Cerby
Director of Product, Platform
Remote (United States) · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago
API DevelopmentProduct StrategySalesCadenceCommunicationPublic Speaking
About the role
- AI has changed the economics of engineering inside our company: engineers are spending less time on routine development and more time making lower-level product decisions.
- That shift has freed up Product to do higher-leverage work, which is shaping strategy, staying close to customers, and ensuring our launches actually land.
- We are limited by the quality and clarity of our ideas.
Responsibilities
- Drive prioritization decisions that reflect both near-term customer needs and long-term platform leverage.
- Identify and articulate the platform capabilities that create compounding value for Cerby, whether in stickiness, integrations, developer adoption, or enterprise land-and-expand motions.
- Build relationships with the people who evaluate and implement Cerby at a technical level, not just the economic buyers.
- Partner with Sales and Marketing to ensure the platform narrative lands credibly with technical audiences in the field.
- Working With Engineering Partner closely with engineering on platform architecture decisions, bringing a product lens to technical tradeoffs around extensibility, backward compatibility, developer ergonomics, and scalability.
- able to go deep on an API design decision in the morning and explain the platform story to a sales team in the afternoon.
- Platform Launches and Enablement Own how Cerby launches platform capabilities, including API updates, SDK releases, and changes to integration infrastructure.
- Build feedback loops between platform usage data, developer conversations, and roadmap decisions.
- This is a discipline Cerby is building, and you will help establish it on the platform side.
- This means your developer platform not only existed, but had documentation, ergonomics, and ease of getting started that made developers want to build on it.
Requirements
- How You Think and Work You can switch registers.
- You are as comfortable in a deep technical architecture discussion as you are presenting a platform strategy narrative to a non-technical executive.
- You are comfortable being a lone voice of product conviction in a highly technical environment.
- You are a high-leverage IC who measures your impact by outcomes, not visibility.
- You have a regular cadence of conversations with technical buyers, integration engineers, and security architects at customer and prospect accounts.
- You are trusted and recognized in those conversations.
- You have done the engineering work yourself, and your credibility in this role rests on that foundation.
- You are energized by the idea of making a disproportionate impact without a team under you.
- You have done it before and you prefer it.
Benefits
- Product Data and Feedback Loops Define and track the metrics that matter for platform health: API adoption, SDK usage, error rates, integration depth, and developer retention.
Company info
- engineers are spending less time on routine development and more time making lower-level product decisions.
- The consequence of that change is that we are no longer limited by what we can build.
- We need better strategic inputs, more rigorous prioritization, and a platform story that is as compelling to developers and enterprise buyers as our user interface is to end users.
- The Director of Product, Platform owns everything that has no graphical user interface.
- That includes our public APIs, our CHAOS SDK, and the broader platform infrastructure that third-party developers and enterprise customers build on top of.
- There are no direct reports in this role.
- Instead, you are a high-leverage individual contributor who shapes strategy, drives decisions, and creates clarity in a part of the product that is deeply technical and increasingly central to Cerby's enterprise value proposition.
- This role is for someone who has been an engineer or engineering manager on platform-centric products and now wants to apply that technical fluency to strategic product work.
- You will report directly to the CEO and collaborate closely with our CTO and our Chief Architect.
- What You Will Own Platform Strategy and Prioritization Own Cerby's platform product strategy: the API surface, the CHAOS SDK, integration architecture, and the broader story we tell to enterprise buyers and developer audiences.
- In a world where we can build faster than ever, making the right sequencing decisions is the highest-value contribution you can make.
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