Product Manager, Metabase
Artificial Intelligence
Open-source Business Intelligence tool
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Open-source Business Intelligence tool
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make an easy, open-source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.
Role
Who you are
- Excited to belly flop into the non-deterministic and reliably unpredictable world of LLM-backed projects
- Able and interested in staying up-to-date with developments in the world of LLMs and adjacent technologies, with a bias towards tinkering on your own
- A thorough thinker, able to be both diligent with details but systematic to see the big picture
- Appreciative of clean but powerful user experiences (and the hard work their require)
- Able to keep a vision in mind, but break the path to it into small, doable, valuable steps
- Motivated to work asynchronously in a global team, and with the written communication chops to do it effectively
- More interested in the Product than the Management part of Product Management
- 3+ years shipping ML products as part of a Product+Eng team, with good understanding of the underlying mechanisms (you can’t just lob requirements over the fence and hope for good things, you need to understand the details)
- 5+ years as a PM in a technical environment (this is not a role for junior PMs), shipping user-facing software (not just infra)
- Preference for the analytics/databases/developer tools space, but you can have built any sort of product as long as it had some real technical complexity
- Demonstrable experience leveraging LLMs as building blocks in complex workflows (either professionally or in personal projects), with strong understanding of underlying mechanics (aka no simple prompt wrappers)
- Driven and experienced in helping others continuously deliver work through influence, not authority
- Skills you don't need: up-to-date coding skills, customer management, cloud infra knowledge, horse whispering
What the job involves
- Our business is thriving and expanding our product in both depth and breadth
- Specifically, we’re growing our AI-backed products and looking for a Product Manager to join our highly technical, UX-appreciative and craftsmanship-aligned team
- Develop deep knowledge and empathy for users needs in the areas they tackle. This involves reviewing existing issues, tickets, docs, engaging in lots of interviews and evaluating quantitative data
- Understand the underlying mechanics of the product at a technical level. They don’t need to read/write code, but need to have the curiosity and ability to over time understand how things work and develop instincts for what’s easy/hard
- Develop strategies for solving clusters of users needs in thoughtful ways, ultimately delivering product docs which frame needs in actionable ways for designers and engineers
- Steward projects forward, helping keep focus, momentum, and continuously re-evaluating scope, with flexibility and appreciation for technical constraints and UX considerations
- Follow-up on the outcomes of projects they ship, quantitatively and qualitatively
- Collaborate with the rest of the team, consistently seeking and providing feedback, as well as pitching ideas for how to advance the product
- Identify opportunities for leveraging ML/LLMs in the product through a mix of strong intuition for use case/solution matches and focused, benchmark-centric experimentation
- Nurture the development of AI projects with particularly strong quantified success criteria, like defining benchmark expectations, sourcing benchmark sample data, gauging likely plateaus for improvement, etc
- Elevate the broader PM team’s knowledge of how to ship and iterate upon LLM features
- Responsibilities don’t include:
- Managing people, herding cats, writing code, making mocks, using JIRA
Application process
- When applying, make sure your cover letter and or resume clearly spell out your ML/LLM experience
Our take
Metabase is leading a new trend in Business Intelligence tools. before it, there were big enterprise systems like SAP, and then self-service tools like Tableau and Looker. Now, cloud-based, open-source tools like Metabase are taking the stage.
Its open-source nature has helped Metabase reach 98 million downloads. Metabase makes money by offering a number of professional services like managed hosting, support, and assistance with implementing Metabase in a custom analytics or business intelligence setup.
The company is doubling down on its documentation and sales team to help onboard less experienced users and scale beyond its current user base of over 30,000 companies. The challenge for the startup will be capturing significant revenue while sticking to its open-source principles.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Apr 2019
$8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $38m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sameer Al-Sakran
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with an MS in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics. Worked as a Software Engineer and Genetic Programming researcher before founding a Facebook Ad Tools startup in 2010. Worked with multiple VCs and startup studios, and lastly Expa from which Metabase was spun out.
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