Product Manager, Retool Database

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. You’ll be joining as one of the founding members of the Product team   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. Our new “Retool Database” product gives customers a full-fledged Postgres database to use out-of-the-box, with a spreadsheet-like UI on top to manage tables and fields, add and edit records, and more. This makes it easy to get up-and-running quickly on Retool—you can quickly scaffold out a schema to prototype your first Retool app on top of—and also presents powerful strategic opportunities as customers bring more and more data into Retool. Retool Database is in its early stages. You’ll own the Database product end-to-end, helping the team make decisions around featureset, working across other Retool surfaces to tightly integrate DB with the rest of the platform, and crucially, setting the long-term strategy for how DB can make the biggest impact on Retool as a whole.    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: 3+ 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 Familiarity with SQL, Javascript, and APIs. You don’t need to be an engineer or a database expert, but you should be able to speak fluently about common database features, and understand the role of a database within an application Prefer technical and customer-facing backgrounds 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.