[Hiring] Teamlead Product Management @Checkmk GmbH

Role Description

Thousands of companies rely on Checkmk to tell them something is wrong before their users notice. That means two things at once: monitoring infrastructure properly, from operating systems and networks to databases, virtualization and cloud, and building out observability with metrics, logs and later traces for the same admins and SREs.

We are looking for someone to lead that work. You take over a team of three product managers who currently report to the VP Product, you fill the open fourth position, and you sponsor the initiatives that shape monitoring and observability at Checkmk. Your peers are the other Heads of Product.

Are you tired of environments where product managers turn sales requests into tickets? Our PMs talk to users themselves, dig into the technology, and decide what gets built. Protecting that is part of the job.

Leading the team

• Lead and develop three product managers, with one open position to fill now and more likely next year
• Run your own hiring, from role definition to the final call
• Coach product craft: discovery, prioritization, working with engineering, saying no and making it stick
• Set clear goals, give feedback people can use, and handle performance conversations honestly
• Represent your team and its priorities towards engineering, sales, support, and consulting

Sponsoring the initiatives

• Sponsor the initiatives in your area, the larger product bets we plan, fund and sequence each year
• Carry them from the first problem statement through to adoption after release, not only to the release date
• Stay close to the work: user interviews, discovery, competitive analysis, and using the product yourself
• Work with engineering leadership on scope, sequencing, and what gets cut when a release date is fixed
• Bring evidence from users, the market, and your own data into annual planning

Qualifications

• Experience leading product people. Formal line management is ideal, a small team or a strong mentoring track record can work too
• A solid technical grounding in IT infrastructure, networks, cloud, and containers. You can hold your own with engineers and with SREs
• A track record as a product manager or product owner in an agile environment, on products built for technical users
• You work from evidence. You talk to users yourself, and you can explain why you cut something
• Excellent English. German is a plus
• At least one of the following (no single one is a knockout criterion):
• Hands-on experience with monitoring or observability tooling such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or the Elastic stack
• A background as sysadmin, SRE, or system engineer before you moved into product
• A talent for getting into an unfamiliar technology fast, from documentation, a lab setup or an hour with an engineer, and turning it into product decisions

Benefits

• The chance to make a decisive impact and shape the future of a dynamic, fast growing tech company while growing with your tasks and responsibilities
• Flexible and family-friendly working conditions in a stable environment
• Workation: we offer the opportunity to work 6 weeks within EU to extend e.g. your vacation
• With the wide range of sports and wellness offers from Wellpass, you can choose from over 9,000 sports and wellness offers
• An agile team that embodies autonomy and fast decision making within flat hierarchies
• A unique corporate culture where we emphasize equality, diversity and inclusion
• A wide range of education and training opportunities
• Fully remote work or high flexibility between mobile work and an office in one of the most beautiful, central district of Munich
• An attractive salary
• Regular onsite events of all sorts (Company Outings, Team events, Checkmk Conference, Conference After Party and more) in a familiar atmosphere

Company Description

We are the creators of Checkmk, a leading hybrid IT monitoring software for both cloud-native and traditional infrastructures and applications. Checkmk is available as an open-source and commercial edition. We are a strong team of software developers and DevOps, open-source enthusiasts and nerds who are passionate about helping small and large companies run their complex IT infrastructures reliably. Over the last years we have grown from 20 to over 250 employees to support our customer growth in Europe, the US and beyond.

We are a dynamic, fast growing and easy-going company where positive collaboration is very important. We are more than just colleagues; we have a strong team and a great customer community. For us, high autonomy and flat hierarchies are not just words on paper, but everyday life. With us you don’t work as one of hundreds or on purely theoretical questions but have an immediate positive influence.

With our product, we make the lives of thousands of administrators easier and help them in coping with the increasing complexity of IT. Our customers love our product and your work helps to keep it that way!