Enterprise Product Manager, PlanetScale
$170-200k
Plus equity
Serverless database for developers
Job no longer available
Serverless database for developers
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$170-200k
Plus equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To simplify and revolutionize the way organizations manage and scale their databases.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in Engineering and Product roles, including experience working with engineering to prototype and iterate on features to improve an end-to-end user journey or workflow in the context of a product strategy
- Experience building infrastructure products. Our product powers mission critical workloads that impact hundreds of millions of users
- Experience building features in public clouds (AWS, GCP or Azure) in the enterprise technology space
- An ability to grasp complex technical concepts and tie the impact of technical trade-offs to user experience trade-offs
- Experience working with medium-sized to large enterprises to understand and address problems and set proper timelines and expectations around feature delivery
- Excellent writing skills. We rely on documents to align plans and requirements across teams
- A collaborative approach and an eagerness to partner with every function in the company in order to excel in your role
- Experience with an all-remote team
- Exposure to relational databases and the database space in general
- Experience building organizations from the ground up
- Experience shaping and leading design strategy
- Product design, iconography, and illustration experience
- Experience communicating concepts
- Experience receiving and incorporating design feedback
- Experience coordinating, directing, and guiding the work of other designers
- You have a drive for getting the best out of people by creating collaborative, creative, and high performing teams that are empowered to ship software
- You have an understanding of how to navigate inside a fast paced environment - we are a growing company, and you feel comfortable decreasing ambiguity and creating alignment
- You have a focus on creating products that people want to use and that enterprises can trust
- You create a high productivity, high autonomy environment that rewards excellent work and provides the tools and support to back it up. We don’t leave our teammates to fend for themselves, or send them on aimless expeditions
- You and your colleagues are committed to helping you achieve your potential, holding you accountable, and making sure that you always know where you stand
- You value the growth and opportunity that comes with working at an early-stage, fast-paced startup. This doesn’t mean stress and overwork, but the opportunity to work in and around every function of the business, and learn from some of the best
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Enterprise Product Manager who is excited about collaborating on the core PlanetScale customer experience
- You will help define the strategy and roadmap for PlanetScale’s Hosted and Managed offerings and partner closely with the Engineering teams based on those definitions
- Core responsibilities for this role include ensuring the onboarding, provisioning, and managing databases meet the requirements of small, medium and the largest enterprises with an incredible developer experience to boot
- You will execute a product strategy and work directly with customers and internal stakeholders including Engineering, Customer Engineering and Sales Engineering to understand and address their primary pain points, all the while collecting product requirements and documenting customer needs in detail, and with the Security, Legal and, Revenue teams to capture those teams’ requirements perfectly as part of the product roadmap and design
Our take
PlanetScale stems from the founder's integral role in preventing YouTube's collapse during its scaling phase. They devised Vitess, an open-source technology that powers the world's largest applications. Now, PlanteScale has evolved into a MySQL-compatible, serverless database platform making it easier for developers to build multi-cloud databases with limitless scaling.
By introducing features like Data Branching®, non-blocking schema changes, instant schema revert, and PlanetScale Boost, the platform prioritizes workflow velocity and deployment without downtime. This approach accelerates product launches and innovation through GitHub-style workflows.
Excitingly, PlanetScale has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program. This collaboration opens doors for co-selling opportunities, connecting PlanetScale with AWS field sellers worldwide. As an AWS Partner, PlanetScale's serverless database solution is poised to reach a broader audience, promising better customer outcomes and a mutually beneficial partnership with AWS.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2021
$50m
SERIES C
Jun 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $105m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere: We're a remote-first company distributed all over the world
- Unlimited PTO: Rest up when you need to, plus enjoy our company-wide monthly recharge days
- Generous healthcare plan: 100% coverage for you and 85% for your family
- Home office stipend: We'll reimburse up to $1,000 on gear to get you comfortable working remotely
- Phone stipend: $100 per month taken right off your cell phone bill
- Quarterly snacks: Check for your quarterly delivered snack box based on your preference
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jiten Vaidya
(CSO)Background in Chemical Engineering. Was Senior Software Engineer at InterTrust Technologies, before joining Google as SRE-SWE Manager II. Also previously a Software Engineer at Dropbox.
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