. The troubleshooting dashboard is designed to be highly visual and user-friendly, thus allowing developers to diagnose cloud-based problems without having a deep understanding of computer science.
The company is building on its 2022 momentum after achieving another consecutive year of 2x revenue growth, driving 160% net revenue retention for its 600+ customers around the globe. Series D awarded in 2023 will be channelled into geographical expansion and supporting its products. Honeycomb’s approach is unique as it is facilitating the harmonious deployment of cloud-based debugging tools in a landscape where such services are essential yet difficult to understand.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2023
$50m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $146.9m
Company benefits
- 100% covered medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, disability, and more
- Unlimited PTO, synchronous company break, paid sabbatical, and expressed minimum for time to recharge
- 401K retirement plans and fully paid life insurance
- Up to 16 weeks paid leave regardless of path to parenthood; flexible hours for returning parents and caregivers
- $10K to cover gaps in insurance, in support of adoption, surrogacy, preservation, and family-planning costs
- $600 per year to spend on the perks you care for most
- A stake in our success
- Generous new hire equity, and refresh grants
- Annual $1,500 development stipend; funding for cognitive coaching; and a focus on career pathing
- $500 new hire home setup stipend and $200/mo for wifi, phone and co-working
Company values
- Fast And Close To Right Is Better Than Perfect - Take pride in your craft and ship relentlessly. Be like our storage engine: 99% right in milliseconds is better than 100% right in an hour. Code in production is worth two in canary
- We Hire Adults - Pay attention to your mind and body so you can give and get help. All of us wobble, and being transparent about that means we can support each other. Participate fully in collaboration, coaching and management. If any group of us were together in a car on a long road trip, there would be no need for a dividing line in the back seat to keep people from hitting each other
- Everything Is An Experiment - Don’t get attached to specific outcomes, as they can prevent you from moving forward. Construct your experiments with purpose, evaluate them with honesty, share your results, and iterate. Failure is a constant, it’s what we learn that matters
- Feedback Is A Gift - Give feedback freely, give gently, give timely, but give. Listen first, listen intently, and celebrate each other’s growth. We are a high-trust and high-transparency team, and this requires us all to dig deep. Discomfort is temporary. We polish each other like diamonds
- Act With Autonomy And Ownership - Come curious. Focus on impact over output. Be generous with your ideas and use your judgment. Optimize for our collective success, not individual glory. Kill your darlings. Be bold, shake it up, and don’t assume the way things are was on purpose. Do it with style
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Charity Majors
(CTO)Former Product Engineering Manager at Facebook and Infrastructure Tech Lead at Parse.
Christine Yen
(CEO)Former Engineer at Parse and IOS contractor at Ridejoy. Co-founder of Venuetastic. BSc in Computer Science from MIT.
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