Product Manager (Technical)

About us

We’re an early stage, well-funded startup team with a proven track record of shipping open source software with global adoption. We put a premium on respectful, clear, and complete communication, and we expect each other to be creative, curious, effective, and empathetic.

We believe deeply that the right tools and abstractions enable not just technological transformation, but also organizational transformation. We strive to put the user and their hard work at the center of our decision making. In practice, that means we are looking for engineers who want to write clean APIs and helpful error messages, and who always try to understand user needs when designing a new system.

All of our open source work is done publicly. You can gain context about how we collaborate as a team and the problems we work on by exploring GitHub and looking at our code reviews.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced product manager with a background in software development to join our ‘Build’ team, focused on developing features that enhance the speed and efficiency of writing data pipelines.

As the product owner, you’ll own the optimization of the build, test and deploy aspects of the data engineering development lifecycle for both the open-source and cloud products, helping teams move from pipeline design through execution and automation. Leveraging our track record of delivering significant productivity improvements within data engineering, you’ll drive a critically important center of innovation within Dagster, helping us enable all teams to build reliable, scaleable and productive data platforms.

This is a full-time position offering competitive salary, equity, and benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis. We’re open to hiring fully remote candidates who are currently authorized to work within the United States. We offer flexible remote work options so you can choose the environment that makes you most productive—whether that’s your home or a coworking space. Dagster Labs fosters a collaborative, remote-first culture, ensuring you have all the tools and support needed to thrive, no matter where you are.

Responsibilities

• Connect with teams large and small. Listen, learn, and loop their feedback right back into our product work
• Create and deliver a roadmap for the ‘Build’ team that is comprised of high impact features which vastly improve the efficiency of building, testing and deploying data pipelines.
• Develop your own unique point of view about where data engineering and data platforms are evolving
• Lead by collaborating with engineering, design, sales, and the executive team to drive customer growth and engagement with Dagster

Must-have Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management experience
• 2+ years of prior experience as a data engineer, analytics engineer, data scientist, or software engineer with prior experience writing data pipelines
• Effective intuition and product sense
• Experience leading product development by coordinating efforts of cross functional teams
• Ability to identify customer needs and translate to product requirements
• Confident written communicator who is comfortable taking a point of view

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Experience at high-growth SaaS startups
• You like writing blogs and product managing in public

You belong here

We are committed to building an inclusive team and an open-source community where no one feels out of place. We know that teams with diverse backgrounds state their assumptions more explicitly, think more rigorously, and build better software. Plus it's more fun and interesting to work with a wide variety of perspectives.

You should apply to work at Dagster Labs if you want to work in, and help to build and strengthen, a high-performing software development environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome.

The estimated annual cash salary for this role is $130,000 - $200,000.

Other Resources

• The launch of Dagster blog post
• Launching Dagster Cloud to GA blog post
• The Data Engineering Impedance Mismatch blogpost/presentation
• What Dagster Believes About Data Platforms
• Software-Defined Assets blog post, Data Council talk, and animated explainer
• The April 2024 Dagster+ launch event

No recruiters please.