ABOUT RETOOL:
At Retool, we’re changing the way software is built. We’ve developed the fastest way to build internal tools, saving companies time, resources, and engineering bandwidth. Whether it’s refunding orders, underwriting loans, managing marketplaces, rolling out new features, analyzing transactions, or providing customer support, Retool makes it dramatically faster and easier to build internal tools that teams need. We believe that the future of software development lies in being a force multiplier for developers and technical builders, helping them move considerably faster building a lot more software. We’re looking for highly collaborative people as we build a world-class team to support this mission and we’d love for you to join us!
ABOUT THE TEAM:
Tens of thousands of customers rely on us to run their businesses. The Retool Product team helps build the products that make our customers successful with Retool and set us up to achieve our long-term mission.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
As a PM you’ll help to set product vision and roadmap, collaborate with design and engineering teams to build the right product, and work with go-to-market teams to get our products into the hands of our customers. You’ll work with your engineering and design counterparts to effectively communicate the direction and status of your product area to the rest of the organization. At Retool, product managers are highly flexible, technically-minded, and will adjust to whatever is needed to deliver great products to our customers.
As a PM on the core products team focusing on code, you’ll drive a best-in-class developer experience inside of Retool. As the product leader for code authoring, you’ll build a vision for developer productivity and the future of coding inside of Retool. The ethos of Retool is fast, assisted development. Code authoring in Retool should feel like you’re working with a tool that knows or can anticipate your intent—a powerful companion to help you get to the outcome you need, quickly. For example, today we're working on:
Delivering a powerful coding experience supplemented by AI where Retool helps users write any code in the platform faster by using our knowledge of data shape and user context
Designing a delightful code editing experience in the browser that feels consistent across Retool products
Best in class experiences across Retool's myriad supported resources. Whether your company is all-in on GraphQL or your data is spread across REST and SQL, interacting with your data in Retool should be a joyful experience
Radically increasing the amount of developers that love and proactively reach for Retool by seamlessly connecting together what they know - their data - with what they don't know - the entire Retool product suite
WHO YOU'll WORK WITH:
You’ll be working with almost all Retools but will be most often partnering with engineers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams to deliver products to our customers.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:
Serve as a founding member of the product function at Retool
Help set the direction of Retool’s product
Work with engineering and product to set the roadmap for your product area
Understand our customers by talking with customers, a lot, interacting with go-to-market teams, and digging into product data
Help the rest of the organization understand our customers as well
Develop effective product briefs that help us build the right products
Collaborate with go-to-market to launch new features and products to our customers
Identify new opportunities and product areas for Retool to pursue
Measure, analyze and report to the organization on the success of our products
Help build the foundations for a high-performing Product team at Retool
THE SKILLSET YOU'll BRING:
4+ years of product management experience at a fast-growing technology company
Proven track record of having successfully shipped large scope products with impact
Ability to work collaboratively with engineering, design and go-to-market teams
Strong customer-first mindset, with a talent for translating customer problems into the right product solutions
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong ownership mindset to do whatever is needed to deliver the best product to our customers
Deep curiosity and knowledge of your customers and products
Ability to take on open-ended problems in unstructured environments
Significant experience with SQL, Javascript, and APIs. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to speak the language of caching layers, databases, and pull requests
Prefer technical and customer-facing backgrounds
Prefer experience in building products for developers and in priority domains such as development and source control frameworks, access controls, and launching new products
Retool offers generous benefits to all employees. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!
At this time, Retool is only set up to employ in the US and UK.
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