Senior Director, Platform Product Management

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses.

Join us. At PagerDuty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace.

PagerDuty is seeking a Senior Director, Platform Product Management to join our diverse, customer-focused team in leading the industry's transformation to fully automated operations Our vision: a world where AI-augmented software developers build and ship applications 10x faster, and those applications run reliably and autonomously in production. When the unexpected happens, AI agents and automated remediation will resolve most issues—so human teams can focus on innovation, not firefighting.

In this pivotal role, you'll own the foundation of the PagerDuty Operations Cloud as a key technical product leader across several development teams. You'll define our platform strategy, evolve our roadmap and guide execution. The platform team will create leverage for internal application development teams to build new products faster and enable customers and partners to integrate PagerDuty with other tools. You'll work directly with our largest, most sophisticated customers who seek a high level of configurability, scalability and security to manage real-time work across their tool stack. 

The ideal candidate will bridge the world between API-first platform principles and understanding the burning problems of application development teams and external developers (in customer accounts, ISVs, plus tech and distribution partners). You're equally comfortable discussing the merits of an API structure and the business case for integration with a potential platform partner. You can rapidly learn 3rd-party applications and their platform concepts (ServiceNow, Atlassian, Salesforce, etc) and design a platform strategy that is valuable, feasible, usable, and viable. 

Important note: While this role is posted as remote, candidates who are located near one of our hub locations (San Francisco, Atlanta, or Toronto) will be given preference. 

Key Responsibilities

• Guide product strategy, prioritization, and roadmap allocating resources strategically between innovation and sustaining existing products to optimize business outcomes for:
  • Core services: admin, authentication, security, notification, ingestion, app experience
  • Developer Experience: APIs & Integrations - docs & tools, strategic integrations
  • Infrastructure & Internal Tools: Internal admin tools, distribution channel enablement
• Build shared services and components to be used by multiple teams to create leverage and accelerate application feature delivery velocity
• Deliver APIs, developer tools and content to seamlessly onboard PagerDuty apps and professional services teams and customers onto the platform
• Evolve our contextual data platform enabling scalable and secure ingestion and correlation of data across a vast number of sources to be consumed by and contributed to by our apps
• Expand our integration ecosystem through internal development and partnerships across communications platforms, infrastructure, monitoring and observability, ITSM and IDPs and other developer tools
• Partner with infrastructure and security teams to meet our reliability, scalability, and compliance objectives
• Drive project prioritization based on customer value, compliance, developer velocity, cost control, and other business objectives across internal app teams, professional services, customers and 3rd-party partners
• Foster a high-performing, product management team with diversity of experience and perspectives through coaching, empowerment, and accountability
• Build trusted relationships with customers, partners, media and industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, IDC, representing PagerDuty as a thought leader

Basic Qualifications

• 6-10+ years in technical product management for a B2B enterprise SaaS company, preferably with platform experience (APIs, developer tooling, shared services, etc.)
• Experience building, coaching and leading high-performing teams of 5+ PMs
• Strong knowledge of integration architecture, patterns and platforms, understanding of cross-application business processes and flows, and knowledge of API best practices
• Technical knowledge from academic background and/or work experience enabling you to partner with and be respected by experienced engineers
• Ability to experiment with 3rd party APIs, designing APIs based on RESTful principles, and collaborating on integration solution design
• Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams that include engineering, product management, sales, and marketing
• Ability write, speak, and think about complicated and highly technical problems with uncommon lucidity
• Self-motivated user of AI tools for personal productivity and the craft of product with a bias towards scaling team output with technology rather than adding headcount

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or technical field, MBA is a plus
• Practical experience as a software developer is a big plus

The base salary range for this position is 200, ,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.

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Where we work

PagerDuty operates a hybrid work model with offices in 8 major cities: Atlanta, Lisbon, London, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. While we offer flexibility within our established locations, we cannot employ candidates residing in:

Location restrictions:
Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Canada: Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
United States: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming
Candidates must reside in an eligible location, which vary by role.

How we work

Our values guide how we support customers, collaborate with colleagues, develop products, and foster a culture of belonging. They define not just our actions, but what it means to be Dutonian.

People Leaders at PagerDuty are responsible for creating high performance environments that drive accountability. PagerDuty has four key dimensions that define our Leadership Impact: Lead Self, Lead the Team, Lead the Business, and Lead the Future. Each dimension has three associated competencies to give leaders a shared language for guiding their development, career, promotion, and succession planning discussions. Our Manager Expectations serve as a practical guide for managers to understand their responsibilities, prioritize their efforts, and drive engagement and performance.

What we offer

As a global organization, our total rewards approach is competitive with industry standards and aligned with local laws and regulations. Learn more, including country-specific offerings, on our benefits site.

Your package may include:

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package 
• Flexible work arrangements
• Company equity*
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)*
• Retirement or pension plan*
• Generous paid vacation time
• Paid holidays and sick leave
• Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
• Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*
• Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
• Company-wide hack weeks
• Mental wellness programs

*Eligibility may vary by role, region, and tenure

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is an AI-powered platform that empowers business resilience and drives operational efficiency for enterprises. With a generative AI assistant at its core, PagerDuty empowers teams to detect and resolve issues in real time, orchestrate complex workflows, and drive continuous improvement across their digital operations. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses

PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified, a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, a Fortune Best Medium Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology, and a top rated product on TrustRadius and G2. 

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Additional Information

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