Group Product Manager

What’s the opportunity for a Group Product Manager at Gearset?

• Take ownership of a key piece of our overall product strategy, conducting the diagnosis and forming the plan to help us achieve our stated goals. 
• Report directly to our VP Product and partner closely with the other Group Product Managers and the CPO.
• Manage, coach and develop a team of product managers who will report to you and are all contributors to achieving the group's strategy. 
• Collaborate with Product Marketing to ensure we are driving a differentiated and defensible story in the market, positioning us as the leaders in the Salesforce DevOps space. 
• Partner closely with the go-to-market teams, driving a commercial focus and ensuring the product strategy supports our revenue and growth objectives. Ensure these teams are equipped to successfully sell and enable our customers. 
• Build relationships with partners, vendors and contributors in the Salesforce ecosystem to further our shared product goals.

What you’ll achieve

• You’ll have diagnosed and implemented a product strategy for the whole DevOps Lifecycle Group for the next 12 months, which plays to the strengths of the individual products whilst unlocking a cohesive story of how these capabilities further the goals of teams shipping software. 
• You’ll have likely taken a product from 0 to 1, doubled down on investments in our current offerings and deployed tactics such as commercial partnerships to achieve your product strategy.
• You’ll have demonstrated progress against commercial and product goals and have keen awareness of how you are contributing to, or learning from, the overall business performance. 
• You’ll have built a high momentum operating model with your teams, translating the strategy into a coherent tactical plan, which is proven out by a regular cadence of shipping to learn.
• You’ll have partnered closely with product marketing, to define and execute a go to market strategy, focusing deeply on how we differentiate and focus on the JTBD. 
• You’ll have developed and coached your product team to be doing their best work.
• You’ll be viewed as an exemplar of leadership, continually demonstrating our core values and product principles.

About you

• Have been in a Group Product Manager, or equivalent position, for a couple of years or more with a proven track record of developing and owning a key area of an overall product strategy.
• Experienced in managing teams of 2-4 people, including hiring and coaching the team to success. 
• Strong background in DevOps, having worked on and built products in this problem space.
• Are able to conduct deep strategy diagnosis, going broad and deep, considering a wide range of quantitative and qualitative signals to really get to the crux of the problem and define a crisp strategy.
• Have an outstanding product sense, with an ability to uncover the core jobs to be done and demonstrate cognitive empathy for users.
• Have experience of taking products through the full product lifecycle, from discovery through to validation and ideally launch, with a mix of problem complexity and scope. 
• Enjoy talking to users, and have an infectious passion for building products that solve clear user problems in delightful ways

Great to haves

• Experience working in the Salesforce ecosystem
• Experience of helping scale a product function by forming a new group
• Some software engineering experience, even if only limited