Senior Product Manager, MongoDB
$118-231k
MongoDB
Scala
Java
Go
Kotlin
Spring
JIRA
Keep
Hibernate
Junior and Mid level
Remote in US
Developer data platform
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Developer data platform
1001+ employees
B2BEnterpriseBig dataCloud Computing
Be an early applicant
$118-231k
MongoDB
Scala
Java
Go
Kotlin
Spring
JIRA
Keep
Hibernate
Junior and Mid level
Remote in US
1001+ employees
B2BEnterpriseBig dataCloud Computing
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- To work with this team, we are looking for a seasoned product manager who has a background in software engineering (ideally, library/API development & management) - someone who would understand the desires of the developer community intimately from the user perspective
- Therefore, our ideal candidate has hands-on experience building web applications, is a fast learner, and is comfortable with reading and noticing flaws in technical documentation and technical implementation
- You are passionate about working with engineers and understand the software development lifecycle, and are able to crisply communicate what is ideal, what is acceptable, and what won’t work
- You have spent time on sites like StackOverflow searching for solutions
- You have an insatiable desire to learn and improve yourself, and keeping your technical skills sharp is important to you despite working in a product role
- You thrive when working independently, and communicate well both in person and to a crowd
- 2-3 years of commercial experience developing web applications in Java (the interviews for this position will include a live coding component)
- Deep understanding of the Java language, the JVM, and its ecosystem including Scala, Kotlin, Spring and Hibernate
- Ability to communicate sophisticated technical issues simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences
- Ability to distill customer use cases and requirements, write comprehensive business cases and execute on them
- Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning
- Foster an inclusive and respectful work environment according to MongoDB's Core Values
What the job involves
- The MongoDB Developer Experience team builds and maintains the rich set of libraries and integrations that serve as the primary developer interfaces to the MongoDB database, maintaining support for more than ten programming languages
- We’re a globally distributed team with developers in multiple time zones and continents
- Our senior engineers are typically specialists in a particular programming language, but are capable of contributing to projects in other languages as well
- As the product manager, you will define what the user experience should be for specific programming language communities including Java, Scala and Kotlin
- You will identify opportunities and prioritize product backlogs for the client libraries, framework integrations, or partnerships
- You will help plan what we build and when, and be a strong partner with engineering leadership
- Explore the problem space, interact with the users, formulate the vision and maintain the roadmap for your area, keeping it aligned with the company’s strategic priorities
- You will maintain context on what’s new and important to developers
- Deeply understand all aspects of the business — your job is to ensure a business outcome, not just product definition!
- You will work with our technical documentation, DevRel, and services teams to ensure a cohesive experience
- Communicate complex concepts in a manner that is easily understood by multiple audiences
- Onboarding for this role includes building a working web application in the stack of your choice with MongoDB, writing a tutorial, and publishing it publicly
- Define user experiences/scopes and provide necessary advocacy for them to be executed on
- You will also introduce yourself to various JVM-related language communities (such as Reddit) and submit talks for conferences that are technical in nature, triage issues, and sometimes reply to software engineers on community forums
- Work closely with the product design and engineering teams to design, architect, implement and ship new capabilities of the database to delight users
- Balance (sometimes conflicting) priorities on a roadmap to benefit users and enable new use cases, maintain a prioritized backlog
- Advocate for our users with passion about operational performance, predictability, and security
- Collect and analyze data that will drive product decisions
- Work with thought leaders from the respective language communities, establish credibility, and weigh in discussions
- Keep your pulse on software engineering trends across language communities and advocate for new languages, frameworks etc to be added to our portfolio
- Be comfortable troubleshooting bugs, triaging technical issues and review technical designs
- Perform various go to market activities such as collaborating on a marketing campaign, running a survey, or producing sales messaging
- Collaborate with peers in product management, engineering & other disciplines to ensure alignment and common success
- In three months, you will have onboarded on the current MongoDB technologies & tools, and built an application with Java or Kotlin and MongoDB, putting it in public on Github; successfully triaged new issues with the engineering team, taken ownership of the existing roadmap and the product backlog; got to know the team (this team is globally distributed) and started building relationships inside the company
- In six months, you will have reviewed / refined existing user stories and JIRA issues, prioritized and started executing on them with your engineering team; you will have also researched new and existing markets, identified some new trends and started their exploration in a methodical way
- In nine months, you have produced at least two GA releases of tier 1 drivers, several service releases, delighted users with new/improved experiences (you’ll need to define your metrics to measure customer success with your deliverables as well), identified new opportunities & refined your roadmap, contributed to other projects, presented to customers, user groups, and conferences, and gained strong support of your team and other stakeholders
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organisations modernise their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company benefits
- Rich health insurance coverage
- Virtual & on-site fitness classes
- Health screenings & telemedicine
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Global and internal mobility opportunities
- Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Pension & retirement programs
- Income Protection
- Flexible PTO is offered to every US employee & competitive time off policies for non-US employees
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental health counseling
- Free meditation app access
- Fertility & adoption financial assistance
- Parental counseling for new parents
- 20 weeks of fully paid gender neutral parental leave & flexible work arrangements
- 4 weeks of emergency care leave
Company values
- Think Big, Go Far
- Build Together
- Embrace the Power of Differences
- Be Intellectually Honest
- Own What You Do
- Make it Matter
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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