Director of Product

LocalStack; London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Job description

For this role we are open to candidates based in the EU, UK and East Coast US.

We are a fast-growing Series A startup building cutting-edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev & test feedback loops. We’ve closed our last $25mil round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV and Heavybit.

At its core, LocalStack provides a high-fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform. Imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker!

Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.

LocalStack has a large and active open-source community (57k+ stars on GitHub) with over 100k active users worldwide and 200M+ downloads to date. Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies.

We are sustainably growing our globally distributed team across sectors. LocalStack is headquartered in Zurich/Switzerland, with a main engineering office in Vienna/Austria and remote team members from the US, FR, UK, CA, ES, and many more countries.

This is the right opportunity for a person with 2-4 years in a product leadership role in a product-first organization, experience building and leading a portfolio of products, experience with highly technical products with a global user base, and maturing product thinking across the organization while leading product, design, and partnerships.

This is the first Product leadership hire in the team with product, design, and partnerships reporting into the leader.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the organic growth (product pricing, partnerships) for a suite of products - AWS (established), Snowflake (early stages), Azure (early stages).
• Introduce, position, and grow new products in the cloud platform and auxiliary devX tooling space (ex: events studio, etc).
• Create, own, and adjust the product roadmap as LocalStack grows.
• Create target personas, customer segments, and market approaches for each.
• Create feedback loops, implement user tracking, generate actionable insights, implement NPS, etc.
• Analyze and optimize the SaaS conversion funnel.
• Identify and lead the biggest partnerships for the product.
• Work collaboratively with engineering, marketing, devrel, and GTM teams to grow product usage.
• Reduce the number of churning users while drawing insights on why users are churning and addressing the cause where possible.

Specialist Skills and Experience

• Experience establishing core processes, methodologies, and priorities for a multi-product suite.
• Deep understanding of the user base, able to gather feedback and respond to users churning.
• Strong tech skills in understanding the cloud space (serverless, IaC, testing, CI pipeline).
• Greenfield product experience.
• Authentic, inspirational leadership style.
• Global user base experience.
• Preferred: community, open source experience (freemium to premium, needs to understand dynamics). Understands the power of community.

Benefits

• Fully remote.
• Competitive salary.
• Performance bonus.
• Competitive share options.
• Annual company retreat.
• The best equipment for your role.
• Learning budget.

We'd love to hear from you! Join us in shaping the future of cloud development at LocalStack.

To apply, follow the LI application process or apply on our career page. Make sure to include a short motivation outlining why you are the perfect candidate for this role. Feel free to reach out to Alexandra Paiser if you have any questions.

If your profile looks like a good match, Alexandra Paiser will be in touch to organize further steps within 2 weeks.

Please note, due to a high volume of candidates, we cannot offer personalized feedback to each candidate.