Product Manager – Monitoring and Management

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the product strategy and roadmap for PMM, ensuring alignment with Percona's overall product vision.

• Engage directly with customers and the community to gain insights into their challenges, validate concepts, and discover new product opportunities.

• Perform market research and competitive analysis to influence product direction.

• Convert customer issues into well-defined product requirements and priorities.

• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Design, Documentation, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to deliver exceptional product experiences.

• Prioritize features and make informed trade-offs based on customer value, engineering effort, and strategic objectives.

• Establish success metrics and leverage customer feedback, product telemetry, and usage data to inform product decisions.

• Work in close partnership with engineering throughout the entire product lifecycle, from initial discovery to final release.

• Serve as a representative for PMM both internally and externally through blog posts, webinars, conferences, customer meetings, and community involvement.

• Assist in promoting the adoption of PMM within the open source community and enterprise organizations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven track record in managing technical products, especially developer tools, infrastructure, platform, or observability products.

• Demonstrated capability in delivering successful software products from conception to launch.

• Strong technical knowledge of modern infrastructure, databases, cloud-native solutions, and observability technologies, with the ability to translate complex technical ideas into product strategies and customer benefits.

• Experience working collaboratively across various functions, including engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success.

• Deep customer empathy, enabling the translation of customer issues into products that provide genuine value.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, making decisions with limited information, and iterating quickly based on customer insights.

• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.

• Proficient in English.

• Willingness to travel occasionally for customer visits, conferences, and company events.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work hours

• Various paid time off programs

• All necessary equipment for your remote office

• Funding for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)

• Ongoing connectivity allowances

• Opportunity to take part in our equity incentive plan

• Healthy work/life balance benefits, including The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility

• PAVE volunteering program

• Women Transforming Technology