Senior Product Manager - Developer Foundations

Kraken Technologies Limited; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a proactive Senior Product Manager for their Developer Foundations team. This role involves defining product strategies and collaborating effectively with technical stakeholders to enhance the developer experience. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and a basic understanding of technical concepts. Experience in a fast-paced environment is advantageous. Join us in creating impactful improvements for our internal teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with deployment pipelines, testing methodologies, and databases is a plus.
• Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience in user research and product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy with technical stakeholders.
• Measure the success of your domain and communicate value to the company.
• Shape the high-level roadmap and prioritize feature development.
• Manage dependencies across product teams and drive collaboration.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to recognize priorities

Understanding of technical concepts

Experience in a fast-paced start-up or scale-up

Curiosity and willingness to engage

Ability to work in a dynamic environment

Job description

Overview

Senior Product Manager - Developer Foundations

We’re a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy, from optimising renewable generation and creating a more intelligent grid to enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences. We’re looking for a proactive and driven Product Manager to join our Developer Foundations team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with experienced engineers to tackle problems that are platform-wide. You’ll need to be a self-starter who sees a problem and wants to fix it, working methodically to ensure projects go from inception to completion with the customer at the center of everything we do.

You’ll be well organised, work clearly, and collaborate empathetically to deliver the best possible outcomes.

The role

You’ll work in the Developer Foundations team, building products and tooling to improve the software engineering standards and the developer experience at Kraken, ensuring that we can deliver fast and with confidence for our clients. You’ll identify the most pressing problems to solve while ensuring focus aligns with our company goals.

The domain for which the team is responsible includes deployment pipelines, application architecture, internal tooling, documentation, testing, security and training.

This is a high impact, high profile role for someone who wants to make a marked difference to the internal developer experience at Kraken, ensuring their needs are recognised and making their experience of working here even better while enabling the platform to scale.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with (mostly) technical stakeholders across the business, and carry out user research to define the product strategy and ensure it aligns with business objectives and evolving needs across different markets
• Identify and own ways to measure the success of your domain, and communicate the value of your team’s delivery to the wider company
• Work with the development team to shape the high-level roadmap and prioritise feature development across the platform
• Enable delivery of the roadmap by providing continued clarity around prioritisation and ensuring that implementation has the best impact for our users
• Coordinate across product teams to proactively manage dependencies and drive cross-team collaboration to deliver outcomes
• Act as the bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders
• Continue to embed product practice across Developer Foundations and the broader Platform teams

What you’ll need

• To be able to recognise what needs to be done (and, just as importantly, what doesn’t need to be done right now) based on the overall goals of the team and our strategic direction
• To have a basic understanding of and an interest in technical concepts such as deployment pipelines, testing methodologies and databases
• To be able to work in a dynamic environment; fantastic ideas can come from everywhere in Kraken Technologies, so you’ll need to be able to spot and harness them
• Experience in a fast-paced start-up or scale-up would be a plus
• To be curious and willing to roll up your sleeves
• To have excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to interact with people with varying levels of technical knowledge

Nice to haves

• Experience in building internal-facing tooling
• Knowledge of the energy industry, whether in the UK or globally

Equal Opportunity

Kraken is a certified Great Place to Work in several countries. We are committed to equal opportunity employment and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. We consider all applicants regardless of race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. U.S. based candidates can learn more about their EEO rights here.

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