At Stack Overflow, we are obsessed with serving developers. Whether we’re helping developers get answers to their questions or find a new job, we build products that make millions of developers' lives better every day.  As a Product Manager for Stack Overflow Careers, you’ll work with our passionate Developer, Design, Marketing, Sales and Community teams, bridging the gap between the technical and business worlds.  You’ll spend most of your time building the product that employers interact with: posting jobs, searching profiles, and managing their recruiting pipeline.  While the product’s end users are employers, we believe the policies we put in place should be reflective of an outstanding developer experience.  If candidates are deliriously happy on our platform, employers will be as well.

You’ll have the opportunity to do a lot.  You can expect during the first year:

• First Month: Get onboarded and brought up to speed on our current roadmap.  You’ll spend a lot of time learning about our products, building rapport with the product, marketing, community and sales teams, and building small features.

• Next 3 Months: Start taking on projects of your own from our roadmap.  You’ll take an idea and turn it into a prototype, talk to the community on Meta, pitch your project to the rest of the company, and run a detailed testing plan.

• Next 6 months: You can expect to being taking ownership over the employer product, Stack Overflow Careers.  You’ll be involved not just in product development, but in improving on our processes and planning the roadmap for your team.

We like to work in public.  Not only does that mean being open within the company about what the product team is building, we try and bring the community in as soon as we’re able.  Some examples of big projects we’re working on with the community presently:

• Documentation


• Teams


• Jobs on Stack Overflow

We’re looking to hire the best person wherever you are in the world. We work remotely (see http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-in-working-remotely) so you can work from home and interact with the team over Google Hangouts and chat, usually during US or European working hours. We have offices in New York, London and Denver, so if you’re in (or want to relocate to) one of those cities you can, and our offices are awesome.

What you’ll do:

• Propose new products and features and pitch them to the company and community


• Create detailed feature specs and mockups, and work with developers and designers to create rapid prototypes


• Define and monitor metrics to determine the effectiveness of features, and administer split tests to learn whether a change is an improvement


• Interact with our community of developers and employers to gather ideas and feedback


• Develop go-to-market strategies with marketing and the sales team


• Manage complex cross-functional projects


• Keep the developer at the center of your plans - while the product is for employers, we believe that making developers deliriously happy about their interactions with employers will ultimately be the best product for employers

What we want to see:

• Experience coming up with ideas for, building, and shipping web software


• A deep understanding of Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange network sites


• Strong UX skills and spec-writing skills


• An understanding of the technical implications of what you ask the team to do


• Excellent telecommuting skills.  Even if you work from one of our offices, many of our team members are remote


• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly through written word (whether that's meta or forum posts, specs, blogging, or anything else)

About the Company

Our goal is to make the Internet a better place to get expert answers to your questions and upgrade your career. We’ve done a lot of that with Stack Overflow, but we think there’s still more to do.

We believe in hiring smart people and getting out of their way. We have offices in New York City, Denver, and London with some of the best amenities of any startup, and we have people who work remotely all over the world. We keep meetings and ceremony to an absolute minimum, and will never poke you with a sharp stick.