About Neo4j:
Neo4j is the world’s leading graph data platform. 75% of the world’s Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j for their mission critical applications. We’re building the technology that enables connected data to solve the world’s most pressing problems, such as helping to cure cancers, address diabetes, and get humans to Mars. We're proud to fight fraud, crush pandemics, and even help journalists uncover the truth. Find out more at neo4j.com and follow us at @Neo4j.
Our Vision:
At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.
As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.
About Workspace:
Neo4j Workspace is the framework that brings together our user tools (Bloom, Browser, and Data Importer) into a single experience. It has a critical role in users' discovery, learning, and productivity.
As Product Manager for Neo4j Workspace, you will work with a world-class team to meet the needs of developers, data scientists, data analysts and other data practitioners. You will have the opportunity to evolve a product that users love, in a growing space that is rapidly becoming one of the most impactful categories in database & data science. This is an exciting and impactful role, and you will work with an amazing globally diverse team spread between Silicon Valley (San Mateo), London, and Malmö Sweden.
The Role:
This role includes classic PM functions, focused around key areas & initiatives inside of the product, with a strong focus on user experience and user interface design. You will have a very close working relationship with Engineering, Field Engineering (pre-sales), Growth Teams, Product Marketing, and technology partners. In a true startup fashion, expect to work very closely with your Neo4j colleagues across the company on a day-to-day basis, bringing focus & clarity inside the whirlwind crescendo of chasm crossing. You will report into the Product Management organisation.
Location:
Based in the UK with availability for 10-15% Travel.
What You'll Do:
- Gathering information from the user & partner community, and various other sources, as input into requirements for the areas of the product for which you are responsible
- Validating those requirements with the market, and working with Engineering & Product Marketing to ensure the features and benefits are well articulated & understood
- Quantitative analysis of adoption & usage metrics, to support PM insight & prioritisation
- Collaborating with PMs of other user facing tools on product vision, roadmap creation and execution to deliver new functionality and capabilities through Neo4j Workspace
- Helping Engineering to understand not only the user requirements, but the business reason underlying the requirements and their relative priority
- Supporting the Field Engineering team with questions about roadmap, RFP responses, and deep product understanding
- Working closely with Docs team to ensure new & existing features are communicated clearly and in the right way throughout the manual, user guides, tips, messages, and other touch points
- Supporting the work of our teams focused on product-led growth, acting as a bridge between business units
- Becoming a trusted advisor with respect to the product, in particular for the areas of the product with which users will interact directly, to support product strategy, product marketing, technology partnerships, developer relations, and sales & pre-sales.
To embark on this mission, you will have:
- 10+ years of professional experience
- 3+ years as a Product Manager for products that use modern user interfaces
- Experience with user journeys, being able to switch between the macro and micro lens to inform product design
- Experience with full-stack applications, including familiarity with front-end app dev frameworks (e.g. React) and backend API frameworks (e.g. GraphQL or REST based)
- Knowledge of key tenets of product-led growth
- Strong background showing you know how to build products that deliver a cohesive learning experience
- Experience of cloud-based (SaaS) and self-deployed products
- A refined sense of end user empathy built from quantitative and qualitative understandings of user needs
- Passion for understanding the root of a problem, and enthusiasm at devising & testing creative solutions
- Great communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to drive a roadmap with cross-product dependencies
- A desire to cultivate trust and understanding with engineers, customers, partners, and all of the other groups with whom you will be working
- Hands-on experience working with databases & data integration
- Strong preference will be given to candidates with graph database experience, especially with Neo4j
Why Join Neo4j?
Neo4j is one of the 20 most popular databases in the world, and the leader in the rapidly emerging Graph Database category. We’re building the technology that enables connected data to solve the world’s most pressing problems. You’ll work on unique engineering projects that challenge what’s possible.
We have customers in every industry across the globe, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics.
We pride ourselves on being a welcoming team. Most of us would agree that one of the best parts of working at Neo4j is the people we get to work with.
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t 100% fit the qualifications above. Why? Because we are committed to building an environment that fosters belonging, which means valuing intellectually honest discussions and being receptive to new ideas and perspectives.
One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience.
Neo4j Values:
Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:
(we)-[:VALUE]->(relationships)
(we)-[:FOCUS_ON]->(:UserSuccess)
(we)-[:THRIVE_IN]->(:Culture {type: [‘Open’, ‘Inclusive’})
(we)-[:ASSUME]->(:Intent {direction:’Positive’})
(we)-[:WELCOME]->(:Discussions {nature: ‘IntellectuallyHonest’})
(we)-[:DELIVER_ON]->(ourCommitments)
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More information at www.neo4j.com.