Meili is a solution made by developers for developers. Today, the open source version of MeiliSearch has more than 3000 instances running in production today and more than a million downloads. To answer our users' demand, we are developing a cloud-hosted version, that we will be able to monetize in the months to come.
As a Cloud Product Manager, it is essential you understand developers and more specifically our community of users, in order to better address their expectations and needs.
Currently the team is composed of two full-stack developers, Nicolas and Samuel, and a product designer, Léna. They are managed by Thomas, our COO, and Quentin, our CEO. The project is only just beginning: the Cloud solution is available in a closed beta version, and we have received in one month more than 300 applications to take part in the test.
As a Cloud Product Manager, one of your first main responsibilities will be to streamline the product discovery phase, through roadmap prioritization, building and sharing our product vision with our users, and being an ambassador for this vision within our teams. You will have the support of Meili's product team as well as an open-source community of over 13,000 active people to support you in this mission.
What you’ll be doing
As a Product Manager your role will include:
👉 Prioritizing and defining which features to develop, in alignment with user feedback and the global product vision,
👉 Defining the product roadmap, preferably transparently on GitHub:
👉 Conducting market research/analysis and user research to better understand our user and customer needs,
👉 In collaboration with Meili founders, defining the product positioning (pricing, wording, communication...),
👉 More generally, being the point of contact internally & externally regarding the cloud offer and its roadmap.
As a MeiliSearch team member, you will also:
👉 Help in supporting developers use MeiliSearch,
👉 Participate in answering the community’s questions in Slack and GitHub.
Our ideal profile
We are aware that the ideal profile for this role might not exist: if you feel that you don't completely fit the requirements, but are interested in the role, don't hesitate to apply!
Soft skills
Your fit with our team is as important to us as your technical knowledge, if not more so. We are looking for someone with these important soft skills:
- Strong organizational skills,
- Humble & with a thirst for knowledge,
- Committed,
- Initiative & ownership, self-driven.
Hard skills
Must-have
- +5 years experience as a technical Product Manager (preferably with a SaaS product)
- Fully autonomous with product discovery: user interviews, defining needs, prioritizing a roadmap,
- Able to set up product-related processes within a team
- Former experience in a tech environment, either as a former developer or working on a very technical product,
- Fluent written and oral communication in English.
Nice to have
- Experience in implementing marketing processes (Net Promoter Score, AARRRR marketing framework, analytics funnel...),
- Experience in market research and competitor benchmarking,
- Knowledge in UX design,
- Understanding of new DevOps stacks (Kubernetes/Serverless/Edge).
Why you'll enjoy working with us
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