Product Manager (ex-founder or ex-product engineer)

PostHog is a product-led company that started with open-source product analytics and has shipped more than a dozen products, including PostHog Desktop (an AI developer tool), a built-in data warehouse for custom SQL insights, and PostHog AI, an AI-powered analyst for product questions and SQL queries. The company has over 450,000 organizations using its products and has raised more than $180 million from top investors. PostHog focuses on building products with small autonomous engineering teams and emphasizes transparency, autonomy, fast shipping, and ambition.

• Experience as a technical founder or product engineer with coding background.
• Strong product sense to identify product strengths and weaknesses and convert them into actionable insights.
• Familiarity with business and product metrics such as activation, retention, and churn.
• Ability to write SQL or another query language to answer data questions.
• Proactive and highly organized, capable of independently determining priorities and progressing multiple initiatives.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills in an async work environment.
• Hands-on experience with observability products and understanding of how engineers investigate and debug production issues.

Nice to have:

• Previous experience working on or managing an observability product.
• Additional data modeling experience beyond query writing.
• Experience with developer tools or AI products.
• Experience conducting user interviews and working with designers or engineers on new user experiences.

• Run growth reviews monthly for each product to ensure correct metrics and analyze user behavior and churn.
• Analyze product and customer data across more than 10 products to identify actionable patterns for growth.
• Lead competitive research and provide recommendations on pricing, feature parity, and potential new products.
• Independently choose and prioritize tasks, such as data deep dives, packaging, pricing strategies, and UX support for new product concepts.

What you won’t be doing:

• Backlog grooming
• Deciding or approving what to build
• Shielding developers from users; instead, engage engineers in user interviews
• Project management including writing tickets, RFCs, or PRDs
• Coding and shipping new features (except small PRs or hackathon contributions)

If you have a disability, accommodations can be made for the interview process upon request.