As the Head of Product Management at Ably, you’ll be responsible for the growth and development of a talented team of product managers, and will also roll up your sleeves to contribute personally to finding and delivering innovative solutions to our customer’s problems. You will report to the Chief Product Officer, and will have significant direct influence in defining how we execute as a high-performing product team.
In this role
As the Head of Product Management at Ably, you’ll be responsible for the growth and development of a talented team of product managers, and will also roll up your sleeves to contribute personally to finding and delivering innovative solutions to our customer’s problems. You will report to the Chief Product Officer, and will have significant direct influence in defining how we execute as a high-performing product team.
Day to day, you will:
- Be the architect of the product management team, designing the ideal team composition and defining where we need to grow; as individuals and as a group.
- Help hire new product managers with the right skills and culture fit, and help onboard them so they can contribute meaningfully as quickly as possible.
- Coach the team to ensure that each person is working to their full potential and that working together makes everyone even more successful.
- Identify and help unblock impediments to team members’ success.
- Drive adoption and expansion of product management best practices within the team, including both processes and tools
- Identify the right metrics that indicate a healthy product organisation, take ownership of efforts to implement and scale the systems to measure them, and report the results to the company as a whole.
- Help drive product strategy, particularly helping to keep our Pods aligned in efforts that support the overall company goals.
- Be an advocate for the Product Management team across all departments at Ably
- Be an expert in our market by listening to our customers and prospects, keeping an eye on our competitors, connecting to the analyst community, and staying abreast of general trends in developer tools, technologies, and practices.
- Support Go to Market activities as a product expert through activities such as customer briefings, sales enablement training, and marketing content creation
Requirements
It would be great if you have:
- 5+ years of product management experience
- 2+ years of direct people management experience
- Experience building a commercial IaaS / SaaS / Cloud API product
- A background delivering solutions used by developers or other customers in the software development ecosystem (e.g. DevOps, APM, Cloud Infrastructure, etc.)
- Knowledge of modern software development lifecycle process and methodologies
It would be nice if you have:
- Working with cross-functional teams (particularly with Agile Pod structure)
- Experience at early to mid-stage venture-backed startups
- Personal experience with software development, and are able to write code (in any modern language) to build prototypes that use our APIs.
What’s it like to work at Ably?
Ably is entering a new phase of growth led by an experienced senior team. You’ll be part of a successful, highly motivated, and extremely collaborative team.
To provide the infrastructure required for the next generation of the internet, to tell the world about it, and to support everyone inside Ably to do so we hire people who are ready and capable of taking on challenging problems in a high-growth environment.
We want to work in a company of inclusive people who treat each other well. To really thrive at Ably, you’ll need to believe in and be prepared to do your work in line with our values, which are:
- Open for all. Open is a mindset. When open, we’re better collaborators, communicators and creators. Whether open source, standards, or protocols, open hearts, minds, and eyes. It’s better when it’s open.
- Bias for action. We avoid analysis paralysis at all costs. We lean into doing in order to move us forward. When we have enough of what we need to act, we act.
- Even the best do better. We want to be the best – but that doesn’t mean we rest when we are. Improvement and growth – true betterment – is an ongoing journey. One fuelled by curiosity and taking risks.
- Technology needs humanity. Our technology means little without people – whether that’s how we treat our colleagues, or how we design developer experiences. Being human matters.
- Dependable by default. Dependability is integral to our mission and technology, but being dependable starts with our people. When we care enough to take real ownership of our products and problems – all else will follow.
- Bold creativity wins. When viewed through a different lens, what stands in the way can become the way. The bigger the challenge the easier the choice: bold creativity will always move us forward, create better outcomes, and set us apart.
What’s in it for you?
- A great company culture
- Share options
- The chance to learn and grow with a fast-moving company, supported by a learning budget that gives you access to professional training, events, conferences, workshops etc.
- Remote first: Unless you want to pop into our communal office space in Shoreditch, London, you’ll work from home most of the time, apart from when we have planning sessions and Summits. Travel to the office is at the employee’s expense, apart from when we have Ably Summits
- Your choice of high quality tech kit to work on
- Home workstation set up budget of £500, plus an annual top-up of £150
- Regular company away days and social events
- Friday need-to-know drinks and snacks
- Private health insurance, including Doctor@Hand
- Access to private and confidential coaching with Sanctus
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme with AXA
- A monthly wellbeing budget with Juno
- 25 days of paid annual leave (33 days including bank holidays)
- 10 days of paid sick leave (including mental health days) per year
- Dog friendly office for when you’re in the office!