Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Transform product notes written by the founder into epics, stories, and actionable engineering tasks.

• Consolidate epics into releases with achievable timelines, while defending against scope creep and unrealistic timelines.

• Keep the release plan updated as a dynamic document, adjusting it transparently as circumstances change.

• Craft acceptance criteria for each epic, defining what "done" means based on the product notes.

• Establish release readiness criteria, including necessary test coverage, behavior-equivalence verification, governance hooks, and customer-facing documentation.

• Approve epics prior to their release; no epic is released without your endorsement.

• Make day-to-day prioritization decisions within a release, determining the order of bug fixes, epic dependencies, and what to cut when required.

• Escalate issues to founders only when they cross strategic boundaries; within those boundaries, you make the decisions.

• Review the product daily as a customer would, identifying issues before they reach customers and directing them to the appropriate engineer.

• Maintain an ongoing quality standard that the team can reference, using the question "Would I demo this today?" as a benchmark.

• Lead scrum meetings, including planning sessions, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

• Oversee the entire release process, including cutting, validating, shipping, and conducting post-release reviews.

• Collaborate with DevOps and engineering on the deployment pipeline, ensuring it remains clean and repeatable.

• While the founders determine the release schedule, you manage the shipping process.

• Identify blockers and risks early enough to take action, ensuring no surprises on release day.

• After each release, analyze what was shipped, what didn't land, and what requires iteration. Document the retrospective, share it, and implement the lessons learned.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5 to 8 years of experience in product management within a B2B SaaS or developer tools company.

• Have successfully managed the complete delivery of a product from scope to shipping and post-release iteration at least once.

• Excellent written communication skills are essential; you will produce acceptance criteria, release plans, scrum notes, decision documents, and retrospectives.

• Background in engineering, having built and shipped production software for at least 3 years before transitioning to product management.

• Ability to read Python comfortably and other common languages (Java, TypeScript, SQL) sufficiently to follow code reviews or design documents.

• Proficiency in design reviews for distributed systems, agent orchestration, or data pipelines, bringing opinions rather than just questions.

• Treat commitments seriously; if a release date is set, you defend or renegotiate it openly without slipping silently.

• Conduct scrum meetings efficiently, focusing on removing blockers rather than filling time.

• Consider acceptance criteria, release plans, and retrospectives as important deliverables, not just paperwork.

• Comfortable working in a founder-led product environment where strategic direction comes from above, and you are responsible for execution.

• Proactive in decision-making; making and revising decisions is preferred over deferring them.

• Strong English communication skills, both written and spoken, as you will participate in product reviews and discussions affecting customers.

• Available to work during US business hours from India.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Flexible work arrangements

• Professional development opportunities