Senior Director, Product Management (Seattle Preferred)

Docker is a globally distributed, remote-first company building developer tools including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. The Senior Director of Product Management will manage the entire product lifecycle, lead a cross-functional product team, define strategy and priorities, and bring products to market that simplify application development for millions of developers.

Responsibilities:

• Hire, develop, and retain the best product team of your entire career
• Deliver results for our customer and our business working across teams to deliver ongoing successful product market fit
• Facilitate alignment on a compelling product vision and strategy with customers and market opportunities top of mind
• Set clear multi-team priorities and shape focus for the team to the benefit of our customer and our financial results
• Drive team metrics that help determine if we are making real progress well ahead of “grow ARR”
• Foster rapid learning cycles on the team (and foster an aversion for “build it and they will come”)
• Help products have a healthy ecosystem in which to thrive (developers, partners, customers, and online communities)
• Bonus: serve as product spokesperson with customers, partners, press, analysts, and events
• Observe - get to know our: customers, product, team, and ways of working (we use OKRs)
• Tell us where we got the expectations wrong below as you work to build a world class team and business
• Continue learning (we love a growth mindset here and believe in progress over perfection)
• Orient to the team’s talents, current product direction, and the resulting metrics
• Compile early observations about where we should investigate making adjustments to maximize return on invested engineering effort
• Set goals (OKRs) with the team
• Hiring a world class talent and making any needed adjustments to our hiring process in a collaborative way
• Adjusting goals and roadmaps to help provide a better return on invested engineering effort
• Have made system wide impact on Docker’s product while changing the lives of millions of developers

Requirements:

• You have a favorite CLI, thoughts on how Docker could approve, and an opinion about pros and cons for various SDLC approaches
• Evidence of many years of hands on product management across multiple product stages hopefully including some wisdom from prior efforts adding #2 to n products or SKUs
• Foster a mindset of 10x rather than 10% thinking
• Enjoy engagement with customers and users and iterating on ways to validate we are building what they need (not just what they say) before engineering work is complete
• Operate from a presence over pretense mindset - humbly confident is a Docker virtue and you know from your experiences that influence matters more than authority (egos need not apply - you know who you are)
• Comfortable in a remote 1st company across ~8 timezones - really this means you are great at writing or other methods of reinforcing information sharing without literally being “at the front of the room”
• Possess a growth mindset and demonstrate where you have learned new customers, markets and business models quickly - bonus only: you already have experience in dev tools, SaaS, cloud service and/or open source freemium models
• Love for and success in a fast-growth scale up environment characterized by controlled chaos (sometimes described as: lack of resources, imperfect information, quickly-changing user markets and competitive landscape, and limited structure and guidance)
• Prior experience as a coding engineer or evidence of successfully serving this user
• bonus only: you already have experience in dev tools, SaaS, cloud service and/or open source freemium models
• Bonus only: experience engaging with and enabling large developer communities