Senior Technical Product Manager

About ngrok Inc.

At ngrok, we believe that doing networking the right way should also be the easy way. Over the last 10 years, we’ve given developers and engineers simple interfaces for getting traffic into their apps and APIs without forcing them to deal with legacy proxies, external load balancers, or VPNs, and we’re now part of the standard stack for more than 9 million developers at some of the world’s top technology brands, like GitHub, Okta, HashiCorp, and Twilio.

Over the last few years, we’ve completely changed how that interface looks and works to make it easier, more composable, and infinitely flexible. We now give anyone who needs a “front door” to their apps or APIs powerful tools to orchestrate traffic, secure public endpoints, accelerate their services on a global network, observe all traffic passing to/from their network, and much more. The ngrok that millions love and trust has been completely transformed for the better.

The opportunity

As a Senior Technical Product Manager (PM) at ngrok, you will spearhead building the next generation of products that redefine the developer experience to increase the pace of innovation on the internet. As a pivotal link between our customers and engineering team, you’ll navigate seamlessly between the factory and the field to construct feedback loops, map problems to real features and products, write detailed product specs, test hypotheses, and deliver insights. Embracing a deeply technical product designed for an equally technical audience is essential.

This is a remote position for candidates outside of the Bay Area and a hybrid role for candidates within commuting distance to San Francisco. Our Bay Area employees commute to the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. At this time, ngrok is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent, ongoing basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

What you’ll accomplish

Within 30 days

• Develop expertise on the ngrok product, our market, our competition
• Author product specifications based on customer use cases and prioritize the requirements
• Bring market observations and customer feedback into technical conversations with engineering

Within 3 months

• Charter new projects, with your role as product owner from the beginning
• Evangelize our vision to internal and external stakeholders
• Represent the customer and be their champion in conversations with engineering
• Proactively seek the input you need to make critical, strategical prioritization decisions for the product roadmap

Skills

• 8+ years of experience as an individual contributing Technical Product Manager or developer
• Experience product managing large distributed products
• Excitement to move quickly and fail fast in a collaborative environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Software engineering background
• Prior experience at a startup
• Open source contributions and engagement a plus
• Passion and empathy for building products for developer audiences, leveraging your own experience as a developer to understand their needs and challenges
• We’d love to see a mix of experience with the following technology areas: API Gateways, Application Gateways, Software Networking, HTTP, DNS, BGP, VPC, VPN, Kubernetes, Load Balancers, Wireshark, DDoS, CDN, WAF, Firewall, Wireguard
• Experience with API Gateways or API Management strongly preferred

Compensation

Tier 1 (SF, LA, Seattle, NYC): Minimum salary of $168,000 to maximum $210,000

Tier 2 (rest of US) : Minimum salary of $155,000 to maximum $193,000

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), internal equity with other team members, market data, and specific work location.

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All candidates must be US-based, and legally authorized to work in the United States.

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. ngrok is on a mission to build a special company. To achieve our goal, we are focused on hiring people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences!

Benefits

Compensation for this role depends on level, but we provide a competitive mix of salary and equity.

We provide a 401(k) with a 100% match up to 3% of your salary and a 50% match up to another 2%.

We provide healthcare, dental, and vision with premiums fully covered on the base plan for employees. Half of premiums are covered for dependents.

We offer unlimited PTO and a culture in which the overwhelming majority of employees take more than four weeks. Your manager is also on the hook for encouraging you to do the same.