The Role:

At AuthZed, we’re redefining how modern applications think about access control and are looking to expand our product team with a technical product manager to work alongside our existing Chief Product Officer.

This isn’t just another product role — it’s a chance to shape the future of our platform and drive innovation in a startup environment where your expertise and creativity will leave a lasting impact. You'll be part of a passionate team, solving challenging problems in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and authorization models. Your vision will lead directly to the success of customers using AuthZed’s products worldwide.

We develop a product that demands a team with a deeply technical background even outside of engineering roles. If you don't have opinions on what makes a great API or command line interface, this is not the role for you.

Responsibilities:

• Cross-functional collaboration with customers, engineering, leadership, and the rest of the product org to define the vision and roadmap for our products
• Work alongside the engineering team to set expectations and priorities for development
• Develop pricing and package for our products that resonates with both our customers and our revenue/go-to-market teams
• Enable sales and marketing with collateral for announcements and timelines
• Author public-facing technical and product documentation
• Advocating the product externally to the company via blogging, webinars, demos, speaking at conferences, and more
• Work alongside sales, customer success, and engineering to troubleshoot and unblock customers and opportunities

Requirements:

• B.S. degree in a technical field or equivalent additional experience
• Technical enough to build demos, answer questions, and understand feedback from engineers leveraging SpiceDB
• Experience engineering or managing a database or IAM product
• History and a demonstrated ability to work remotely with a distributed team
• Residing within and/or willing to work core hours in US Eastern Time
• Passion and deep understanding of open source software development
• Curiosity to deeply understand and accurately represent all of our stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience in conducting comprehensive product research
• Comfort presenting publicly and working directly with customers
• Ability to thrive while creating order from chaos in a growing, early-stage start-up