Technical Product Manager, Storefront Platform

| San Francisco, CA | Hybrid
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BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast- growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth.

Who is BigCommerce

BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC) is a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce platform that empowers merchants of all sizes to build, innovate, and grow their businesses online. As a leading open SaaS solution, BigCommerce provides merchants sophisticated enterprise-grade functionality, customization, and performance with simplicity and ease-of-use. Tens of thousands of B2B and B2C companies across 120 countries and numerous industries use BigCommerce to create beautiful, engaging online stores, including Ben & Jerry’s, Skullcandy, Sony, and Woolrich. Headquartered in Austin, BigCommerce has offices in San Francisco, Sydney, and London.

Our mission is to power unrivaled ecommerce success at every stage of our customers’ growth. We equip growing businesses with the world’s most effective platform for creating beautiful stores, attracting customers wherever they shop, and generating sales. Online businesses using Bigcommerce can outsell and outperform those on other platforms.

About the role

We are looking for a Product Manager to focus on the Shopper and Developer experience of the BigCommerce Storefront platform (“Stencil”). As a part of this role, you will work closely with a few engineering teams, our API strategy group, as well as the rest of the Product & Engineering organization. In this role, you will need to be working with cross-functional stakeholders such as Marketing, PR, Strategic Business Development Team and other teams to make sure that there’s a cohesive strategy across the board. Our Storefront Platform is where many features of the BigCommerce platform are expressed to e-commerce Shoppers on behalf of our customers, so you will develop familiarity and relationships with many areas of the product and their associated teams.

What you’ll do:

  • Own the product strategy & execution of new features and underlying improvements to make the Stencil storefront platform & associated APIs beloved by all of its customers, across theme developers, merchants, and e-commerce shoppers
  • Ensure the BigCommerce storefront platform remains world-class in terms of performance, getting ahead of new trends affecting web performance & SEO
  • Ensure the ecosystem of BigCommerce Partners and 3rd party developers are enabled to build beautiful branded storefronts on top of our platform with best-in-class developer tools, which lend themselves to performance and SEO best practices
  • Gather inputs from cross-functional stakeholders (Marketing, Business Development, Sales, Finance etc). 
  • Define and communicate business outcomes and performance metrics to key stakeholders throughout the organization.
  • Enthusiastically lead your teams, consisting of developers, designers, and quality engineers, towards your vision with effective delivery.
  • Work collaboratively with your teams to break complex projects into small projects, with each iteration adding more customer value.
  • Prepare comprehensive Epics & Stories for your development teams.
  • Explain to the development team(s) all details of stories before/over development (organization of explanation process — planning, grooming meetings etc.)
  • Work with the Design team to design & prototype new features. 
  • Validate new functionality with customers before development. 
  • Demo new functionality to the stakeholders, the organization and customers.  
  • Analyze the entire product and propose ways to improve it.
  • Analyze data to measure the impact of product improvements, and then iterate to constantly optimize performance.

Who you are:

  • Depending on the size and type of teams/companies you’ve worked at in the past, that could translate to anywhere from 2 to 4+ years’ experience in a hands-on product management role.
  • You’ve worked in an environment where website page-load performance and end-user experience was a key metric
  • Proficient in web performance auditing, at a level where you can explain best practices of web performance to others
  • Familiarity with REST and GraphQL APIs in a frontend web development context
  • Familiarity with WebPageTest, Google Lighthouse, and/or other performance auditing tools and frameworks.
  • You have worked in SCRUM Agile methodologies and understand the process.
  • You’re passionate about building next-generation products for the fast-growing ecommerce industry.
  • You have worked on platform artifacts and understand services, APIs and frameworks.
  • You have a technical background, or have a technical orientation, enough to get in the weeds with engineers to understand the pros and cons of different technologies, design and potential solutions.
  • You have a laser focus on the customer which enables you to have a deep understanding of their pain points and how they use the product.
  • You use data to inform and defend your decisions.
  • You’re able to develop a long term plan and then work with the team to break it into smaller chunks, each adding more customer value.
  • You value market research and, when it comes to the competition, you have your finger on the pulse.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at BigCommerce

 

We have the opportunity to build not only a great business but a great company, with soul. Our beliefs and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion are a central part of achieving that.

 

Our dedication to DEI is grounded in two things: a moral belief in the dignity, value, and potential of every individual, and a practical belief that diverse, inclusive teams will create the best outcomes for our customers, partners, employees, and company. We welcome everyone to be a part of our journey.

 

Current BigCommerce Employees: Please use the internal job board to apply for openings

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What are BigCommerce Perks + Benefits

BigCommerce Benefits Overview

We empower our employees to think big and do great work by offering a positive work environment and outstanding benefits.

For your health: We offer multiple national medical insurance plans including PPO and HDHP options. We also offer a PPO dental plan and vision insurance.

For your wealth: We offer a 401(k) retirement plan, a Health Savings Account (HSA), a Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCRA) as pre-tax benefits. We also offer company paid life insurance up to 3 times your annual salary, as well as company paid short-term & long-term disability insurance.

For your resilient self: We care about your wellbeing in addition to your health and wealth. To assist with that, we offer paid vacation leave (15 days PTO for hourly employees and open vacation for our salary employees). All employees receive paid sick leave, paid volunteer time, and a paid wellness day. We have multiple family benefits for caregivers including paid parental leave, newborn child sick leave, adoption assistance, and a flexible return to work policy. We also offer educational reimbursements, a free BigCommerce ecommerce store, and an Employee Assistance Program.

Last, but definitely not least, we like to enjoy ourselves at work. We have company-sponsored employee programs including Employee Resource Groups, culture clubs, even virtual events.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We encourage our employees to give back to our local communities through volunteer work. BigCommerce provides two paid Charity/Volunteering Leave days per calendar year to all permanent employees.
Partners with nonprofits
Each year, the BC family partners with Partnerships for Children to help kids in the Austin area who have been taken from their homes and are living in protective custody during the holidays.
Open door policy
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
BEmpowered for women, non-binary people, and allies; BProud for LGBTQ+ and allies; B-United for Veterans and allies; BCinColor for people of color and allies; BigFamily for caregivers and alli
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
National United HealthCare PPO & HDHP plan options with deductibles as low as $500, coverage up to 100% for in-network services and low monthly premiums
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
BigCommerce offers equity to employees through a number of different occasions, including an annual equity performance review period.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Unlimited vacation policy for salaried team members and generous accrued time off policy for non-exempt team members.
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
We offer employees parking in a garage on the property.
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
BigCommerce offers a variety of opportunities for learning and development from training sessions and workshops, to different conferences to attend.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Career mentorship is available.
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

We empower our employees to define culture in the areas of wellness and fitness, community & volunteerism, and team building through local culture clubs to help our employees connect. Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) support our diverse workforce through supportive, inclusive networks that help develop awareness and respect across the company. Additionally, we use programs to support our learning culture including our Learning Through Sharing Program, Lightning Talks, Lunch and Learns, Book Clubs, and guest speakers. We sustain our culture by understanding what drives our employees' engagement, measuring that engagement, and implementing initiatives to continue to make BigCommerce an even better place to work!

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