Product Manager [IC3]

Working hours

🌎 While we are an hire almost anywhere in the world, we have a preference for someone to reside in San Francisco for this role. However, if you feel qualified, we welcome you to apply regardless of location. No matter what, working hours must overlap with PST for at least 20 hours/week.

Preferred location:

• San Francisco

Why this job is exciting

To achieve our mission, we're looking for a Product Manager to help grow our values-driven team. Reporting to our CEO and co-founder, you'll work across all of Sourcegraph, including our Code Search platform and our AI coding assistant, Cody. You’ll have the opportunity to make a big impact as we level up our product to meet the increasingly high needs of our customers.

As a Product Manager, you will have more responsibility, upside, and growth potential than anywhere else otherwise comparable. We strive to make Sourcegraph the best company where exceptionally talented people can thrive. If you join us, we know you’ll make a big impact!  Here’s what we’re thinking:

📅 Within one month, you will…

• Begin 1:1’s with your manager, understand your 30-60-90 plan, meet & shadow current members of the Sourcegraph team, and delve into your product area 
• Learn Sourcegraph’s core product development processes. Observe and understand our specific development processes and how features move through the development cycle.
• Onboard and learn development software stack. Understand how they relate to the overall product life cycle.
• Effectively translate requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria. Identify requirement gaps needed for upcoming features. Groom and review the backlog with the team during planning sessions. Consult with the development team, stakeholders, internal teams, and customers to gather feedback on upcoming features.
• Learn internal product processes such as Win/Loss interviews, customer interviews, and customer feedback processes. 
• Set your goals with your manager and develop an action plan to achieve them

📅 Within three months, you will…

• Successfully lead a development team by running planning meetings, attending retrospectives and daily standups. Fully own the team backlog and identify high value features that align to the product vision. Leads requirements gathering effort on upcoming epics. 
• Work closely with designers and engineering leads to scope complexity of upcoming features. Understand technical complexity when approaching epics and larger initiatives. Understand tradeoffs of time to build vs value to the customer. Able to communicate and negotiate tradeoffs with stakeholders to drive prioritization. 
• Identify and scope appropriate MVP feature sets as they relate to the larger efforts of the product team. 
• Write and communicate release documentation highlighting the customer pain point and the end solution.  

📅 Within six months, you will…

• Drive the strategy for the product/set of features you’re responsible for, making a real-world impact on the adoption and retention of customers.
• Establish, track, and report progress on product metrics and KPIs for Product Leadership and internal stakeholders
• Identify key success metrics for a product surface and take ownership for evangelizing the surface with all Sourcegraph stakeholders.
• Conduct product feedback interviews with customers to solicit and gather feedback on existing features, as well as speak to new features coming up in development. 
• Become certified in presenting the Product Vision to customers. Become comfortable talking about product vision with external stakeholders.  

About you 

Our Product Managers are hard-working, results-driven, and passionate people advocates! We are product machines - passionate about turning feedback from our customers and turning that into better products. You are an enthusiastic, driven, and results-oriented Product Manager who shares our values and has a passion for all things Product.

🔍 Your skill-set:

• 5+ years working as a product manager.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to drive and influence product strategy across engineering, design, and distribution.
• Deep knowledge of the needs of enterprise customers, not just the core workflows but common supporting requirements like support, security, privacy and auditing.
• Experience working as a software engineer. This is a very technical role and requires software engineering experience to effectively communicate with engineers and make educated decisions affecting product scope and performance at scale.
• Strong understanding of Git and Git workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical writing ability, and use of data to back up your arguments.
• Ability to stay focused on goals and strategically prioritize work.
• Deep passion for developer tools and productivity enhancements.

Level

📊 This job is an IC3.  You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.

Compensation

💸 We pay you an above-average salary because we want to hire the best people who are fully focused on helping Sourcegraph succeed, not worried about paying bills. As an open and transparent company that values competitive compensation, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph teammate.

Your salary is determined by your pay band for the IC3 job level. For determining pay bands, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources, along with your location zone, and target the high-end of the range to ensure we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world. Both U.S. and international locations are divided into one of four zones, determined by the cost of labor index for each area. The salary for a successful candidate will be based on level, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and location zone. Please note that the salaries below may be adjusted in the future.

💰 The target compensation for this role is based on the IC3 pay band for your zone. The start of the IC3 pay band for each zone is listed below:

• Zone 1: $178,000 USD
• Zone 2: $142,400 USD
• Zone 3: $106,800 USD
• Zone 4: $71,200 USD

Please speak with a recruiter for additional information regarding zone locations.

📈 In addition to our cash compensation, we offer equity (because when we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too) and generous perks & benefits.

Interview process 

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role (you can read more about the types of interviews in our Handbook). It may look like a lot of steps, but rest assured that we move quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we’re the right fit for you… Interviewing is a two-way street, after all! 

We expect the interview process to take 5 hours in total.

👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…

• [30m] Recruiter Screen - Devon Coords
• [15m] Hiring Manager intro - Quinn Slack

🧑‍💻 Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team…

• [60m] Team Collaboration - Kevin Chen
• [45m] Engineering Collaboration - Peter Guy & Matt Manela
• [60m] Overview of Past Projects (requires preparation) - Kevin Chen, Rob Rhyne & Taylor Sperry
• [60m] Resume Deep Dive - Quinn Slack

🎉 Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you meet cross-functional partners and gain a better understanding of our business and values holistically…

• [30m] Values
• We check references and conduct your background check

Please note - you are welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didn’t get to meet during the interview process.