You are a deeply technical Product Manager who is comfortable operating across several teams and product areas at once. You can move between customer discovery, strategy, product specifications, prioritization, and launch execution based on what the organization needs most.
You are energized by startup environments where roles are broad, context changes quickly, and progress depends on people taking ownership beyond narrowly defined responsibilities. You do not need a large product organization, extensive research support, or a mature operating process to make effective decisions. You are comfortable creating structure where it is useful while avoiding process for its own sake.
You are pragmatic. You know that the best product decision is not always the most ambitious or technically sophisticated one. You consider customer value, engineering effort, product quality, strategic importance, and speed when helping teams determine what to build.
You have meaningful experience with software development, whether through a previous engineering role or sustained hands-on coding experience. You understand how developers work and can discuss technical constraints and tradeoffs credibly. You can explain and defend product decisions with customers, executives, and engineers, even when the engineering team is not present.
You are comfortable spending significant time with customers. You ask thoughtful questions, identify the underlying problems behind feature requests, and distinguish between an individual request and a broader market need. You can turn fragmented feedback into actionable insights and clear product direction.
You are also an excellent communicator. You tell the story behind why a product or initiative matters, creating alignment across engineering and the broader organization. You bring clarity to ambiguous problems without pretending to have certainty where it does not exist.
Because this role will work closely with leaders in Eastern Time and with customers primarily located in North America, you must have substantial working-hour overlap with the Eastern Time zone.
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5+ years of experience working in product management, including experience within an early-stage company, startup, or similarly small and fast-moving organization.
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Previous professional software engineering experience or substantial hands-on coding experience.
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Experience building technical products for developers, engineering teams, or other highly technical users.
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Experience working directly with customers throughout product discovery, development, beta testing, and launch.
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Experience translating customer problems and technical concepts into clear product requirements and specifications.
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Experience prioritizing work across multiple teams, stakeholders, and competing customer needs.
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Ability to operate as the primary Product Manager across several engineering teams rather than within one narrowly defined product area.
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Strong understanding of software development workflows, Git, source control, and modern developer tooling.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate credibly with both engineers and customers.
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Demonstrated ability to use qualitative feedback, product data, and strategic context to make pragmatic product decisions.
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Ability to work effectively with significant Eastern Time zone overlap.