Homeoffice Product Manager bei Zed

Zed is a next-generation code editor that's engineered from scratch in Rust to be fast, elegant, and collaborative.

In this role, you’ll work closely with the highly technical team of Rust Engineers and designers to curate the roadmap and structure priorities in delivering meaningful results, while building on the systems that already make Zed effective.

Key Responsibilities

- Work with the team to define and drive the product strategy for Zed using data, user feedback and GitHub issues.

- Pair with engineering to evaluate technical tradeoffs, manage capacity, and align roadmaps with realistic timelines.

- Prioritize and sequence work to maximize developer impact, balancing long-term vision with near-term execution.

- Establish frameworks for scoping, planning, and projects, ensuring efficiency and focus across the team.

- Gather feedback from users and internal stakeholders to refine priorities and inform product direction.

- Spend time in Hex and Amplitude to inform our priorities and focus on growing the number of deeply engaged Zed users.

- Provide clear communication and documentation that aligns engineering, design, and leadership on objectives and outcomes.

Requirements

- 5+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on highly technical products (developer tools, AI, infrastructure, or cloud systems).

- Strong technical fluency and comfortable engaging deeply with engineers on distributed systems, developer workflows, and API design.

- Proven ability to drive prioritization, scope planning, and capacity alignment within engineering-forward teams.

- Experience with balancing quantitative and qualitative data to drive roadmaps and priorities.

- Track record of shipping complex technical products that balance speed, stability, and impact.

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bring clarity and focus to complex technical discussions.

- Self-motivated with strong execution discipline, able to drive projects to completion in a fast-moving environment.

- We use Zed for tracking and communication, so you must be comfortable with working on prioritization in markdown and Github issues.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with developer tools, open source communities, or AI Applications.

- Background in distributed systems or cloud services.

- Prior experience working with small, highly technical teams.

- Zed user or other code editors and IDEs

- Familiarity with Rust, or strong interest in Rust and systems programming.

- Be comfortable outside of the product management tools you have already used.