Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rockstar is a company that builds the connective tissue for defense acquisition, allowing secure movement of engineering models and simulations. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to take ownership of a significant piece of their platform, collaborating with engineering teams and directly engaging with customers to drive product development.
Responsibilities
- Own a product area end to end: define what success means, build and manage the roadmap, and make the calls on what to build next and what not to build at all
- Create coherence: take a collection of features and turn them into a product customers understand and a narrative the company can sell
- Do real customer research: get in front of users, understand their workflows and constraints, and turn what you learn into product decisions
- Work day to day with a senior engineering team: write crisp specs, make fast decisions when they're blocked, and protect their time from everything that isn't the work
- Partner with their Head of Product on strategy: bring the evidence, argue for a direction, and help decide where the product goes next
- Communicate with senior stakeholders: engage credibly with customers, sales, and leadership, and represent your area to all of them
Skills
- 4+ years of product management experience at a company known for shipping excellent product at speed, think Stripe, Ramp, Datadog, or an equivalent high-caliber environment
- A track record of shipping under ambiguity: you've taken complicated, ambiguous features from idea to shipped with minimal direction, and you've been handed a hard problem and come back with a good answer
- Comfort in technical domains: you've built products for technical users, or products with real infrastructure underneath them, and you can go deep enough to earn an engineer's trust
- Strong customer instincts: you'd rather talk to five users than read fifty tickets, and you know how to turn research into decisions
- Directness: when asked for your best guess, you give it. You don't hedge, and you'd rather say 'we're doing this wrong, here's what I'd do instead' than make people guess what you think
- Speed and ownership: you take responsibility for outcomes, not activity, and you move fast enough that the team never waits on you
- Experience as the PM for a CLI-based tool, SDK, or other developer-facing product
- Experience as the PM for a desktop or client application: client software is weird in ways that web/SaaS experience doesn't cover, and they'd benefit from someone who has spent time in those trenches
- Deep technical experience with cloud or security infrastructure, especially on products sold to engineers (B2B tooling for data processing, cloud services, and the like)
- Background in aerospace, defense, digital engineering, or other regulated domains
- Must be a US citizen living within the United States
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