Director Product Management
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Were seeking a Director of Product Management who brings hands-on development experienceto lead our Developer Experience strategy. This role requires someone who has coded in the trenches and can leverage that authentic perspective create exceptional experiences across our entire product portfolio. Youll be the connective tissue ensuring that whether someone is using our IDE plugins CLI APIs web interfaces or any other touchpoint they have a unified intuitive and delightful experience.
This isnt just about developer tools - its about championing the entire user journey across Veracodes products. Youll partner closely with our Product Design team to ensure user-centric thinking drives every decision while bringing your unique technical perspective to make our products truly resonate with developers and their teams.
This is a hands-on leadership role where youll be in the trenches. If youre looking for a role where you delegate all the real work this isnt it. We need someone who leads by doing.
What you will be responsible for:
- Own the holistic Developer and User Experience strategy across ALL Veracode products serving as the primary advocate for consistency and excellence in every user interaction
- Act as the glue between product teams ensuring unified experiences whether users are developers working in their IDE or security professionals reviewing reports
- Personally conduct user interviews usability sessions and customer feedback calls
- Get into our products dailytest features file bugs and experience our tools as both a developer and product leader
- Roll up your sleeves to unblock teams whether thats clarifying requirements making quick decisions or jumping into technical discussions
- Explore innovative approaches to product management including leveraging AI where it adds value
- Prototype experience improvements and work directly with designers and engineers to iterate
- Partner closely with Product Design to champion user-centric approaches (youre not the designer but you deeply value and advocate for great product design)
- Leverage your development background to anticipate developer needs pain points and workflows translating them into product strategy
- Use cutting edge tools to analyze user feedback at scale identify patterns and generate actionable insights faster than traditional methods
- Work closely with GTM team to articulate the value of superior developer and user experience in our go-to-market strategy
- Build and own the product roadmap for experience improvements across our portfolio
- Establish and monitor KPIs for user experience developer adoption and satisfaction metrics to predict trends and identify early warning signals
- Drive adoption of modern developer workflows
- Collaborate with engineering architecture and UX Design to ensure technical feasibility while maintaining experience quality
- Mentor and coach Technical Product Managers on user-centric product development
Required Skills:
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on software development experience - you must have been a practicing developer to authentically understand and advocate for developer needs
- Deep hands-on experience with developer tools: CLIs IDE extensions CI/CD systems AI-First IDEs and package managers (npm pip Maven)
- Understanding of developer workflows and toolchains
- Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience with minimum 8 years total experience in high tech software or SaaS
- Proven track record of successfully transitioning from engineering to product management
- Comfortable being hands-on with our productsyou should be excited to use our CLI test our IDE plugins and navigate our APIs yourself
- Track record of hands-on product leadership not just strategic oversight
- Energy and enthusiasm for doing the work not just directing it
- Curiosity about emerging technologies including AI/ML and how they can enhance developer experience
- Strong knowledge of application security and how developers interact with security tools
- Deep appreciation for Product Design with demonstrated ability to partner effectively with designers (not be one)
- Experience driving cross-product consistency and unified experiences across multiple user touchpoints
- Ability to think beyond individual features to the holistic user journey
- Experience with using data user research and analytics to drive experience improvements
- Excellent customer-facing skills with ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience creating and launching products with exceptional user experiences
- Strong strategic thinking with ability to balance user needs with business outcomes
- Exceptional communication skills to align diverse stakeholders around experience vision
- Experience in Agile development environments and modern software delivery (CI/CD DevOps DevSecOps)
- Extensive experience with Cloud Native Technologies and developer tooling ecosystems
What we offer you:
- Outstanding Medical Dental and Vision Coverage to meet all your healthcare needs.
- Wellness benefits to help you focus on whats most important.
- Take What You Need time off policy.
- Extensive development and training offerings to help you grow your career at Veracode.
- Generous 401k match to help save for your future.
- Amazing community of professionals who take pride in what we do every day.
Compensation Transparency
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Job Grade: Director
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