Staff Product Manager

About the Role:

As a PM at dbt Labs, you will work cross-functionally to help guide products from ideation to launch by connecting the technical needs of users and the business needs of our company. Product managers help define the vision, goals, and strategy we pursue in concert with engineers, designers, sales, and partners that move the practice of analytics engineering forward. Specifically, the Staff Product Manager will focus on the ways that a developer (an analytics engineer) will engage with dbt.

About the Developer Experience team:

The Developer Experience team is working to to enable the best experience for data practitioners to develop with dbt. This experience of authoring code and using dbt should be:

• Seamless - The experience feels smooth, unobtrusive; performant, and reliable
• Accessible - There is a low barrier to entry with a holistic path to advance for developers. We lower the floor and raise the ceiling on what users can do with dbt.
• Delightful - The experience is fun and engaging. Users should be excited to contribute to dbt projects

In this role, you can expect to:

• Act as the key product owner for developer experience products at dbt Labs, including browser-based development experience (Cloud IDE), local development experience (CLI) and discovery tool for development (generated data documentation)
• Craft the product strategy and vision of dbt Labs’ developer experience. Deeply understand the nature of developer experience for dbt and it contributes to the overall strategy of dbt Labs
• Measure and be accountable for desired product outcomes, including product adoption/engagement and satisfaction/sentiment
• Set the product roadmap for Developer Experience and connect it to our broader product and business goals. Make challenging tradeoffs between feature completeness and time-to-market, and translate the product roadmap into clear and precise product requirements
• Drive the delivery of Developer Experience capabilities by working closely with engineering, design, GTM, and community to brainstorm, prioritize, build, and ship enterprise-grade functionality to some of the largest and most sophisticated data teams on the planet
• Engage with users (customers, prospects, community practitioners) directly at different stages of software-development lifecycle, including user experience research, beta launch, and post-launch validation
• Create/contribute to/maintain process for product execution (e.g. SDLC process and sprint ceremony), for internal collaboration (e.g. collect and synthesize feedback from customer-facing teams), and for product delivery (e.g. launch plans, internal enablement, and product analytics)
• Speak precisely to the upcoming initiatives and value propositions on the roadmap with internal and external stakeholders (to customers and prospects and at public events)

You are a good fit if you:

• Have worked in a relevant field for 6+ years (eg. engineering, analytics, design, SaaS, open source)
• Have proven success in product management at a data-focused organization
• Are deeply quantitative and enjoy rolling up your sleeves and exploring the data and connecting it to strategic initiatives
• Have experience using dbt and writing SQL. You are already an expert in dbt, or aim to become one
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator
• Have a bias towards action and have an ability to execute quickly

You'll have an edge if:

• You have a strong understanding of the modern data landscape
• Have previous experience working at open-core companies or enterprise SaaS

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary: $196,000-$265,000
• Equity Stake*
• Benefits: In the US, dbt Labs offers unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!), 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution, excellent healthcare, paid parental leave and a home office stipend. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package.

*Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations