Product Manager - Repository Management

Working hours

Given that we are an all-remote company and hire almost anywhere in the world, we don’t have a location requirement for this role. However, your working hours must overlap with 8-5 pm Pacific Time for at least 10 hours/week.

Why this job is exciting

As our Product Manager of Repository Management, your mission is to define a customer-validated roadmap to ensure that Sourcegraph’s most critical prerequisite to providing awesome customer value—access to code—is robust, stable, and secure. You will partner with our largest enterprise customers as we scale our systems to meet their needs. And you’ll define best practices to ensure administrators can easily connect repositories of all shapes and sizes, from various code hosts to Sourcegraph. 

Within one month, you will…

• You will start building a trusting relationship with your team and peers.
• You will understand the what, why, and how of the projects that your team is working on, how those projects contribute to our company goals, as well as current status, risks, and mitigations.
• Be transparent in your internal and external communication. Sourcegraph is open source, so most discussions are public or in channels where you communicate directly with our customers.
• Maintain the roadmap, backlog, and curate and solicit feedback for the product area.

Within three months, you will…

• Uphold your side of the PM – EM partnership responsibilities.
• Add value to the user by surfacing real problems and improving the customer experience.
• Facilitate customer research to validate priorities, improve documentation, and define product requirements.
• Your peers in product and engineering are enthusiastic to work with you because you reliably follow-through with your commitments.
• You will be able to communicate the 1-year vision for your team.

Within six months, you will…

• Understand our customer target market deeply and what would meet their needs
• You will have improved planning, communication, and collaboration processes to help the team scale as we grow.
• You will celebrate the fact that your team has delivered key results in support of their objectives for the year.

Within one year, you will…

• You will collaborate with product and engineering leadership to develop the next set of ambitious goals that your org should work towards.
• Communicate product ideas clearly by focusing on the problems that are being solved, the outcomes, and how we will measure success.

About you 

You see yourself driving large scale, technical projects that impact how our largest customers configure Sourcegraph. You are obsessed with creating clarity out of highly complex systems. You get stuff done by translating customer needs into product upgrades that meaningfully improve our customers' experience with Sourcegraph. You share our values and are committed to embodying and promoting these values every day. 

Qualifications:

• 3+ years as a Product Manager 
• Relevant experience in B2B enterprise software
• You're comfortable collaborating and debating with engineers on your team to find the best solution to a problem
• You have strong product management experience working on a technical product 
• Deep passion for open source, developer tools and productivity enhancements
• You have strong engineering and technical background 
• Ability to stay focused on goals and strategically prioritize work while overcoming complicated day-to-day decisions that help your engineering team ship impactful capabilities

Nice to haves:

• Previous work experience in developer tooling
• Previous work experience in highly scalable distributed systems and/or Git/Source Control systems

Interview process [~5.5 hour total interview] 

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!

Intro Conversation Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…

• [30m] Recruiter Screen
• [30m] Hiring Manager Screen

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

• [1hr] Async - RFC Assignment
• [1hr] Product Interview
• [30m] Engineering Collaboration
• [1hr] Resume Deep Dive

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
• [30m] Leadership
  
  

And that’s it! 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.

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