Cortex
Build reliable and innovative software at scale
Principal Product Manager
About the role
đź’Ľ Job Summary
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to join our team. As our Principal PM you will be responsible for executing product initiatives, creating specifications and owning pieces of the product. You will work directly with our founders and engineering team to shape the vision strategy and roadmap of our developer portal.
đź’» Responsibilities
- Become a subject matter expert on our product, from features to functionality
- Partner with our co-founders to execute on product direction
- Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and gather customer feedback to inform future product decisions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize and scope product features and enhancements
- Define and track key product metrics and use data-driven insights to drive product decisions and optimizations
✔️Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years as a Product Manager, ideally in a startup environment or developer-focused company
- Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and a willingness to take ownership and drive initiatives forward
- Strong understanding of developer tools, APIs, and developer ecosystem
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making
- Superb written and verbal communication, with the ability to effectively articulate and convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
🌴 Perks & Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100%!)
- Fully covered life insurance
- $400 monthly perks stipend
- $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend
- 401k plan
- Pet Insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote & flexible working hours
- Gender-neutral parental leave
- All-Company Retreats (previously San Diego, Miami, Austin)
About the interview
30min Recruiter Chat
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30min Hiring Manager Chat
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45min Case Study, Presentation
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30min Discussion with Engineering Leadership
30min Discussion with Product Marketing Leadership
30min Discussion with Product Design Leadership
45min Discussion with CoFounders
About Cortex
🧠About Cortex ​​Cortex is an internal developer portal built to accelerate the path to engineering excellence. Companies like Docker, TripAdvisor, and Brex use Cortex to catalog, score, and assign action to improve service quality and velocity, so devs can get back to work that drives the business forward.
📍Location We’re fully remote and welcome candidates from anywhere in the US! We have quarterly offsites where we fly the whole team out to meet in person, build stronger relationships, kick off important projects, and have fun!
🤝 The Team We’re a small but mighty group of ~90 passionate individuals excited about building a product that developers love. We raised $35M in Series B Funding in 2023 led by IVP with Sequoia Capital and previously raised a series A co-led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital.
