Senior Product Manager

Gradle Technologies

5h • $160,000 - $240,000 • Remote

About The Position

AI is transforming software development, shifting the focus from code writing to orchestration, verification, and governance, with the toolchain becoming the primary constraint. Gradle Technologies is at the forefront of this evolution, developing Develocity, a context-engineering layer for AI-driven software delivery. Develocity is utilized by prominent software organizations like Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, and major global banks, enhancing delivery excellence through deep observability, accelerated build and test processes, and AI-powered intelligence across various build tools including Gradle, Maven, sbt, Bazel, npm, and Python. As an AI-native company, AI is integral to our operations, product philosophy, and future direction. We are committed to making Develocity's extensive data and domain expertise accessible to both humans and AI agents, emphasizing trust, evidence, and explainability. Our collaborations with foundations like Apache Software Foundation and OSS projects such as DuckDuckGo and Spring extend Develocity's benefits to the open-source community.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product management in a customer-facing, B2B context.
• Deep domain knowledge of observability.
• Prior experience as a software engineer or DevOps engineer.
• Proven ability to build and manage a pragmatic product roadmap.
• Use of Agentic AI tools in your daily workflow to increase productivity and output.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to leverage data to inform product decisions.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with developer tooling, build systems, or CI/CD products.
• Experience with building AI-powered products, agentic workflows, or LLM-based tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define and articulate a clear product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Toolchain Observability, considering the impact of AI-driven development on telemetry and team needs across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and customer interviews to identify opportunities and unmet needs in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Develop business cases for new product initiatives.
• Establish product direction for how AI agents and autonomous workflows leverage Develocity's toolchain observability capabilities.
• Collaborate with the AI strategy team to identify opportunities for AI-driven observability and diagnostics using Develocity's data and expertise.
• Stay updated on AI tooling advancements and evaluate their impact on telemetry, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
• Gather, analyze, and prioritize product requirements from customers, sales, support, and engineering.
• Translate high-level business requirements into prioritized functional requirements with clear value propositions.
• Make pragmatic roadmap prioritization decisions with clear rationale.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing on go-to-market strategies, product positioning, and messaging.
• Develop go-to-market materials to support enterprise sales.
• Partner with customer-facing teams to address customer pain points.
• Evangelize products through presentations to customers, partners, and internally.
• Engage with industry standards bodies and communities related to Developer and Agent Productivity Engineering and software delivery observability.
• Act as an external thought leader in the Toolchain Observability space.

Benefits

• Opportunities for growth in your career and in leadership responsibilities.
• In-person meetings, such as our annual company offsite, team meetings, and onboarding.
• Work from home in a remote-first environment.
• Competitive salaries and equity grants.

What This Job Offers

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