Senior Product Manager, Chronosphere
$175-215k
Plus company bonus and equity
Redefining cloud-native monitoring
Open for applications
Redefining cloud-native monitoring
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$175-215k
Plus company bonus and equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To redefine monitoring for the cloud-native world by building the world’s most scalable, reliable and customizable monitoring platform.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience as a product manager on an enterprise software product
- A track record of delivering software with agile processes and tight feedback loops
- Experience working with customers and prospects
- Familiarity with building and operating software as a service
- The ability to turn customer research into a coherent strategy
- Strong focus on the small details that make products loved and usable
- Experience partnering with UX to build delightful features
- No fear of diving deep into the world of cloud-native monitoring and troubleshooting
What the job involves
- Chronosphere is looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our tracing solution
- You’ll operate with one foot in the factory and one foot in the field, bridging between our customers and our engineering team, building feedback loops, and testing hypotheses
- You must be comfortable with a deeply technical product that serves a deeply technical audience
- Along with building great products, you’ll drive the messaging and storytelling for how these products help solve problems for developers
- We run two lanes: a validation track to choose and specify what to build, and an agile build track to get it delivered. You’ll be responsible for both
- Perform primary research, interviewing end-users and buyers
- Build a researched perspective on current customer and future prospects needs
- Deeply understand the competition
- Set priorities and shape the roadmap
- Communicate priorities and the roadmap, and align the team around them
- Convert concepts into buildable projects
- Act as product owner for a Scrum team working on observability features
- Manage the backlog, groom stories, and break down tasks
- Coordinate with product marketing on positioning and messaging
- Drive clarity
- You will start off in your role understanding the current roadmap and plans as a way to learn our product and gain insight to customer needs
- While you execute on the short-term roadmap, you’ll establish your independent perspective on the state and evolution of the tracing market through ride-alongs in customer conversations, doing your own research and internal conversations with experts
- Following this initial period, you will take full ownership of the tracing solution and roadmap and start to drive scrum meetings, sprint planning, and the like
- This involves ensuring you are ahead of the game when it comes to articulating and writing problem statements and solution narratives targeted both at developers and stakeholders
- The main success criteria of this role is to be able to chart the best possible path and execute on those plans and deliver value to customers
- An ongoing task thereafter is to take these new capabilities to the next level by staying close to customers and prospects
Our take
As companies switch to cloud-native strategies, the main problem they face is how to store, keep track of and analyse data in real-time. Chronosphere offers scalable cloud monitoring services custom-built for managing cloud-native infrastructure and apps.
The company is entering a field that is on the rise, albeit crowded with both startups and leaders like Microsoft Cloud Monitoring and Amazon Cloudwatch. Chronosphere's edge likely lies in the cost efficiency of their service, and what seems a relatively transparent billing model. In addition, the founders are using Chronosphere to continue developing their open-source metrics engine M3.
This open-source product has proven a draw for both investors and customers, even when up against tech industry giants. The company's significant growth and funding (most recently from CrowdStrike) efforts have resulted in a $1.6bn valuation, Chronosphere has managed to remain highly competitive in a rapidly expanding market as it further optimizes its product.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2023
$115m
SERIES C
Oct 2021
$200m
SERIES C
Total funding: $369.4m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Flexible PTO
- Training & Career Growth
- Flexible Work Enviroment
- Commuter Benefits
- Free Lunches
Company values
- No Egos
- Enduring Camaraderie & Care
- Trust & Transparency
- Reliability & Responsibility
- Nothing is Impossible
Company HQ
Garment District, New York, NY
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Founders
Martin Mao
(CEO)After working in Software Engineering for Microsoft, Call Design, Google, and Woods Bagot, Martin served as Technical Lead for Amazon Web and Director of Pure Interactive. They then spent 4 years at Uber, before co-founding Chronosphere.
Rob Skillington
(CTO)Rob worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft and Groupon before spending 5 years at Uber as Staff Software Engineer.
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