Senior Product Manager (Release Platform)
Product, Berlin, DE
About the Team
Welcome to our Release Experience team, we are responsible for bringing Miro’s features in the hands of our customers. We take care that merged code gets to customers fast and reliably. Our team aspires to create a smooth release experience for all Miro developers. Releasing must be fast, frequent, predictable, and with a minimized blast radius on customers. When things go wrong, we make sure we can mitigate issues fast with roll-backs, hotfixes, etc. We deal with our CI/CD. Our team is part of the Developer Experience department at Miro. Our sister teams take care of the journey from coding on your local machine up until merging to master.
About the Role
We already have the engineers (and engineering manager), but now we need the product manager to help us out. As PM, you will ensure that we are working on the most impactful opportunities. By evaluating the metrics, talking to our colleague developers, stakeholders and expert engineers, etc. By having a broad view of all potential initiatives, you will facilitate the conversation around what is most impactful moving forward. You ensure we estimate impact up front, and reflect on created value afterwards.
What you’ll do
- You have your hands at the levers that can speed up the entire Miro engineering organisation (>600 engineers). Each incremental improvement has a huge positive compounding effect on Miro reaching its product strategy goals.
- You will be making very difficult trade-offs when deciding where to invest. Should we improve the UI of our release dashboard, or should we increase the deployment frequency? Should we add more quality gates up front, or invest in faster hotfix and rollback systems? Should we automate environment configuration, or should we make systems that catch environment drift? Should we reduce the amount of tests to decrease the time from merge to deploy, or should we add tests to reduce our failure rate?
- You will base decisions on a mix of input from 1) metrics analysis (deployment frequency, reliability metrics, test metrics, incident metrics, etc) 2) developer interviews (both feature teams and infrastructure teams) 3) stakeholder priorities 4) consulting with legal and security teams, and of course there will be more.
What you’ll need
- Experience creating products for developers. Either internal tools or products that have developers as users.
- Experience with deployments, releases, CI/CD.
- A motivation to get to the truth of things. What exactly will be really having the most impact on the organisation as a whole?
- The personality that only considers the job done, when the value is captured by the organisation - not when the tool is built.
- The ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Bonus: Experience developing and releasing software first-handed.
- Bonus: Familiarity with leveraging AI tools for UX and data analysis
What's in it for you
- Competitive equity package
- Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
- Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
- Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
- Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
About Miro
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 100M users and 250,000 companies collaborate in the Innovation Workspace. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 13 hubs around the world.
We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!
Check out more about life at Miro:
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lifeatmiro
- Blog: https://miro.com/careers/life-at-miro/all/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirohq/
At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.
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01. Recruiter Screen
A 30-min interview to discuss your relevant skills, perspective on resilience, experience, and what motivates you to join Miro.
02. Hiring Manager
The hiring manager will meet to discuss your experience and fit for the role by assessing whether you align with the Miro Mindset (Curiosity, Drive, Resilience, Empathy, Cognitive Agility & Accountability). This interview usually takes 90-120 minutes.
03. Skill Assesment
An interactive presentation to see your skills in action, based around a particular case study or business problem.
04. Meet the Team
Here you will meet cross-functional stakeholders, and we will ask evidence-based questions to evaluate how well you align with the role and Miro's values and culture.
05. Leadership Round
Meet a member of the leadership team to discuss Miro’s company values and share your vision for success at Miro.