Description
Summary:
This role is for a Principal Product Manager to lead strategic initiatives, focusing on product discovery, strategy, and execution within a fast-growing observability technology company.
Highlights:
1. Lead strategic product initiatives with high impact
2. Opportunity for deep domain expertise in observability
3. Leadership and mentorship opportunities for product managers
**Principal Product Manager (Observability) – Remote**
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**About the Role**
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We are a fast\-growing, venture\-backed technology company on a mission to make observability radically easier for developers. We are building a modern platform focused on open standards and seamless interoperability across today's observability ecosystem.
We are looking for a **Principal Product Manager** to lead one of our most strategic product initiatives. In this role, you will own product discovery, define strategy, and drive execution to ensure we are solving meaningful customer problems in a valuable and viable way.
This is a high\-impact, senior\-level opportunity ideal for someone with deep domain expertise in observability and strong product leadership experience.
**Responsibilities**
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* Lead product discovery through regular customer interactions and qualitative user interviews.
* Identify and validate high\-impact problems worth solving.
* Contribute to solution design by applying knowledge of business constraints, customer needs, technical considerations, and domain expertise.
* Own product strategy and roadmap for your initiative, aligning with leadership and cross\-functional teams.
* Advocate for customer needs by developing a deep understanding of observability challenges and user workflows.
* Define, track, and manage product KPIs, ensuring measurable outcomes.
* Evaluate whether released solutions effectively solve the intended problems.
* Provide leadership and mentorship to other product managers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
**Requirements**
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* Deep domain knowledge in observability, including strong familiarity with open\-source tools such as OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
* Experience operating production software systems (hands\-on operational experience is strongly preferred).
* Strong data analysis skills, including experience setting up analytics processes and extracting insights from complex datasets.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Proven ability to define product vision and clearly articulate strategy to cross\-functional teams and leadership.
* Experience setting and managing product KPIs.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
* Availability to work within CET time zone hours.
**Nice to Have**
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* Experience building 0\-to\-1 products or leading significant new product initiatives within an existing platform.
* Background in AI/ML product management.
* Experience working in high\-growth startup environments.
**What We Offer**
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* Competitive compensation
* Equity participation
* Remote\-first and flexible work environment
* Collaborative and supportive team culture