Staff Product Manager, Sift
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2 days a week in office (El Segundo, CA)
Unified observability for modern hardware
Open for applications
Unified observability for modern hardware
1-20 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
2 days a week in office (El Segundo, CA)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To provide the tools that engineering teams need to efficiently manage hardware data and build the machines of the future.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a PM who thrives in dynamic, high-growth environments and wants to service industries like satellite constellations, renewable energy, and autonomous transportation
- 7+ years of experience as a product manager, with a proven track record of delivering complex B2B SaaS products. Experience at an early-stage startup is a strong plus
- An ability to synthesize myriad inputs and build a cohesive roadmap
- Strong customer empathy with a history of building relationships, conducting deep research, and translating insights into product features
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and lead cross-functional collaboration without being a bottleneck
- Strong understanding of product prioritization frameworks and experience building products that deliver measurable value to customers
- Technical fluency, with the ability to discuss and align on engineering trade-offs and communicate technical concepts to various stakeholders
- Experience in any of the following is preferred:
- Data warehousing/lake housing (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Iceberg)
- Data job orchestration (e.g. Dagster, Airflow)
- Batch and stream processing systems (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Flink)
- Data cataloging, discoverability, and life-cycle management
- Data science models, integrations, or data pipeline development (DBT, Fivetran, AirByte)
- Someone with a growth mindset who’s excited to build, own, and evolve a product function within a high-growth start-up
- A PM who thrives in ambiguity and start-up chaos and who can build a structure where needed
- A business-savvy PM who can connect product decisions with business outcomes and is comfortable prioritizing based on P&L considerations
What the job involves
- Sift is hiring a founding product manager to guide product strategy and develop our roadmap. In this role, you’ll be pivotal in understanding customer challenges and ensuring our product provides meaningful solutions to complex engineering problems
- You’ll partner closely with customers, go-to-market teams, and engineers to ensure alignment between Sift’s vision and our user’s needs. You’ll also have the unique opportunity to shape our process from the ground up
- This is a rare opportunity to influence an early-stage company's success and direction. You will report to our Co-Founder and CTO and play a critical role in translating our long-term vision into a tangible product roadmap
- Guide the vision, strategy, and execution of Sift’s product, ensuring short-term tactics align with long-term goals
- Establish close relationships with customers to uncover their needs and validate opportunities
- Own the product development lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment with company goals and user needs
- Collaborate with the go-to-market, design, and engineering teams to set priorities, optimize the product roadmap, and drive business objectives
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis to shape product strategy, identifying opportunities to expand value for existing customers and drive new revenue
- Set up instrumentation to measure and validate product value, ensuring product decisions are based on clear metrics
- Build a scalable product development process, facilitating smooth collaboration between design, engineering, and product functions
Our take
Sift develops tools to accelerate and ensure the reliability of complex machines. Its platform processes hardware sensor data, providing automated analysis and detailed reports to identify and explain potential issues. This enables users in aviation, defense, energy and transportation to enhance system reliability and comply with regulatory requirements more efficiently.
The platform automates manual data review, which both enhances reliability and speeds up development. Customers like Astranis and Parallel Systems use Sift's observability stack to turn sensor data into actionable insights, which would have likely remained undiscovered when using other systems.
With funding to its name, Sift is ready to broaden its manufacturing automation suite to link sensor data with manufacturing information. This will mean it can help with anomaly detection and performance analysis. It is also making advancements with AI integration for regulatory compliance, which sets it up as a key innovator in the space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2024
$17.5m
SERIES A
Nov 2023
$7.5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $25m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Free lunch, snacks, & coffee
- Top-tier health insurance: Medical, Vision, & Dental
Company HQ
El Segundo, CA
Leadership
Karthik Gollapudi
(CEO)Previously a Dragon Flight Software Lead at Spacex and a Full-Stack Engineer at Information Sciences Institute.
Austin Spiegel
(CTO)Previously a Software Engineering Manager at Riot Games. Prior to that, they worked at SpaceX in various Software Engineering roles.
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