Product Manager
Stainless
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Job Description
About Stainless
Stainless is a rapidly expanding tech startup focused on pioneering the future of APIs, serving industry giants such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare. The company has successfully raised over $35 million from top-tier investors like a16z, Sequoia, and influential founders/C-levels from companies including Stripe, Datadog, Segment, and Linear. Headquartered in NYC, west of SoHo, Stainless currently boasts a team of approximately 60 individuals, with plans to double in size over the next 9 to 12 months.
About The Product Manager Role
Stainless is seeking its inaugural Product Manager to thoughtfully scale the product. With a robust technical foundation and proven customer traction, this role involves working directly with the founder and engineering team to define the product roadmap, development processes, and timelines. The ideal candidate is highly technical, passionate about understanding customer needs, and adept at translating insights into high-leverage product decisions. This position offers significant ownership and impact from day one, contributing to building the product from the ground up.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate closely with engineering to scope and deliver features efficiently.
- Engage regularly with users to understand workflows and inform product improvements.
- Define clear product requirements and ensure cross-functional alignment.
- Support positioning, launches, and go-to-market strategies with marketing and sales.
Who You Are
- Possess a software engineering background with a strong technical grasp of APIs, architecture, and developer workflows.
- Demonstrate clear, structured thinking and exceptional communication abilities.
- Have a proven entrepreneurial spirit or experience initiating projects (business, club, non-profit, student org).
- Comfortable with ambiguity and eager to build and innovate from the ground up.
Benefits
Stainless offers a competitive salary and generous equity grants. Employees receive excellent healthcare coverage options, including fully covered platinum plans, and paid commuter benefits. Team lunches/meals are provided on workdays. The company promotes work-life balance with flexible PTO, plus three weeks of company-wide vacation annually (two weeks in December, one in late summer). Additionally, there’s flexible work-from-home policy and one month fully remote per year ("remote February").
Key skills/competency
- Product Management
- API Development
- Software Engineering
- Technical Product Ownership
- Customer Empathy
- Strategic Planning
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Developer Workflows
- Entrepreneurial Mindset
How to Get Hired at Stainless
- Research Stainless's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Highlight technical product management expertise: Customize your resume to showcase API knowledge, developer tools experience, and a software engineering background crucial for Stainless.
- Demonstrate entrepreneurial drive: Provide concrete examples of initiatives you've started, aligning with Stainless's "builder at heart" ethos.
- Prepare for product strategy discussions: Be ready to articulate how you'd define requirements, prioritize features, and drive product clarity for the Product Manager role.
- Showcase problem-solving skills: During interviews, focus on how you've translated complex customer needs into actionable product solutions at Stainless.
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