[Hiring] Staff Product Manager- Developer Experience @dbt Labs

Role Description

The way data practitioners write, debug, and ship dbt code is changing fast — and you'll be the person shaping what that experience looks like at the frontier of AI-assisted development.

As the Product Manager for Developer Experience, you will own the end-to-end developer workflow in dbt Cloud:

• Studio IDE
• Developer Agent (our AI coding assistant)
• Cloud CLI
• dbt VS Code Extension

Together, these surfaces are the primary daily touchpoint for tens of thousands of data practitioners worldwide — from seasoned analytics engineers writing complex SQL to newer practitioners who rely on AI to help them move faster and with more confidence.

This role sits at the intersection of developer tooling and leading-edge AI. You will work in close partnership with the Fusion team — the engine powering dbt's next-generation compilation, intelligence, and platform capabilities — to ensure that our developer surfaces fully leverage Fusion's capabilities and that developer needs are represented in the Fusion roadmap. The tight feedback loop between Developer Experience and Fusion is core to how dbt Cloud will evolve, and you'll be a key architect of that relationship.

This is a role for someone who has thought deeply about what makes IDEs and developer tools great, and who is excited to reimagine those workflows in an era where AI can lower the floor for new practitioners while raising the ceiling for experts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent on developer tools, IDEs, or technical platforms.
• Direct experience managing IDE or developer environment products.
• Demonstrated engagement with AI-powered development tools.
• A strong technical foundation that allows you to work fluently with engineering partners.
• Experience conducting user research and translating developer feedback into prioritized, scoped product work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort working asynchronously as part of a distributed, remote team.

Requirements

• Own the developer experience roadmap across Studio IDE, Developer Agent, Cloud CLI, and the VS Code Extension.
• Partner deeply with the Fusion team to align on capabilities and surface Fusion-powered intelligence through developer-facing UX.
• Lead AI-native product development for Developer Agent.
• Drive IDE and tooling strategy informed by a deep understanding of modern development environments.
• Define and execute cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, and GTM teams.
• Build tight feedback loops with the dbt community and enterprise customers.
• Conduct market and user research to understand the competitive landscape for developer tooling.
• Align developer experience investments to broader company goals and product-led growth metrics.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
• Excellent healthcare
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness stipend
• Home office stipend, and more!

Company Description

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, we’ve grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 90,000 teams every week, driving data transformations and AI use cases.

We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:

• Reliable, high-quality data is the fuel that propels AI-powered data engineering.
• AI is changing data work, fast.
• We empower engineers to deliver reliable, governed data faster, cheaper, and at scale.

dbt Labs is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world.