
Staff Product Manager
Overview
Join Checkly as a Staff Product Manager and empower developers to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem!
Job Description
Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability. Our tech stack is Vue.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, ClickHouse and AWS. We ship to prod all day, every day. We practice Agile (not scrum) and take pride in good documentation and good looking products. We’re a remote-first startup that keeps things simple—low on meetings, high on productivity, and always shipping.
Responsibilities
- - Learn all about the monitoring and observability market, figuring out its strengths and weaknesses to take our products to a new level.
- - Use your empathy for the daily challenges of DevOps, SRE and (Platform) Engineering teams to create solutions to their problems.
- - Understand the dynamics of the testing, monitoring, and observability market, and use that knowledge to bring Checkly and our growing customer base to the next level.
- - Focus on making an impact while also being mindful about speed, efficiency and cost.
- - Lead initiatives that span multiple teams, aligning stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Design, Sales and Marketing.
- - Represent Checkly externally in key customer relationships and developer communities.
Required Skills
- - Experience as a Product Manager, working on a technical product, preferably solving problems for engineers.
- - Prior experience in the monitoring or observability space is a very big plus.
- - You ''get'' developers — our main customers — through your engineering background.
- - Self-motivated, highly driven, and eager to try to do things differently.
- - You value autonomy, and believe in empowered teams to solve customer problems in a remote work environment
- - Very hands-on, you use your coding abilities and AI tooling to understand customers and market dynamics, create mock designs, design system components, assessing technical viability, and writing micro-copy
- - You have shipped multiple product features to developers, from concept to delivery.
- - You can ship ''big bang'', but also manage early access, beta and staged rollouts using feature flags.
- - You reduce risk by testing the market, and trying things out with a small groups of users.
- - Proven ability to work cross-functionally, collaborate, influence and work as part of a team
- - Excellent spoken and written English skills are a must.
- - Ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment, while you also enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others.
Benefits
- - Transparent salary because your salary shouldn''t be dictated by how good a negotiator you are.
- - Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first (low meeting, high productivity) and transparent culture
- - Use the latest technologies and innovate with us: we are THE Monitoring-as-Code company
- - Become part of a fast-growing, international, and remote team where your work matters—your impact won’t get lost in layers of bureaucracy.
- - Stock options
- - 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays
- - Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
- - $1,500 learning, visiting and wellness budget
- - Co-working budget or home office setup
- - Bi-annual company retreats
- - Employee & contractor options
About the company
We believe that apps can be built and shipped more reliably from dev to production and beyond, and our vision is to create the best monitoring as code (MaC) platform for developers using modern stacks.
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