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Principal Technical Product Manager, Fast Futures (Remote)
MattermostSan Francisco, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Jan 2024
About the role
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle. Hundreds of thousands of developers around the globe trust Mattermost to increase their productivity by bringing together team communication, task and project management, and workflow orchestration into a unified platform for agile software development.
Founded in 2016, Mattermost’s open source platform powers over 800,000 workspaces worldwide with the support of over 4,000 contributors from across the developer community. The company serves over 800 customers, including European Parliament, NASA, Nasdaq, Samsung, SAP, United States Air Force and Wealthfront, and is backed by world-class investors including Battery Ventures, Redpoint, S28 Capital, YC Continuity. To learn more, visit www.mattermost.com.
We value high impact work, ownership, self-awareness and being focused on customer success. If these values match who you are, we hope you'll learn more about working at Mattermost and apply!
This is a senior individual contributor role ideally for a former startup founder or early employee who will report directly to Mattermost’s CEO to lead a small “Fast Futures” team prototyping new offerings. The charter of the group is to work with key customers and prospects developing and pre-selling new adjacent offerings ten times (10x) faster than via our mainstream engineering operations. The Fast Futures group takes a new offering through its experimental and alpha stages owning delivery to a small set of initial customers and works during the beta stage to transition ownership to mainstream product and engineering, who will be accountable to bringing the work to General Availability for the broader customer base.
Over the last two years Mattermost has seen an acceleration of adoption by cybersecurity professionals in national security centers and security organizations around the world for the ability to operate in air-gapped environments, to deeply integrate with both legacy and modern cloud native tooling and to provide end users a reliable and easy-to-use ChatOps experience across web, desktop and mobile.
We are eager to accelerate our product vision for supporting collaborative workflows and automation for security professionals in a dedicated offering with extended capabilities built on the Mattermost platform. For this objective, we are seeking a hands-on and collaborative Principal Product Manager to “operate at all levels” on a) running discovery and sales of new product concepts in mission critical organizations (among defense, government and enterprise customers and prospects), b) leading the definition and prototyping of new Mattermost collaboration offerings for cybersecurity stakeholders (security operations, product security, IT security as well as engineering, legal, public relations and senior leadership) identifying, defending and recovering from cyberthreats (out-of-band communications, Red Team operations, breach response/digital forensics and incident response, product security, security operations among other use cases), c) working with our sales, marketing and partner organizations to announce, demonstrate, and prove the early prototype, alpha and beta versions of our release in market running “closed loop” operation incorporating customer feedback and rapid delivery of product adjustments in a fast-cycle framework, d) collaborating with mainstream product engineering organization to extend our mainline product.
This role reports to the CEO and co-founder of Mattermost and works with a “Fast Futures” team tasked to define, develop, prototype and secure sales commitments from current and potential customers for new offerings prior to operationalization in the core product engineering organization.
The most important requirement for this role is the ability to rapidly iterate on new product concepts by connecting with security professionals, both from Mattermost users and customers as well as from broader communities, and developing, prototyping and validating new capabilities to the point where we have customer purchase commitments that will “green light” full production of concepts.
An ideal candidate can “operate at all levels” and has either previously founded, or joined as an early employee, of a B2B, GovTech or DefenseTech company or worked in fast-moving organizations on zero-to-one product extensions and has hands-on technical success as a developer, cybersecurity professional, and/or pre-sales or post-sales engineer with exceptionally strong abilities in communication, developing product vision, storytelling, influence and sales.
Founded in 2016, Mattermost’s open source platform powers over 800,000 workspaces worldwide with the support of over 4,000 contributors from across the developer community. The company serves over 800 customers, including European Parliament, NASA, Nasdaq, Samsung, SAP, United States Air Force and Wealthfront, and is backed by world-class investors including Battery Ventures, Redpoint, S28 Capital, YC Continuity. To learn more, visit www.mattermost.com.
We value high impact work, ownership, self-awareness and being focused on customer success. If these values match who you are, we hope you'll learn more about working at Mattermost and apply!
This is a senior individual contributor role ideally for a former startup founder or early employee who will report directly to Mattermost’s CEO to lead a small “Fast Futures” team prototyping new offerings. The charter of the group is to work with key customers and prospects developing and pre-selling new adjacent offerings ten times (10x) faster than via our mainstream engineering operations. The Fast Futures group takes a new offering through its experimental and alpha stages owning delivery to a small set of initial customers and works during the beta stage to transition ownership to mainstream product and engineering, who will be accountable to bringing the work to General Availability for the broader customer base.
Over the last two years Mattermost has seen an acceleration of adoption by cybersecurity professionals in national security centers and security organizations around the world for the ability to operate in air-gapped environments, to deeply integrate with both legacy and modern cloud native tooling and to provide end users a reliable and easy-to-use ChatOps experience across web, desktop and mobile.
We are eager to accelerate our product vision for supporting collaborative workflows and automation for security professionals in a dedicated offering with extended capabilities built on the Mattermost platform. For this objective, we are seeking a hands-on and collaborative Principal Product Manager to “operate at all levels” on a) running discovery and sales of new product concepts in mission critical organizations (among defense, government and enterprise customers and prospects), b) leading the definition and prototyping of new Mattermost collaboration offerings for cybersecurity stakeholders (security operations, product security, IT security as well as engineering, legal, public relations and senior leadership) identifying, defending and recovering from cyberthreats (out-of-band communications, Red Team operations, breach response/digital forensics and incident response, product security, security operations among other use cases), c) working with our sales, marketing and partner organizations to announce, demonstrate, and prove the early prototype, alpha and beta versions of our release in market running “closed loop” operation incorporating customer feedback and rapid delivery of product adjustments in a fast-cycle framework, d) collaborating with mainstream product engineering organization to extend our mainline product.
This role reports to the CEO and co-founder of Mattermost and works with a “Fast Futures” team tasked to define, develop, prototype and secure sales commitments from current and potential customers for new offerings prior to operationalization in the core product engineering organization.
The most important requirement for this role is the ability to rapidly iterate on new product concepts by connecting with security professionals, both from Mattermost users and customers as well as from broader communities, and developing, prototyping and validating new capabilities to the point where we have customer purchase commitments that will “green light” full production of concepts.
An ideal candidate can “operate at all levels” and has either previously founded, or joined as an early employee, of a B2B, GovTech or DefenseTech company or worked in fast-moving organizations on zero-to-one product extensions and has hands-on technical success as a developer, cybersecurity professional, and/or pre-sales or post-sales engineer with exceptionally strong abilities in communication, developing product vision, storytelling, influence and sales.
Responsibilities
- Development of New Revenue Streams - Lead definition, development and validation for “zero-to-one” new offerings with funded by pre-commitments from customers and/or
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