About CloudBees

CloudBees provides the leading software delivery platform for enterprises, enabling them to continuously innovate, compete, and win in a world powered by the digital experience. Designed for the world's largest organizations with the most complex requirements, CloudBees enables software development organizations to deliver scalable, compliant, governed, and secure software from the code a developer writes to the people who use it. The platform connects with other best-of-breed tools, improves the developer experience, and enables organizations to bring digital innovation to life continuously, adapt quickly, and unlock business outcomes that create market leaders and disruptors.

CloudBees was founded in 2010 and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bridgepoint Credit, HSBC, Golub Capital, Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Visit www.cloudbees.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

About the role

This specific opening is for an exceptional candidate to help drive our CloudBees CI capability. We are looking for an experienced Product Manager. You will leverage your analytical and technical skills, data-driven decision-making, communication and tactical execution skills to help guide our teams in increasing their velocity of delivering new and enhanced values to our customers.

What You’ll Do

You'll join the team of product managers in creating and delivering on the product roadmap.

You'll be embedded into one of the multidisciplinary pods and be responsible for setting, prioritizing, and accepting the work generated by the team in order to ensure the most valuable and proper functionality of the product is delivered to our customers.

You'll bring your area of expertise to the creation and delivery of the product roadmap:

• Understand business objectives.
• Ensure product is in line with product strategy and business goals.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure on-time, on-target and on-quality delivery of the roadmap.

You'll translate the overall product vision and strategy to the team level:

• Keep the team focused on highest value.
• Create and owns the team's product backlog.
• Be the voice of our customers.
• Drive common understanding, helps the team understand the "why" and the user's job-to-be-done.
• Collaborate with the team to arrive at fully defined and meaningful value increments (define epics, break it down into user stories, define acceptance criteria).
• Foster a culture of data-informed decision making and ensure that product data and instrumentation initiatives support that.
• Prioritize backlog items, taking into account overall strategy, balance between scope, budget, time, customer and internal demands.
• Be hands-on with the product and technologies, inspect and evaluate progress through each iteration.
• Determine whether the final deliverable is acceptable.

You'll contribute to each stage of the development process and act as a liaison to stakeholders:

• Establish strong trusting relationships with the field organization and regularly communicate product roadmap and deliverables both internally and externally.
• Make the work visible, transparent and clear to all.
• Work closely with product marketers to develop compelling messaging and positioning that explain technical and business value in simple, understandable terms.
• Set a focused and achievable Sprint goal together with the team.
• Inform and involves internal stakeholders of priority changes, risks and progress.
• Work with research and design to create best customer experiences.
• Collaborate with engineering to validate technical feasibility and effort estimates.
• Work with the team to refine and improve the development process.
• Drive the Sprint review to celebrate achievements.

Role Requirements

• Working knowledge of Jenkins.
• 2-5+ years working experience with Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology.
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycle and activities.
• Working knowledge of DevOps concepts and tools.
• Experience in coordinating activities across functional teams.
• Ability to prioritize effectively.
• Empathy for users and deep understanding of how they interact with the product.
• Excellent English (oral and written) communication skills.

We’re invested in you!

We offer generous paid time off to allow our employees time to rest, recharge and to be present with family and friends throughout the year.

At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers.  A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity—gender, racial, ethnic, and global—are stronger partners to their customers.  Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization.

In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage.  CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers.  CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide work force and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere. Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem-solving and better solutions for our customers and their businesses.

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