WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU
Software has driven huge gains in productivity and quality of life. Many of these gains have been in the workplace—great tools help companies run better and make work much more fulfilling for employees. Despite these benefits, it is still far too hard to build high-quality software—only a small number of people today have the skills and time to do so. As a result, most of the world’s problems that should be solved by software today, aren’t. At Retool we’re building the tools and infrastructure to help teams and individuals build better quality software, faster. We’d love your help.
Tens of thousands of customers rely on us to run their businesses. The Retool Product team helps build the products that make our customers successful with Retool and set us up to achieve our long-term mission. You’ll be joining as one of the founding members of the Product team
WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a PM you’ll help to set product vision and roadmap, collaborate with design and engineering teams to build the right product, and work with go-to-market teams to get our products into the hands of our customers. You’ll work with your engineering and design counterparts to effectively communicate the direction and status of your product area to the rest of the organization. At Retool, product managers are highly flexible, technically-minded, and will adjust to whatever is needed to deliver great products to our customers.
You may be building the best frontend component library, rethinking the deployment, source control, and testing experience, or setting a vision to help Retool further extend further down the stack with easier-to-build backends.
WHO YOU'll WORK WITH
You’ll be working with almost all Retools but will be most often partnering with engineers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams to deliver products to our customers.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:
- Serve as a founding member of the product function at Retool
- Help set the direction of Retool’s product
- Work with engineering and product to set the roadmap for your product area
- Understand our customers by talking with customers, a lot, interacting with go-to-market teams, and digging into product data. Help the rest of the organization understand our customers as well.
- Develop effective product briefs that help us build the right products
- Collaborate with go-to-market to launch new features and products to our customers
- Identify new opportunities and product areas for Retool to pursue
- Measure, analyze and report to the organization on the success of our products
- Help build the foundations for a high-performing Product team at Retool
THE SKILLSET YOU'll BRING:
- 6+ years of product management experience at a fast-growing technology company
- Proven track record of having successfully shipped large scope products with impact
- Ability to work collaboratively with engineering, design and go-to-market teams
- Strong customer-first mindset, with a talent for translating customer problems into the right product solutions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong ownership mindset to do whatever is needed to deliver the best product to our customers
- Deep curiosity and knowledge of your customers and products
- Ability to take on open-ended problems in unstructured environments
- Familiarity with SQL, Javascript, and APIs. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to speak the language of caching layers, databases, and pull requests
- Prefer technical and customer-facing backgrounds
- Prefer experience in building products for developers and in priority domains such as development and source control frameworks, access controls, and launching new products