Senior Director of Product Management, LaunchDarkly
Growth and Foundation
$182-295k
+ 10% Bonus Target + Restricted Stock Units. Salary dependent on location
More information about location
Feature management for software teams
Open for applications
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$182-295k
+ 10% Bonus Target + Restricted Stock Units. Salary dependent on location
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- Fluent in the developer tool landscape: You have a strong grasp of how modern engineering teams build, test, deploy, and operate software—and you stay curious about emerging tools, trends, and technologies that shape developer workflows
- Customer-centric: You are driven to deeply understand customer challenges and needs, and craft solutions that both achieve business outcomes and provide real differentiating value
- Product sense & passion for craft: You love great software, and can’t stand bad software. You have a strong focus on craft, quality, performance, and trust
- Collaborative: You excel at partnering flexibly with diverse teams – refining problems, prioritizing, and shaping solutions with cross-functional partners
- Excellent storyteller: You communicate complex ideas with clarity and empathy—whether in product briefs, customer narratives, or executive updates—to align teams and inspire action
- High agency: You are motivated to achieve success and have a strong sense of ownership to deliver great outcomes across a broad range of responsibilities. If you see something that needs to be done, you make sure it happens
- Business acumen: You have a proven track record tying technical solutions to business objectives, and can align projects to meet customer and company goals
- Team Leadership: 5+ years of experience in product leadership roles, including at least 2+ years leading multiple teams and PMs
- Technical insight: 5+ years building developer tools or infrastructure products. Experience translating complex technical requirements into product roadmaps and leading technical solution design discussions with engineering teams
- Modern development expertise: Direct experience with CI/CD, feature flagging, microservices, or cloud-native architectures. Track record of identifying and capitalizing on emerging developer workflow trends (e.g., GitOps, platform engineering, observability)
- Project leadership: Led 5+ cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, sales, and customer success that delivered measurable outcomes on time
- B2B SaaS product experience: 4+ years as a product manager at a B2B SaaS company, preferably developer tools or infrastructure
- Revenue impact: Quantifiable examples of product decisions that drove ARR growth, reduced churn, or improved key usage metrics. Experience setting and achieving OKRs tied to business outcomes
What the job involves
- As a Director of Product Management, you will drive the growth of the LaunchDarkly Foundation business by optimizing for developer love and creating a powerful growth engine
- You’ll make feature flags essential to the modern tech stack by delivering a world-class developer experience both inside and outside of our main web application
- Your work will ensure that LaunchDarkly flags are seamlessly integrated into software workflows, enabling trusted, flexible release strategies, and unlocking deeper platform engagement through advanced capabilities
- In this role, you’ll partner with marketing, engineering and design to define how modern teams manage feature delivery and shape our long-term strategy for software control
- You’ll lead strategic planning, market and customer research, and collaborate across revenue, marketing, and technical teams to accelerate adoption and deepen platform usage
- Discovery: Lead in-depth discovery efforts with customers, market analysis, and competitive research to identify strategic product opportunities. Translate insights into actionable long-term product vision and roadmap
- Product strategy: Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, including definition, planning, prioritization, and execution. Collaborate with engineering and design counterparts to scope and deliver high-impact initiatives that align with organizational objectives
- Project leadership: Define and lead the execution of complex product initiatives, balancing risk, technical feasibility, and business value. Ensure alignment across stakeholders and deliverables meet high-quality standards and timelines
- Customer Relationships: Build and maintain deep customer relationships with our largest customers. Understand their needs and identify and remove obstacles to growth
- GTM relationships: Partner with go-to-market teams, including sales, marketing, and customer success, to launch and promote new features. Provide clear product positioning, enablement, and support
- Be a trusted partner and leader: Act as a senior liaison for key customers and internal stakeholders. Gather strategic feedback, align product direction with client needs, and provide expert guidance on solution adoption and use
- Uplevel PM Discipline: Build the practices, processes, tools and rituals to increase our effectiveness
- Culture carrier: Bring self-awareness, humility, and a learning mindset to the table — and knows how to build those values into an organization
- Talent magnet: consistently hire and retain it product talent
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
Demonstrating its value to businesses, the platform is used by the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Recently it has seemed to focus on further scaling its growth as it develops towards being a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Co-founder, Executive Chair & CEO)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(Co-founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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