SeniorPrincipal Product Manager Durable Objects

Available locations: Austin New York San Francisco

About The Role

Youll be responsible for leading Durable Objects a powerful compute & storage primitive used by customers and many of Cloudflares own services as part of Cloudflares Developer Platform.

Durable Objects unlock stateful Workers applications on Cloudflares global network. Many of Cloudflares products Agents SDK Containers Workflows D1 etc are built on top of Durable Objects.

This is a role with high agency and accountability: youll be the sole PM for the products youre responsible for and youll work closely with your peers across the team to ensure were shipping great developer experiences and not silos.

What Youll Do

• Drive the strategy roadmap & (most importantly) ship great products that help developers build reliable high performance full-stack applications on Cloudflare.
• Lead projects from ideation through launch and continuing through ongoing maintenance and support
• Develop and nurture relationships with engineering and coordinate closely to ensure successful delivery of product features
• Talk to developers (probably the most important)! Youll need to be crafty and develop a playbook to find the right users to talk to. This might include diving into our BI tools to find specific cohorts that are worth talking to engaging on our developer discord or heading straight to Twitter or Hacker News to engage and build relationships with the community.
• Partner with other departments such as Product Marketing Marketing Community & Developer Relations Sales and Customer Support to drive adoption with and gather feedback from customers and prospects
• Ruthlessly prioritize across a complex environment of diverse customers stakeholders and objectives
• Represent the company externally as needed including meetings with customers and prospects and analysis
• Delve into market research to drive new investment opportunities in the developer space

Examples Of Desirable Skills Knowledge And Experience

You have outstanding communication and collaboration skills and are able to work with a diverse group get alignment and drive the product forward. You are execution focused and emphasize getting things done while paying attention to important details.

• A desire to sweat the details and ship great end-to-end developer experiences. APIs UIs docs: all of these are part of the product.
• Proven track record of shipping developer-facing products from ideation to launch. You should know what it means to be a developer and what gets in the way of building production services.
• A love for talking to developers at organizations both large and small on a daily basis so that you can build and ship products that solve real problems
• Demonstrated experience with transactional databases or storage products (NoSQL or SQL building on or building them directly) and a desire to become a domain expert in the space as quickly as humanly possible.
• A focus on the developer: youll be working directly with customers and often be a part of the customers team in helping them get their initial implementation off the ground
• BS/MS in a technology field
• Professional product management experience (5-8 years) previous founder experience or demonstrated experience on an engineering team shipping user-facing products.
• Strong technical abilities. You should be intimately familiar with modern software development practices used to build and deploy applications. You are capable of wading into the details & understanding engineering decisions impact on the product but can also step back and take a 30k foot view.
• Experience using developer tools: you should have a favorite text editor be familiar with composing CLI tools and be the first user of the products youre shipping.
• Programming experience (JavaScript/TypeScript Rust Go etc.) and/or experience with SQL dialects.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $200k to $240k

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses support caregiving build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs including parental pregnancy health medical and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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