Project Manager, Sumo Logic

PLG

$127-172k

JIRA
Trello
Asana
Mid and Senior level
Austin
Sumo Logic

Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps

Be an early applicant

Sumo Logic

Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Be an early applicant

$127-172k

JIRA
Trello
Asana
Mid and Senior level
Austin

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Company mission

Sumo Logic's mission is to create the leading machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence for modern applications.

Role

Who you are

  • 4-6 years experience experience in project management for marketing, PLG or product
  • BS/BA or equivalent expertise and business acumen derived from experience
  • Attention to detail and exceptionally organized; process-oriented
  • Ability to gracefully juggle multiple tasks on multiple timelines with challenging conflicts of interest
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - both written and verbal
  • Level-headed when unforeseen circumstances arise
  • Ability to translate ambiguity into concise direction and expectation
  • Knowledge of B2B marketing techniques and methodologies
  • Jira, Asana, Trello or similar experience
  • Project Management Institute and/or Agile Scrum Certified
  • Advanced Google Workplace tools skill

Desirable

  • Desire to contribute to a culture as well as a team process. Understanding of the critical role process plays in culture
  • Experience in the Developer Tools category or Product-Led Growth team environment
  • Desire to grow into a career in operations, project management and related field with strong interest in cultural development

What the job involves

  • The Project Manager, PLG position will report into the SVP, Growth and be responsible for ensuring the flow and rhythm of projects moves through all teams associated with the Product-leg Growth organization
  • You will align growth marketers, inside sales reps, product managers, content creators, developers and sales operations team members to PLG priorities in order to maximize team output and efficiency so we can attract the greatest number of new users to our free trial
  • You will work cross-functionally with PLG, Marketing, Sales, Product and Operations and deliver reporting used to make resource decisions
  • Guide work through the PLG team, track, manage and execute on PLG projects
  • Lead prioritization meetings with leadership, as well as weekly check-ins and planning meetings with all PLG cross functional team members
  • Communicate needs, timelines, and feedback between stakeholders to drive action. Monitor projects plans, updates and statuses
  • Facilitate, manage, schedule and conduct project kick-off meetings to scope requests and ideal outcomes; manage project check-in meetings to ensure deliverables are on track and roadblocks are removed
  • Identify and report back potential project roadblocks. Recommend alternatives to stakeholders
  • Create individual Asana tasks with stakeholders needed to complete projects and manage internal resources for the execution of projects
  • Manage and administer our Asana board and workflow. Set up and run our Agile/Scrum methodology
  • Lead PLG team sprint planning meetings and agile process adoption
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment while delivering high-quality work on time
  • Contribute meaningfully to team meetings by bringing forth workflow issues and providing solution ideas
  • Partner with leadership to manage prioritization, buy-in, cross-functional socialization, resourcing and cross-team collaboration
  • Measure PLG work capacity and provide feedback on bandwidth availability
  • Partner with date teams to create throughput monitoring, team capacity and retro data at the team and individual level

Our take

Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. More than 2,000 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic, including Pokemon, Canary, and Greenhouse.

Customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.

After its IPO in 2020, February 2023 saw Sumo Logic agree to a $1.7 billion valued acquisition deal from Francisco Partners. This comes after a year that saw its stock drop by 40%. This marks an exciting new chapter for Sumo Logic, its parent company has a track record for acquiring successful tech and software businesses such as MyHeritage and Renaissance Learning. Exemplifying its potential in its new Francisco Partners era, Sumo Logic was named a "Challenger" company in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management.

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Top investors

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22% female employees

-7% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

May 2019

$110m

SERIES G

Jun 2017

$75.2m

SERIES F

Total funding: $340.2m

Company benefits

  • Vision & Dental Benefits
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • We’re in it with our customers - We all play an essential part in providing a critical service that our customers, and we ourselves, depend on, creating an incredibly aligned relationship
  • Bring light to dark - We seek to provide transparency internally and externally, because information and context produces better decisions and removes uncertainty
  • One single agenda - We celebrate individuals who put the success of the team first, leave their personal agendas at the door, and work with complete integrity with everyone
  • Work with heart - We respect each other, assume good intentions, embrace diverse backgrounds and thinking, and believe time with family and friends is vital to our lives and well-being
  • Learning culture - We take calculated risks, learn from our mistakes, iterate and do better each time; we believe disciplined, reliable execution is essential to market leadership

Company HQ

Redwood City, CA

Leadership

Previously worked for 9 years at ArcSight, holding various positions such as Lead Software Engineer, Software Development Manager and Chief Architect, Director of Engineering

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