Director of Product Management

About the Role

As a Director of Product Management for Core Product, you'll lead a mid-sized team of Product Managers who are responsible for the key revenue-driving surface areas at Mixpanel.. You'll own strategy for this group while developing the people and practices that help the whole team do their best work. You'll partner closely with product leadership to set direction, raise the bar on product craft, and create leverage across the org.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of Product Managers through coaching, feedback and career development
• Set product strategy and direction across your area using customer conversations, market insight and Mixpanel's own product data
• Raise the bar on product craft across the team, including written communication, prioritization, experimentation and storytelling
• Prioritize ruthlessly across a long list of possible bets, balancing customer impact, business value and team capacity
• Define and track the metrics that show whether what your team shipped actually worked, and course-correct when it didn't
• Align engineering, design, sales, marketing and support around a shared roadmap and set of priorities
• Tell a clear story about what your team has shipped to internal and external audiences, leading with the customer problem and using customer stories to make the value tangible
• Stay close to the market and competitive landscape to inform where Mixpanel should invest next
• Partner with product leadership to shape the product function at Mixpanel: what it's responsible for, how it works with other teams, and how it scales over time
• Help hire and build a high-performing product team

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• 7+ years of product management experience
• Experience managing a team of Product Managers and acting as a player-coach
• A track record of developing, articulating and executing product strategies that drove measurable business outcomes
• Experience coaching PMs and building strong product practices and rituals
• Deep experience doing user research and working with customers to test product hypotheses
• An ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative signals to drive clarity on what to build
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning cross-functional teams
• Experience using AI tools in product management workflows (e.g., competitive research, prototyping)

Bonus Points For

• Experience using Mixpanel as an end customer
• Experience in B2B SaaS, analytics or data products
• Experience writing production-grade software
• Experience designing products using tools like Figma, Sketch or Abstract

Compensation

The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here.

Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future.

Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.

Mixpanel Compensation Range $298,500 - $373,000 USD

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers' needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We're a leader in analytics with over 29,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel's pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics.

Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you'll be helping the world's most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.