Stack Overflow
Staff Strategic Product Manager - Community Products
Job Summary
The role involves leading the strategic development of community products at Stack Overflow, focusing on defining, exploring, and launching initiatives that enhance the platform for developers worldwide. The candidate should have at least 8 years of experience in product management with a strong emphasis on strategic initiatives, innovation, and working in ambiguous environments. Key responsibilities include driving product vision, roadmap ownership, market trend analysis, and collaborating with diverse teams to deliver impactful solutions. The position requires a blend of technical understanding, user-centric design, and strong communication skills, with a focus on AI/ML technologies and data-driven decision-making.
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Every developer has a tab open on Stack Overflow.
We are one of the most popular websites in the world - a community-based space focused on increasing productivity, decreasing cycle times, accelerating time to market, and protecting institutional knowledge.
Innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We embrace collaboration, transparency, and believe in leading with empathy; creating an environment where every Stacker knows they belong. We embrace that the unique contributions and points of view of all Stackers contribute to our success.
We are a Best Company to Work For, in addition to being recognized for Best Company Leadership, Best Company Happiness, Best Company Perks and Benefits, Best Company Work-Life Balance, Best Company Compensation, and Best Company Outlook.
We are a remote-first company with Hiring HUBs based in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany.
Staff Strategic Product Manager, Community Products
Are you a visionary product leader passionate about shaping the future of online communities and empowering technologists worldwide? Stack Overflow, the definitive platform for developers and technologists, is seeking a Staff Strategic Product Manager to drive the next evolution of our community products. This is a unique opportunity to define and launch innovative solutions that will impact millions, charting the course for how the world's current and next generation of technologists learn, share, and collaborate.
As a Staff Strategic Product Manager on the Community Products team, you won't just manage a product; you'll explore, evaluate, and bring to life strategic initiatives that push the boundaries of our platform and ecosystem. You'll operate at the intersection of deep user understanding, cutting-edge technology (especially AI), and market trends, working hand-in-hand with senior leadership to identify and capitalize on the biggest opportunities for growth and impact.
This role is for a proven product strategist with a strong bias for action, who thrives in ambiguous, greenfield environments and can translate complex ideas into tangible, high-impact products. If you're excited by the prospect of defining the future of knowledge sharing for developers and building products that become indispensable to their daily lives, we want to talk to you.
What you’ll do:
- Shape the Future: Partner closely with senior product leadership and lead the exploration, validation, and development of new strategic products and initiatives that redefine Stack Overflow's public community platform, identifying and seizing opportunities that significantly enhance value for technologists.
- Drive Strategic Vision: closely work with product research, design, marketing, and data science to define, iterate on, and evangelize the long-term product strategy for Community Products.
- Strategic Roadmapping & Execution: Own the strategic roadmap for critical cross-team initiatives, ensuring alignment across the organization and driving successful execution from concept to launch and beyond.
- Market Intelligence & Innovation: Continuously monitor industry trends, emerging technologies (especially AI/ML), and competitor movements to identify disruptive opportunities and potential threats, translating insights into actionable product strategies.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage quantitative and qualitative data, user research, and market analysis to rigorously evaluate opportunities, make informed decisions, and focus our efforts on initiatives with the highest potential impact.
- User-Centric Innovation: Champion user-centered design and development, engaging directly with our global community of developers and customers through workshops, interviews, and experiments to uncover unmet needs and validate solutions.
- Define Success: Establish clear metrics for success, measure the effectiveness of new products and features, and iterate rapidly based on performance and user feedback.
What you’ll need to have:
- 8+ years of product management experience, with a strong emphasis on strategic initiatives, new product development, or innovation within a technical market.
- Proven track record in greenfield environments: Demonstrated ability to build new products, teams, frameworks, or processes from scratch, comfortable with rapid iteration and ambiguity.
- Exceptional Strategic & Analytical Skills: Capacity to identify large-scale opportunities, break down complex problems, articulate a clear product vision, and leverage data for decision-making.
- Deep Product Discovery Expertise: Experience with early-stage testing and discovery methods (e.g., usability testing, A/B tests, user interviewing).
- Technical & UX Acumen: Strong understanding of technical architectures, UX principles, and their implications for product requirements.
- Outstanding Communication & Collaboration: Ability to craft compelling narratives, influence diverse stakeholders, and drive consensus across complex initiatives.
- Growth and Innovative Mindset: Excitement for and/or experience with AI/data-driven solutions and collaborating with data science teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience partnering externally to design, test, and build product integrations for shared user groups.
- Background in developer communities, social platforms, AI/data products, or B2C products.
- A strong understanding of Stack Overflow and the broader developer ecosystem.
Also note:
- We’re a distributed, remote team, and you’ll be part of a work culture that emphasizes online & asynchronous communication with minimal meetings and ceremonies
- We’re generally very flexible on working hours, though we do ask everyone on the team to maintain an overlap with (at least) 10 AM - 1 PM US Eastern time.
If you're a product leader who thrives on strategic challenges and wants to make a tangible impact on the lives of millions of technologists globally, we encourage you to apply. Join us in shaping the next chapter of Stack Overflow!
What you’ll get in return:
- Competitive Base Salary
- Generous paid vacation
- Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
- Equity for all employees at all levels
- Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Home Internet stipend
- Professional allocation for your growth and development
- One-time allowance to assist with your home office setup
- Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, MyAcademy and Overdrive
Stack Overflow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We value diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging and these pillars are at the heart of how we work together here at Stack. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
For individuals based in California, and other locations where required, we will consider employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Stack Overflow
Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.
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