Staff Product Manager
About Us
dbt Labs was founded in 2016 to empower analysts to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Since then, we’ve grown to become one of the leading brands in the analytics industry. Our product, dbt, is used by thousands of companies. dbt Labs is a remote-first, values-driven company with a globally distributed team. You can learn more about our values here.
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
What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews via Zoom unless accommodations are needed):
- Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
- Interview with Hiring Manager
- Take Home Task
- There Team Interviews (1:1s) that cover the following:
- Execution
- Product Strategy
- Collaboration/Partnerships
- Final interview with one of our Values Carriers
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Who we are
At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.
Specifically, we believe that:
- Code, not graphical user interfaces, is the best abstraction to express complex analytic logic
- Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
- Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
- Analytic code itself — not just analytics tools — will increasingly be open source
It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today, there are 9,000 companies using dbt every week, 30,000 practitioners in the dbt Community Slack, and 1,800 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We’re backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. We recently raised our series D: read the announcement here!
dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway! Please reach out to us directly at recruiting@dbtlabs.com if you need assistance or an accommodation.
Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here.
dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time.