Senior Product Manager

About the job:
Full-time
In the digital age, content rules.

More people are now involved in creating and distributing content than ever before. We have all become the media; the media has been marginalized, and brands are now broadcasters.

Everyone has a story to tell or something to sell. A need to create, connect, post, publish, showcase, and share.

So, say hello to Strapi! We exist to fuel the world’s creativity and productivity by unleashing the power of content.

Beyond a headless CMS, we are building an open composable content platform: infinite customization capabilities, the largest open-source community, and a broad open ecosystem.

 

🙏🏾 Why your role is important at Strapi

As a (Technical) Product Manager, you’re the one steering our product strategy ship. You start from figuring out the problem, finding a solution, making it happen, to getting users on board. You’re right in the middle of the business, tech & design, driving us towards our goals and what our company is all about. It’s not just about handling features; it’s about leading the team to get each feature done, on time, and making sure everything runs smoothly.

For this position, we are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the way in shaping the next version of our Cloud foundations. You’ll be part of the Cloud Platform squad, focusing mainly on developers. You will join a crew working on an early-stage product fulfilling a simple mission: provide the easiest experience to enjoy Strapi in production. Your job will be to spot opportunities and help other teams build on our Cloud, becoming a key player in growing our business.

Currently, our users complain about the speed to deploy (~8 minutes), the overall experience provided and the price. We started working on these problems and despite these issues, the launch of Strapi Cloud last year was a huge success.

Embracing our open-source foundation comes with unique challenges, but it’s a fantastic opportunity. You’ll have a wealth of feedback at your fingertips, providing valuable insights. Your influence will be unmistakable, and you’ll have the chance to engage daily with users shaping incredible applications with our product.

 

✌️ The product culture

A squad is composed of the following roles:

x1 Product Manager

x1 Product Designer

x1 Engineering Manager

x5 Software Engineering

x1 Technical Writer

x1 QA

We developed a Product Management Framework that split our development process into 10 different steps where the ownership and expectations are clearly identified. Each squad is free to use Kanban, SCRUM or any other AGILE frameworks.

The product managers meet once a week to share our learnings, questions and doubts about last week. Our cadence isn’t set in stone, we adjust the frequency of our gatherings in favor of performance. Moreover, we meet every two weeks to discuss long-term topics, we called this meeting Product Vision Sync. On a monthly basis, we meet all the other teams to improve our collaboration and listen to their concerns (Support, CS, Sales, Marketing). Last but not least, we recently switched to a new framework to define our quarterly goals, we no longer use the OKRs, we are experimenting with the NCTs.

 

📋 What will my job look like on a daily basis?

You’ll be responsible to develop the cloud hosting platform for the developer persona.

Work with the CPO to shape the product strategy (positioning, benchmark, pricing, scope, MVP, MLP, and next iterations).

Identify the users’ needs by running user interviews, surveys, and partners/customer calls.

Collaborate with Marketing, Support, Documentation, Finance, and Sales teams to prepare the releases, the documentation, the support offering, understand the budget aspects and the sales lifecycles.

 

💙 About you:

You are empathetic for the users, have no ego, being open-minded and humble.

You are able to receive constructive feedback and be challenged.

You have an entrepreneur mindset, you can fly in blurriness and like to be proactive.

You understand the Cloud hosting and Content Management System fields.

Previous knowledge on database structure, API (devOps is a bonus).

Be data-driven, and know how to use analytics/BI tools (Google Analytics, Amplitude)

Knowing the AGILE methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban) and others (ShapeUp)

You speak English fluently.

Bonus — You develop side projects using JavaScript, and you already deployed them on different hosting providers.

 

👾 Strapi benefits:

🌍 Work from anywhere: We’re a remote-first company, so we can work wherever our home is. And WiFi.

🚑 Expanded health benefits: Including premium medical, dental, and vision coverage.

💰 Equity for everyone: We win together. On top of a competitive salary, every Strapier has equity that grows with you in the company.

🐣 Parents on a mission: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for every new Strapi parent.

💻 You’ll always be up to date: We’ll cover all hardware and software needed, so you’re always with the latest versions.

🎓 Grow as you are: From day one, we provide budget and tools to learn and grow both professionally and personally.

🎉 Offsite: We all gather physically or virtually twice a year.

🌱 Mental health support: We offer Moka.care one-on-one sessions with certified specialists.

👭 Referral program: $1500 is your recommendation gets hired

🙏🏾 Emergency days: 5 paid days per year, for each Strapier in trouble (miscarriage, grief, domestic violence, sick kids or dependants) who needs a day or a few days off to manage it.

 

💥 Our Talent Acquisition process:

This process tends to take 2-3 weeks max, but happy to adapt to your specific needs.

First video call with the Talent Acquisition Team or the hiring Manager

Technical assessment & Assessment debriefing

Team meetings (with a few Strapiers)

References check