About the role

Northwind Systems is hiring a product manager in Austin, TX. You will own a slice of the product with a small team, real customers and incomplete information. The job is deciding what not to build as much as what to build, and being able to explain both to the people affected.

The US market for this role is deep and well paid, and candidates rightly compare offers carefully. The band below is the real band — we do not hold a number back for whoever negotiates hardest.

What the work actually looks like

Expect customer conversations, writing that sharpens a fuzzy problem into a shippable one, and the metrics work that tells you whether the last thing helped. You will sit with engineering during build rather than reappearing at the demo. The team works a hybrid week out of Austin, TX, usually three days together and the rest wherever you work best.

What we look for

This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will be expected to push back on requirements that do not make sense and to set the technical direction for your part of the product. We are looking for prioritisation under pressure, metrics literacy and the willingness to kill your own idea when the evidence says so. A technical background helps, but clear writing helps more.

Working at Northwind Systems

Core hours are set by the team rather than by the company, and we are deliberate about protecting long stretches of focus time. The range shown is the annual gross salary band for this role.

Responsibilities

Own the roadmap and the trade-offs behind it for your area
Talk to customers regularly and bring what you learn back as written problems
Define success metrics before a launch, not after it
Work with engineering and design daily throughout the build
Communicate decisions and their reasoning across the company

Requirements

Experience owning a product area end to end
Comfortable with data — you can pull your own numbers
Excellent written communication, especially for hard trade-offs
Able to decide with incomplete information and revisit later
Genuine curiosity about the domain and its customers

Skills

Product StrategyRoadmappingSQLUser ResearchAnalyticsStakeholder Management

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision cover from your first day
401(k) with company match
Equity in a company with real revenue
Paid time off with a mandatory two-week minimum

Northwind Systems

San Francisco, CA201-500 peopleDeveloper Tools

Northwind Systems builds the deployment and rollback tooling that sits between a merged pull request and a running service. Around four thousand engineering teams use it, and roughly a third of them have never spoken to a salesperson — they found the CLI, tried it and expensed it.