Product Manager

Meteor Development Group, San Francisco

The open source company for JavaScript and GraphQL

Define and ship new products and features while working closely with our engineering team. We are an open source company — our products are built for developers, by developers, with the help of a worldwide community of contributors. Your focus will be on Apollo Engine and its relationship to our Apollo open source projects.

We are proud of our history of creating sophisticated yet approachable products and vibrant developer communities around them. We look for product managers that have an intuition for what makes a great developer experience, a understanding of IT trends, and a passion to understand and solve real customer problems.

If you're a software developer by training and love product design, this role is a chance to shine.

What you'll do

Generate an internal understanding of our customers and their needs and collaborate with Engineering and Design teams to specify new features, products and services.
Help define how we price, launch, and market our products and their features.
Work closely with our strategic design partners, including Fortune 500 enterprises and notable startups, on future product directions and features.
Communicate and maintain a roadmap for your product area that's aligned with the company's overall strategy. Make sure all stakeholders – our open source developers, customers, partners, and the MDG team – understand our plans at the right level of detail and certainty.
Collaborate on company strategy with the executive team and R&D leads.

About you

You have been an industry software developer at some point in your career. You understand developers and have an intuition for what makes a great developer experience. You love doing deep dives into your product space and figuring out what makes customers tick.
You're able to communicate your ideas clearly and you constantly test and refine them.
You are skilled at resolving complex technical conflicts in product scope discussions
You understand how to get agreement and buy in on the key product decisions you are responsible for
You employ clear, succinct and precise communication tactics to explain and convince engineers of product decisions using market evidence and data.

This position is available only at our San Francisco headquarters. MDG is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.

About Meteor Development Group

Meteor is the JavaScript App Platform setting the standard for modern cloud/client architectures for mobile and web. Meteor's JavaScript based framework is making app development radically simple for developers everywhere. The open source Meteor project is overseen by San Francisco-based Meteor Development Group, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, and individual investors. Meteor was created in 2012 by Geoff Schmidt, Nick Martin, and Matt DeBergalis.