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, you’ll drive a best-in-class developer experience inside of Retool. You’ll be responsible for collaborating across different core products teams to build a vision for developer productivity inside of Retool.

The ethos of Retool is fast, assisted development. Building 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 new IDE to make it easier for builders to build complex apps with ease along with making the builder experience across Retool’s multiple products consistent
• 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