Teamlead Product Management (m/f/d)

Checkmk is a leading provider of hybrid IT monitoring software for cloud-native and traditional infrastructures and applications. The Teamlead Product Management role leads and develops a team of product managers while sponsoring initiatives across monitoring and observability. The position involves hiring, coaching product management practices, guiding product strategy, collaborating with engineering and other departments, and incorporating user and market evidence into planning.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop three product managers, with one open position to fill now and more likely next year
• Run your own hiring, from role definition to the final call
• Coach product craft: discovery, prioritization, working with engineering, saying no and making it stick
• Set clear goals, give feedback people can use, and handle performance conversations honestly
• Represent your team and its priorities towards engineering, sales, support, and consulting
• Sponsor the initiatives in your area, the larger product bets we plan, fund and sequence each year
• Carry them from the first problem statement through to adoption after release, not only to the release date
• Stay close to the work: user interviews, discovery, competitive analysis, and using the product yourself
• Work with engineering leadership on scope, sequencing, and what gets cut when a release date is fixed
• Bring evidence from users, the market, and your own data into annual planning

Requirements:

• Experience leading product people. Formal line management is ideal, a small team or a strong mentoring track record can work too
• A solid technical grounding in IT infrastructure, networks, cloud, and containers. You can hold your own with engineers and with SREs
• A track record as a product manager or product owner in an agile environment, on products built for technical users
• You work from evidence. You talk to users yourself, and you can explain why you cut something
• Excellent English
• Hands-on experience with monitoring or observability tooling such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or the Elastic stack
• A background as sysadmin, SRE, or system engineer before you moved into product
• A talent for getting into an unfamiliar technology fast, from documentation, a lab setup or an hour with an engineer, and turning it into product decisions
• German is a plus