Product Manager

Sauce Labs provides the world’s largest cloud-based platform for the automated testing of web and mobile applications. Its award-winning service eliminates the time and expense of maintaining an in-house testing infrastructure, freeing development teams of any size to innovate and release better software, faster.

Product Managers at Sauce Labs are the backbone of product strategy. Passionate about our mission to speed application development through automated testing and continuous delivery, Product Managers work across the organization and directly with customers to define the strategies that will make Sauce Labs an invaluable solution for all organizations.

• Lead agile cross-functional teams of software developers and user interaction designers to bring new features and services to market. As the product owner you are responsible for the success and quality of the features and services your team delivers
• Define product strategy and build business cases for new services
• Author roadmaps, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria to clearly define and communicate new services and features
• Draft metrics to ship with your features to measure usage and other success indicators, monitor those metrics, and determine if the work is successful or requires changes
• Collaborate with Product Marketing to prepare release and launch materials, author announcement blog posts, and host webinars when appropriate
• Act as the voice of the customer for your area of responsibility. Build customer intimacy via meetings, surveys, analytics, beta testing and usability research
• Build awareness of market, technology and competitive trends. Prepare detailed competitive analysis and benchmarking

• Minimum 2 years of software product management experience
• Able to decompose user challenges and translate into product solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively address technical and non-technical audiences both internally and externally
• Strong understanding of agile development philosophies and best practices
• Able to parse and extract meaning from large, sometimes disparate data sets
• Persuasive presentation skills; you are comfortable in front of groups, and can successfully influence audiences
• Nimble and adaptive; you can stay on your feet when the ideal scenario slips away, make the right tradeoffs at the right time, and deliver on the primary goals
• Able to balance multiple, sometimes conflicting priorities
• Entrepreneurial and self driven, you thrive on solving problems, are proactive, and excel at knocking down any barriers to success
• Experience with automated testing and continuous integration/delivery is highly desired
• Analytics or Big Data experience is a plus