Product Manager, Community Products

About Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow empowers the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. More than 100 million people visit Stack Overflow every month, making it one of the most-visited websites in the world. 

Best known for its public platform, Stack Overflow helps people find the answers they need, when they need them. That includes serving up relevant technologies to the community through Stack Overflow Advertising, providing direct access to technology-specific subject matter experts with Collectives™, sharing more about companies as future employers, and helping teams scale with its market-leading knowledge sharing and collaboration platform, Stack Overflow for Teams.

This remote position is open to individuals located in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Germany.

At Stack Overflow, our mission is to serve developers and technologists. Whether we’re helping them get answers to their questions, connect with their communities, or work more efficiently with their team, we build products that make millions of developers’ lives better every day. As a product manager at Stack Overflow, you’ll create and build inclusive products that directly impact the work and the lives of those developers.

We’re looking for a product manager to join our Community Products organization where you will lead the Collectives product team, and help drive one of our key focus areas. The ideal candidate has prior experience building products for consumers or businesses at scale, has worked with online communities, and is excited to make an impact by growing our product ecosystem.

You’ll have the opportunity to do a lot. Here’s what you can expect during your first year:

• First Month: Get onboarded and brought up to speed on our current plans. You’ll spend a lot of time learning about our products, building rapport with the product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and community teams, and contributing to small features. During this time, you’ll be working closely with our existing Community Product product teams.
  
  
• Next 3 Months: Establish your product team. Acquire a deep understanding of the biggest opportunities and pain points for our various user segments through past and new user research. This will include expanding our product suite to better address their needs, and improve their overall experience on the platform. You’ll speak with users and/or customers, write specs, run experiments, and iterate on ideas with your team and stakeholders.
  
  
• Next 8 months: You will take a leadership role developing the long-term roadmap for your product team. You’ll be involved not just in product development, but in defining long-term strategy, improving our processes, and advocating for all developers and technologists that use Stack Overflow.
  
  

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with the product team and key stakeholders to execute on the overall strategy for your product area.
• Use agile best practices to establish your product team within the Community Products organization.
• Build a product roadmap, maintain a backlog of projects, and manage the priorities for your product team
• Partner with product research & design to understand the core issues that our users and customers care about
• Partner with our engineering team to build and deliver features and improvements
• Work closely with various stakeholders across sales, marketing, and community to align strategy and priorities
• Innovate on our products through workshops, research, and experiments
• Define and monitor metrics to determine the effectiveness of features, and administer split tests to measure overall impact
• Interact with our community of developers and customers around the world to gather ideas and feedback

What we need to see:

• 4+ years in a product management role
• Experience working on a B2C product at scale, a community based product, or two-sided marketplaces. 
• Familiarity with Stack Overflow or other developer communities
• Excellent spec-writing skills with a clear ability to break down complex problems into smaller, manageable pieces
• An understanding of the technical, design, and UX implications of your functional requirements
• Experience with usability testing and A/B tests
• Demonstrated written communication skills, whether that's online posts, specs, blogging, or anything else

Also note:

• We’re a distributed, remote team and you’ll be part of a work culture that emphasizes online & asynchronous communication with minimal meetings and ceremonies
• We’re generally very flexible on working hours, though we do ask everyone on the team to maintain an overlap with (at least) 10AM - 1PM US Eastern time
• This remote position is open to individuals located in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Germany.
• We don’t consider applications without cover letters - please make sure to include yours and talk about why you want to work here!

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive Base Salary between $120k and 160k
• Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
• Equity for all employees at all level
• Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Health & wellness stipend
• Home Internet stipend
• Professional allocation for your growth and development
• Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, and Overdrive

If your role is not located in one of our offices…. We’ll reimburse you up to $2,000 to set up a great home office. And, you will receive an additional $400 allowance for your home office set up on each anniversary date.

Work Environment:

We’re a remote-friendly team. Whether you work remotely or work in one of our offices,  you’ll be part of a team culture that emphasizes online communication (Slack, GitHub, Hangouts, Zoom, Stack Overflow for Teams).

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

Diverse teams build better products.

Legally, we need you to know this:

Stack Exchange, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity

But we want to add this:

We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can and we actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it.

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