Why this job is exciting
We are creating a machine learning team at Sourcegraph, aimed at creating the most powerful coding assistant in the world. Many companies are trying, but Sourcegraph is uniquely differentiated by our rich code intelligence data and powerful code search platform. In the world of prompting LLMs, context is everything, and Sourcegraph’s context is simply the best you can get: IDE-quality, global-scale, and served lightning fast. We are oftentimes the only tool which has indexed all of a company's code across all teams and systems, which gives us a huge advantage. Our code intelligence, married with modern AI, is already providing a remarkable alpha experience, and you can help us unlock its full potential.
We are looking for a deeply technical Product Manager with an engineering background who is versed in search, code intelligence, and AI. And if you happen to have an entrepreneurial streak, you’re in luck: we have an enterprise distribution pipeline, so whatever you build can be deployed straight to enterprise customers with some of the largest code bases in the world, without all the go-to-market hassle you’d encounter in a startup.
Within one month, you will…
- Ramp up on search, code intel, code exploration, and AI
- Meet the teams you will be supporting and get familiar with our product, platform, and AI assistant
Within three months, you will…
- Launch a new feature which adds meaningful value to end users
- Defined a vision for how code intelligence and LLMs can work together
Within six months, you will…
- Be fully ramped up and owning key pieces of Sourcegraph’s AI strategy
- Be ramped up on other relevant parts of the Sourcegraph product
- Launch the world’s best coding assistant
About you
You are a deeply technical Product Manager, well-versed in deep learning, with a dev tools background and passion for bringing modern AI to improve the developer experience. You have experience in search, code intelligence, and AI. You have been a Product Manager for IDEs, compilers, Visual Studio, or .NET, and come from an engineering background. You empathize with developers and understand why dev tooling is sorely needed. You have experience working with research and design to deliver world class user experiences.You can hold an engineering organization accountable for their decisions. You set strategy and direction based on your deep knowledge of the product, platform, and our customer.
As a Product Manager, you tell the story behind the why of your product area. Through this, you influence, excite, and align folks within your team, and across the organization about what your team is working on. You are organized and provide clarity across the organization and within your team to help provide focus. You are constantly curious - wanting to understand and dig into the data and why behind pain points and problems that our users are facing. You can identify root causes of pain. You’re empathetic - you bring the voice of the user into every conversation, and hold empathy and understanding for your teammates to align on a solution that is right.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience working as a product manager.
- 2+ years experience working as a software engineer.
- Experience in search, code intelligence, and AI.
- Exceptional understanding of Git and/or source control systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, technical writing ability, and use of data to back up your arguments.
- Experience working with customers to understand their needs and design thoughtful solutions.
- Ability to stay focused on goals and strategically prioritize work.
- Deep passion for developer tools and productivity enhancements.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to drive and influence product strategy across engineering and design.
Nice to haves:
- You enjoy writing code and can actively contribute to our code base.