Product Manager

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September 13

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Zed

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Zed is # 1 company worldwide in monetization of value added products and services for mobile devices..

1001 - 5000 employees

💰 $15M Funding Round on 2002-08

📋 Description

• Work closely with the highly technical team of Rust Engineers and designers to curate the roadmap and structure priorities in delivering meaningful results. • Define and drive the product strategy for Zed using data, user feedback and GitHub issues. • Pair with engineering to evaluate technical tradeoffs, manage capacity, and align roadmaps with realistic timelines. • Prioritize and sequence work to maximize developer impact, balancing long-term vision with near-term execution. • Establish frameworks for scoping, planning, and projects, ensuring efficiency and focus across the team. • Gather feedback from users and internal stakeholders to refine priorities and inform product direction. • Spend time in Hex and Amplitude to inform priorities and focus on growing the number of deeply engaged Zed users. • Provide clear communication and documentation that aligns engineering, design, and leadership on objectives and outcomes.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on highly technical products (developer tools, AI, infrastructure, or cloud systems). • Strong technical fluency and comfortable engaging deeply with engineers on distributed systems, developer workflows, and API design. • Proven ability to drive prioritization, scope planning, and capacity alignment within engineering-forward teams. • Experience with balancing quantitative and qualitative data to drive roadmaps and priorities. • Track record of shipping complex technical products that balance speed, stability, and impact. • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bring clarity and focus to complex technical discussions. • Self-motivated with strong execution discipline, able to drive projects to completion in a fast-moving environment. • Comfortable working on prioritization in markdown and Github issues (we use Zed for tracking and communication). • Preferred: Experience with developer tools, open source communities, or AI Applications. • Preferred: Background in distributed systems or cloud services. • Preferred: Prior experience working with small, highly technical teams. • Preferred: Zed user or other code editors and IDEs. • Preferred: Familiarity with Rust, or strong interest in Rust and systems programming. • Preferred: Be comfortable outside of the product management tools you have already used.