Every day we tackle new and exciting challenges to empower developers to build modern cloud, mobile, and edge applications that deliver a premium user experience. Couchbase delivers unmatched performance, scalability, flexibility and financial value across cloud, on premises, hybrid, mobile and edge deployments. The database market is undergoing a generational shift and is one of the largest market opportunities in enterprise software due to big trends like the need for digital transformation, acceleration to the cloud and innovation at the edge. Join Couchbase to be a part of a greater change. Here you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the most innovative, passionate and humble individuals in the database industry.
We are seeking a strategic Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience, UI responsible for creating data-driven insights and optimizing the user journey, focusing on seamless onboarding and an engaging product experience. This role emphasizes on delivering exceptional user experiences and improving developer engagement through intuitive UI for Couchbase’s managed cloud offering.
Key Responsibilities:
- UI/UX Requirements: Define UI requirements and partner closely with UX/UI designers, frontend engineers, and feature Product Managers to define developer journeys are intuitive and efficient. Define KPIs for developer experience and UI effectiveness
- Product Roadmap Contribution: Shape the developer experience roadmap by making data-driven recommendations, specifically focusing on optimizing onboarding flows and reducing user friction. Contribute to the vision for the product experience, focusing on how the UI supports and enhances usability and engagement. Align UI goals with broader product objectives and business priorities
- Data-Driven Insights & UI Analytics:.Develop and manage Pendo dashboards to track key performance indicators (KPIs), providing regular reporting to key stakeholders. Utilize data-driven insights to monitor and analyze developer UI interactions. Leverage these insights to uncover user behavior patterns, pinpoint friction points, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Developer-Centric Feature Design: As new features are added to the platform, ensure they are presented in an accessible way for both new and experienced developers. Collaborate closely with feature Product Managers and design teams to define workflows for maximize usability.
- User Research & Competitive Analysis: Conduct user research, analyze developer needs, and stay informed about competitor product experience is to ensure our platform stands out for ease of use
- Developer Advocacy & Engagement: Ensure the platform delivers value that keeps developers engaged, delighted, and motivated to advocate for Couchbase.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in product management or equivalent frontend engineering and design experience, particularly for developer-centric Enterprise SaaS technology products.
- Background as a frontend developer for a SaaS or cloud-based solutions is highly desirable.
- Proficiency in using UI analytics tools (e.g., Pendo, Mixpanel) to gather insights, monitor engagement, and guide product decisions.
- Good understanding of distributed database platforms and experience designing experiences for complex systems.
- Solid UI/UX design understanding with an ability to collaborate effectively with designers, engineers, and cross-functional teams.
- Proficiency in front-end development concepts (eg. React, vue) and familiarity with design tools (eg, Figma, Sketch etc).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to convey insights and ideas clearly.
Bonus Qualifications
- Familiarity with experiences with emerging AI platforms, no-code/low-code platforms
- Familiarity with product-led growth (PLG) principles and experience implementing PLG strategies to drive user acquisition and retention through improved product experience.
Why Couchbase?
Modern customer experiences need a flexible cloud database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase’s mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers– all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications and build innovative new ones. See our recent awards to learn why Couchbase is a great place to work.We are honored to be a part of the Best Places to Work Award for the Bay Area and the UK. Couchbase offers a total rewards approach to benefits that recognizes the value you create here, so that you in turn may best serve yourself and your family. Some benefits include:
- Generous Time Off Program - Flexibility to care for you and your family
- Wellness Benefits - A variety of world class medical plans to choose from, along with dental, vision, life insurance, and employee assistance programs*
- Financial Planning - RSU equity program*, ESPP program*, Retirement program* and Business Travel Insurance
- Career Growth - Be valued, Create value approach
- Fun Perks - An ergonomic and comfortable in-office / WFH setup. Food & Snacks for in-office employees.
- And much more!
*Note: some programs are not applicable to all countries. Please discuss with a Couchbase recruiter to learn more.
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Unlike other NoSQL databases, Couchbase provides an enterprise-class, multicloud to edge database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform. Couchbase is built on open standards, combining the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, to simplify the transition from mainframe and relational databases.
