Lead, Product Manager, API Experience

MongoDB

6d•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for an outstanding technical Lead Product Manager with deep experience working with DevSecOps products and technologies, and designing API experiences. In this role, you will engage with high-profile customers as they operationalize MongoDB Atlas within their environments. You will drive solutions to enable customer flywheels, and build prescriptive guidance on how to leverage programmatic automation to effectively scale Atlas usage. You will lead teams to enhance our API experiences and programmatic tools, which are critical interfaces to MongoDB Atlas that help customers bring applications to life. This position requires a driven self-starter who can work easily across teams, is passionate about helping customers succeed, and enjoys working in a dynamic, fast-paced, and challenging environment. This role can be based out of our NYC headquarters, office hub locations, or remotely in the United States and Canada (strong preference for NYC). The Team We are a highly collaborative team of Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, Product Analysts, and Product Marketers, all working together to make the experience of working with data easy and enjoyable for developers. We are a distributed team stretching from our offices in Dublin, Barcelona, NYC, and Bay Area to other locations worldwide. Every now and then, we all meet at one of our offices for project kickoffs, workshops, and other team events. About MongoDB Mongodb is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. Mongodb’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, Mongodb Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on Mongodb for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software. Our compass at Mongodb is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us Mongodb. To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at Mongodb, and help us make an impact on the world! Mongodb is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter. Mongodb, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Requirements

10+ years of product management or equivalent experience with a complex technical enterprise-focused product, preferably in DevSecOps and API experiences
Solid technical skills. Our users are developers, devops, and ops engineers, and our product managers must be just as technical and have working knowledge in these areas to better advocate for them. While not expected to write production code, you should be comfortable evaluating new programmatic technologies, exploring APIs, and speaking authoritatively on any technical aspects of your portfolio
Expert-level proficiency in one or more advanced technical topics. Ideally, previous experience as a developer, operations engineer, or similar
Demonstrated success in solving problems for a developer audience, and delivering software products to market
Skills to effectively establish and communicate product strategy & vision to all relevant stakeholders; ability to translate technology features into business benefits. Adept at navigating open-ended questions, effective at decision-making in a fast-paced team, relentless when identifying solutions and driving them to completion
Strong team skills and experience to bring together diverse views, a can-do attitude, optimism, humility, and willingness to embrace the unknown
Experience in mentoring on managing high calibre individual contributors
B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

Expert-level proficiency in at least one of: programmatic API experiences, IaC tools (e.g. Terraform or CloudFormation); expertise in multiple tools is a bonus
Experience collaborating with customers in highly regulated industries, understanding the unique challenges and requirements they face
Database experience - MongoDB experience is a plus
Last, but not least, desire to take an active role in innovation

Responsibilities

Own the vision, strategy and roadmap to ensure customers have a frictionless experience integrating MongoDB Atlas into their programmatic estate, and leveraging programmatic tools and patterns to scale their adoption of MongoDB
Advocate for our programmatic customers with a passion for automation, usability, and security
Drive collaboration across engineering, marketing, sales, and executive leadership
Lead the team to the right product decisions via deep engagement and research with customers, prospects, internal stakeholders, and partners
Actively maintain a view of how the market, competition, and technologies are evolving, and factor that into product direction
Be passionate about the data around your products, ensuring business impact can be measured and used to continually hone products towards excellence
Partner strategically with field and go-to-market teams in customer engagements