Product Manager Observability

Job highlights

• Min 2 years product management experience with technical background and expertise in observability tools like New Relic, Splunk, Grafana, Open Telemetry
• Lead observability initiatives, drive adoption of monitoring practices, collaborate across engineering, operations, and product teams, and manage change effectively

Job Summary

Responsibilities

• Interpersonal and leadership skills
• Collaboration and cross functional alignment
• Ability to work with diverse teams including engineering, operations, product and leadership
• Skilled at mediating between conflicting priorities and driving consensus
• User-centric approach
• Empathy for end users (developers, operators), ensuring solutions are intuitive and effective
• Change Management
• Experience in leading initiatives that introduce new processes, concepts and tools
• Ability to drive adoption of observability practices within the organization
• Influence and advocacy serve as a champion for observability, fostering a culture the proactive monitoring and reliability

Requirements

• Understanding observability concepts strong grasp of the observability pillars - logs, metrics, traces familiarity with distributed systems, microservices and their challenges
• Experience with Observability tools
• Hands on knowledge of tools like New Relic, Splunk, Grafana, VM and Open Telemetry
• Exposure to trends in observability frameworks and standards.
• Engineering experience
• Ability to collaborate with engineering, understanding their points and translate into product needs.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycles, CICD and DevOps.
• Exposure to APIs, Backend Apps.
• Data Analysis
• Ability to interpret patterns, anomalies and opportunities from complex sets of data.

Qualifications

• Min 2 years of Product management experience.
• Technical education: degrees in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience
• Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to drive data-driven decisions.
• Understanding how observability impacts business like availability/reliability, customer Satisfaction and business impact.
• Prior experience in observability or devops proven track record in building and managing observability systems.
• Prioritisation and decision-making skills demonstrating how these have taken into account business priorities, complexity, dependencies and value.

Skills

• Observability concepts
• New Relic
• Splunk
• Grafana
• Open Telemetry
• APIs
• Backend Apps
• DevOps.