About the role
What You will Do:
Founding Product Leadership
- Serve as the founding product leader for NetDocuments' first Developer Experience (DevX) team, defining the product charter from day one.
- Partner with the Principal Software Engineer to define the team's charter, roadmap, and success metrics.
- Weigh in on team fit alongside the Principal Software Engineer and Engineering Manager as the team hires its first Staff and Senior Software Engineers.
Discovery & Stakeholder Management
- Run discovery directly with geographically-disparate engineering teams to understand existing architecture, current tooling, and developer pain points.
- Build trusted relationships and cadence with engineering stakeholders and leadership across time zones, without formal authority over them.
- Translate discovery findings into a clear, prioritized roadmap for a brand-new team with no existing backlog to inherit.
- Travel occasionally to the US (approximately 1–2 times per year) to deepen collaboration with US engineering leadership.
Prioritization & Roadmap
- Define and prioritize the DevX roadmap based on developer pain points and data, not just feature requests.
- Partner with the Principal Software Engineer to balance technical feasibility, architectural direction, and product priorities.
- Own tradeoff decisions on scope and sequencing as the team's charter and roadmap evolve.
Driving Change & Measuring Impact
- Define and track developer productivity signals (e.g., deploy frequency, cycle time, DORA metrics) to measure DevX's impact.
- Baseline developer satisfaction and productivity from zero, and use those metrics to prioritize and report on progress.
- Drive adoption of DevX tools and standards across engineering teams that don't report to them, building buy-in rather than mandating change.
Team Building
- Help set the culture and working norms for a brand-new team.
- Partner closely with the Principal Software Engineer as a day-to-day co-lead of the DevX team.
What You'll Need to Be Successful
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of a product area or roadmap.
- Enterprise SaaS product management experience; developer tools or platform product experience is a plus.
- Technical fluency sufficient to engage credibly with engineers on architecture and tooling tradeoffs — no coding background required.
- Experience building a roadmap and charter under ambiguity, without an existing backlog to inherit.
- Experience driving adoption of a product or initiative across teams that don't report to you.
- Experience defining and using productivity or adoption metrics (e.g., DORA metrics) to prioritize work and measure impact.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across geographies and time zones.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience building buy-in across technical stakeholders.
What Will Make You Stand Out
- Prior experience founding or scaling a Developer Experience or Platform Engineering product function from scratch.
- Experience partnering closely with a Principal or Staff engineer as a product/technical co-leadership pair.
- Experience running discovery and building trust with distributed, cross-country engineering teams (e.g., US and India).
- Experience in legal technology or other regulated enterprise software environments.
- Experience hiring and building a product or engineering team from the ground up.