Senior Product Manager

About the role

You will own the vision for end-to-end business objectives that cut across multiple engineering teams at Chromatic. You will synthesize customer feedback, product analytics, and insights from marketing and sales to define clear feature specifications. You will work directly with customers to understand their requests and drill down to the root causes of the problems they face. You will partner closely with design, engineering, and marketing teams to craft product enhancements that support our core metrics. You will manage analytics instrumentation across our products and use that data to drive product decisions. You will own these features end-to-end from discovery through delivery. You will collaborate with engineering teams across the platform to ensure successful execution. If you are energized by building developer tooling and using the product you manage, this role is a strong fit.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Own the vision for end-to-end business objectives that span multiple engineering teams.
• Synthesize ideas, business goals, customer feedback, product analytics, and insights from marketing and sales into feature specifications.
• Work closely with the engineering and marketing teams to ensure we ship world class software that matters to our existing and future customers.
• Manage analytics instrumentation across our products and use it to make data driven product decisions.
• Translate complex developer needs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria for the engineering teams.
• Drive discovery activities that uncover user problems and validate potential solutions before significant investment.
• Define and monitor key product metrics to assess the impact of releases and iterate based on observed outcomes.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to prioritize work that advances strategic objectives and improves the developer experience.
• Represent customer voices internally to ensure product decisions reflect real user needs and pain points.
• Conduct roadmap planning and stakeholder communication to align timelines, dependencies, and expectations.
• Collaborate with design and engineering to deliver high-quality releases that meet usability, performance, and reliability standards.
• Support marketing and sales teams with messaging, positioning, and competitive insights derived from your product work.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements that increase efficiency and clarity across product development.
• Contribute to the long-term product strategy by assessing market trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies.
• Work proactively in a distributed, asynchronous environment while maintaining clarity and alignment across teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years product management experience with SaaS companies.
• Clear written and verbal communicator who provides straightforward, self-contained updates with necessary context in our distributed, asynchronous environment.
• Technical background strong enough to understand how our tools are used by developers.
• Strong opinions, weakly held - someone who pushes back on ideas to drive better outcomes, handles critique without defensiveness, and demonstrates a growth mindset.
• Evidence-driven mindset - uses customer feedback and our analytics instrumentation to make informed product decisions.
• Accountability - experience leading the end-to-end process for a feature from conception to release.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Comfort working with ambiguous problems and defining solutions through collaboration.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new tools, technologies, and processes on the Chromatic platform.
• Commitment to inclusive practices that support diverse users and teams.
• Understanding of remote work dynamics and effective participation in asynchronous communication.
• Willingness to seek feedback and iterate on your own work based on data and stakeholder input.
• Capacity to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution details.

Nice to have

• Were previously a front-end software engineer.
• Have experience working in the developer tooling space.
• Have a keen interest in UI, design and the front-end ecosystem.
• Have worked effectively in a distributed, remote-first team environment.

Practical notes

This is a fully remote position on a cross-functional team for individuals based in the mainland US or Canada.

We understand that even the best candidates might not meet all the above qualifications on day one. That is okay. If you are excited about Chromatic's mission and want to grow your skills, we would love to hear from you.

Salary Range: 170,000 - 210,000 USD + equity. Learn more about our compensation philosophy here https://www.notion.so/Chromatic-s-Compensation-Philosophy-bc0b2c567f6e44ac8d2ada3003404a93?pvs=21. For a list of our other benefits & a peek into life at Chromatic, visit our careers page https://www.chromatic.com/company/careers.