Senior Product Manager - Platform

Honeycomb.io

1d • $146,500 - $172,500 • Remote

About The Position

Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!
If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.
We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote

Requirements

• Endlessly curious - a proactive problem solver.
• Seek data to inform your decision-making and allow that to inform how you prioritize work.
• Never stop asking questions and seek answers from your customers, your colleagues and your own research.
• Thoughtful communicator and product leader. Clear and regular communication (including a willingness to give and receive feedback) is a fundamental skill.
• Systems thinker and understand and can illustrate the interconnectedness of capabilities as their cohesive whole, from backend services to design systems.
• Equally at home setting a vision and identifying small pieces of value that can be delivered iteratively and quickly.
• Enjoy shepherding product work through its entire lifecycle, from early prototype to GA.
• Find ambiguity inspiring and are driven to navigate your way through it to a place of clarity.
• Value making space for learning before pushing toward a solution.
• Comfortable and interested in technically complex spaces, whether it’s a background being a developer yourself or a history working on technical SaaS products.
• Strong preference to have experience working in or as a user of tracing, metrics, monitoring, or analytics software.
• Excited to build the next generation of tracing technology!

Responsibilities

• Own driving the work and outcomes across ingest, querying, data retrieval, storage and our internal design system while aligning that work in a way which facilitates and enables better product delivery to our customers.
• Understand a range of stakeholder needs from our customers to our internal teams and prioritize scalable, reliable and maintainable capabilities in service of the long term company and product strategic visions.
• Collaborate closely with engineering in platform and with engineering, product and design in our cross-functional teams.
• Understand the whole developer experience space at Honeycomb and how best to support it with platform fundamentals.
• Build relationships and facilitate impactful technical conversations across the company, including partnering with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. Staying close to folks in the field is a high priority for this role.
• Naturally gravitate toward empathetically understanding users, what pains them and pleases them, and be relentless in advocating for their best interests in the product.
• Take directional guidance from key stakeholders and use it as the basis for chartering your own product discovery adventures.
• Contribute to a community of practice with your fellow Product Managers, fostering a culture of cohesion and knowledge-sharing.
• Align the field and product engineering behind your vision, increasing measurable customer outcomes, and being recognized as an SME for the organization.

Benefits

• Generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• Transparent pay based on levels relative to experience
• Unlimited PTO
• Distributed-first mindset and culture
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed