Language Ecosystem Product Manager

Geneva / Remote (Europe)

Our client is a highly successful and fast-growing company, providing software solutions that enable developers and development teams to write clean code and remediate existing code organically so they can focus on activities they love and maximise the value they generate for businesses. The company’s open source and commercial solutions support 29 programming languages, and are trusted by 300’000 organizations globally.

We are looking for passionate and experienced Product Managers with a deep understanding of Java that will provide an awesome user experience to millions of developers around the world. You will be part of the Product Management team that drives the vision and roadmaps of the company’s solutions.

The client’s culture is based on collaboration, respect, kindness and continuous learning and improvement. They value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly and laidback, allowing for a healthy work-life balance with a hybrid work policy and flexible hours. They believe in people, excellence and delivery, with a key message to push others to be best in class in whatever they do. They cultivate passion and support ongoing learning of new skills in an ever-changing industry.

Your impact

You will take care of the overall developer experience for the company’s products through the prism of a single programming language and its entire ecosystem, ensuring consistent value delivery to developers and their teams according to the specific characteristics of the language in terms of IDEs, CI/CD services, frameworks and libraries, etc.

To achieve this perfect match, we are looking for passionate Product Managers who will research, clarify and prioritize the needs for developers and translate those needs across the product line. In doing so, you will become an expert user of the client’s products, from very high-level features down to technical aspects of individual rules. You will join the Product Management team, which is composed of other passionate Product Managers eager to collaborate with you. And you will also work closely with engaged Engineering teams to ensure that the proposed solutions meet the expected outcome to collectively deliver the best products to help development teams write clean and safe code.

What You’ll Be Doing

Contribute to the product visions and communicate about it, internally and externally.
Research, clarify and prioritize opportunities to build and maintain an effective roadmap.
Interact with users and customers on the company’s product forum to support them, integrate feedback and identify opportunities.
Align with the engineering teams on the problems to solve and support them during the end-to-end development stage of the solutions.
Sync with the engineering teams to ensure that there is a good balance among innovation, consolidation and stability.
Work closely with other product managers to design cross-product features.
Follow what’s happening in your language ecosystem to anticipate changes and feed your thoughts with potential innovations.
Attend conferences and give talks if you like.
Help the Product Management team grow in its organization, tools, and processes.

What You’ll Demonstrate:

Passionate about one or more of the company’s flagship languages, and how to write clean code in those languages.
Experience in software product management, preferably in an agile context.
Highly autonomous and pragmatic.
Open-minded and very positive can-do attitude.
Comfortable in dealing with change, complexity and uncertainty.
Self-confident enough to challenge the status quo as well as to receive feedback.
Leadership: you take initiative and demonstrate your ability to lead a subject from beginning to end.
Swiss or EU work status necessary.

Contact
Peter Wharton
Antal International
pwharton@antal.com