Standouts

• Expert Product leader in building and delivering

  • Developer tools, SDKs, developer facing products and documentation

  • Developer experience platforms (DevSecOps, GitOps, CI/CD)

  • Internal and external facing high performant scalable API platforms (to support marketplace, ecosystems)

  • Complex high performant and scalable data stores

  • Define and track metrics for technology platforms

• Deep knowledge and experience working with both technical and non-technical members (business leaders, operations, customer service rep etc.)

• Profound experience in building product and engineering teams (sizes: 6 - 46)

• Years of successful experience in leading cross functional teams including directors, managers of managers, engineering and product members

• Handling budgets of $1M - $10 M and upwards

• Skilled in identifying key opportunities to rapidly scale platform adoption

Product Skills

• Deep Problem Understanding: Prioritize understanding the “problem space” thoroughly before formulating strategy and solutions.

• Vision and Strategy Development: Expert in building compelling product vision, craft product strategy, and define clear “winning aspirations.”

• Market and Competitive Analysis: Conduct in-depth market research and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and inform decisions.

• User and Customer Insights: Develop detailed personas and map user and customer journeys to uncover needs and pain points.

• Clear Documentation: Write concise and comprehensive Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) to ensure alignment and clarity.

• Engagement Activities: Facilitate interviews, focus groups, and workshops to gain a deep understanding of the “problem space.”

• Prioritization Frameworks: Apply methodologies like Kano, RICE, and MoSCoW to prioritize effectively and align with business goals.

• Metrics and Analytics: Define and track KPIs and leverage product analytics to monitor performance and guide decisions.

• Roadmap Planning: Develop actionable short- and long-term roadmaps that align with organizational objectives.

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Establish metrics frameworks to drive insights and decisions based on data.

• Experimentation and Feedback Loops: Set up systems for continuous experimentation, feedback collection, and data analysis.

• Go-To-Market Strategy: Plan and execute effective go-to-market strategies to ensure successful product launches.

• Leadership and Ownership: Lead from the front with complete product and solution ownership, taking responsibility and being the first to act if challenges arise.

• Cross-Organizational Collaboration: Foster strong partnerships across all levels of the organization.

• Customer Trust: Build trusted and meaningful relationships with customers to drive mutual success.

• Effective Negotiation: Navigate complex negotiations with a focus on achieving win-win outcomes.

• Stakeholder Management: Manage stakeholders with nuance, ensuring alignment and collaboration.

• Team Building and Leadership: Develop high-performing product teams and nurture future product leaders.

• Culture of Trust and Respect: Cultivate a team culture that values trust, respect, and productive disagreement while staying aligned with goals.

• Champion of Product-Led Growth (PLG): Advocate for and implement strategies that prioritize growth driven by the product.

• Integrity and Principles: Act as a champion of “doing the right thing,” fostering ethical decision-making and accountability.

Leadership

• Customer-Centric Focus: Ensure the team remains focused on addressing pain points rather than merely delivering a “feature factory.”

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Foster alignment between engineering, UX, and leadership through consistent and effective communication.

• Feedback-Driven Approach: Establish feedback loops to enable rapid learning and course correction.

• Prioritization Excellence: Relentlessly prioritize features that align with strategic goals and deliver maximum impact.

• Risk Management: Proactively identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure smooth execution.

• Budget Oversight: Monitor team and infrastructure budgets to maintain financial discipline.

• Hands-On Leadership: Dive into the technical details of code and solutions when necessary to support the team.

• Strategic Trade-Offs: Lead trade-off discussions with architecture and engineering teams to balance innovation, feasibility, and timelines.

• User-Centric Design: Guide UX efforts to deliver a seamless and intuitive user experience.

Drive the solution

• CI/CD tools (Harness, Argo and similar tools)

• IaC (Infrastructure as code - Terraform, Pulumi, yaml)

• Backstage based Internal developer portals

• Cloud native development and deployment (Containers, Kubernetes operator and similar stack)

• Microservice architecture

• Event driven architecture

• API design, security and management (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)

• Open API spec (Swagger) and Mardown text

• Kafka ecosystem

• AWS Cloud

• SQL (for data analysis)

• Python (for writing utilities and data analysis)

• Branching strategies

• ETL and ELT tools and frameworks like MuleSoft

• Grafana

• Kibana

• SOLID principles

Tech Stack

Tools Experience

• Aha!

• Jira

• Trello

• Confluence

• Microsoft Excel

• Smartsheets

• Lucidchart

• Draw.io

• Google Analytics and similar tools

• Slack, Teams

• Powerpoint, Canva