Senior Engineering Manager

AI Is How We Work

Productboard is an AI-first company. Not as a tagline — but as a daily reality.

Everyone here, from Design and Product to Engineering and our CEO, uses AI every day to prototype, explore ideas, and ship faster. We are investing deeply to make AI part of our foundation.

What That Looks Like

• Access from day one. Every engineer and leader gets the best tools available — Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and more.
• AI Champions across teams. Dedicated experts embedded in teams to pair, unblock, and help you move faster with AI agents.
• A codebase built for agents. Structured AGENTS.md files, curated skills, and clean patterns so AI agents can work effectively alongside engineers.
• Serious investment in DevX. We continuously improve our developer tooling so testing, prototyping, and working with agents is seamless.
• Dedicated AI days. Every six weeks, Engineering, Product, and Design teams get focused time to ship real features using AI tools and push boundaries.
  
  

AI isn’t something we experiment with occasionally. It’s how we build.

When we started in 2014, our focus was on product managers in smaller teams who lacked a great product management tool. Today, we are the leading product management platform, helping larger companies with thousands of employees, each with different needs and personas.

To meet the growing demands and scale of the enterprise market, we're adapting our product to improve our customers' overall experience — from performance and functionality to permissions and governance.

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Engineering Manager with enterprise SaaS expertise to lead our Roadmaps team.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and grow a team of engineers in their daily tasks, personal development, and long-term career growth.
• Provide deep technical expertise and lead the technical strategy of your area of ownership.
• Shape processes and technical direction across the engineering department by contributing to efforts that cut across teams and projects.
• Improve the quality of shared engineering processes such as hiring, planning, and operations.
• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design, as well as with Customer Support, Customer Success, Security, Data, Product Marketing, and other departments.
  
  

Given the highly collaborative nature of the team's work across all EPD teams, strong interpersonal skills are crucial.

Supported by prominent Silicon Valley investors, Productboard benefits from substantial funding, networks, mentors, and markets. Our dynamic team environment prioritizes innovation, encouraging rapid iteration and decision-making that empowers your contributions.

On a typical day, you will …

• Work with your Product Manager and Designer to align on the most valuable work to be done
• Provide clarity to your team about their objectives, aligned with the company goals
• Provide clarity in their execution model, optimizing for your team to be in the flow, getting rid of blockers, identifying risks in advance
• Collaborate with other Engineering managers to optimize inter-dependencies
• Work closely with senior ICs and other EMs on the technical strategy, ensuring your team can contribute to the greater good of the organization
• Identify and drive technical initiative that contribute to ProductBoard Technical objectives.

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• Proactively manage technical debt. Creating some when needed, paying it back as a flow
• Hire, onboard, mentor and coach your engineers, guiding their career development.
• Collaborate with other leader to optimize our capacity to execute. By optimizing processes in the most leaner way possible.
• Build connection with other part of the business
• Make the success of your team visible and create a sense of pride for the achievement done
• Actively drive the hiring process, with support from TA to ensure your team is well-staffed.
  
  

About You

• 4+ years in team management, able to grow and improve both the individuals and the team as a whole
• A strong technical background. Our managers not only focus on people, but they care and drive the technical roadmap of their respective domain.
• A proven track record of execution, driving initiatives in cross-functional context
• You value direct feedback, both given and received. We embrace the approach of Radical Candor. Always with good intent, always constructive.
• Great communication is expected. Fluency in English—our team consists of 14+ nationalities in different Geo.
• An experience building complex B2B SaaS admin experiences is a plus
  
  

Tech stack

We Work With The Following Frameworks, Tools, And Languages

Frontend: TypeScript, React.js

Backend: JVM/Kotlin, TypeScript/Node.js, Ruby, Kafka

Storage: Postgres, Elastic, Redis

Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Our Benefits Include

(specifics may vary by country)

💰 Stock options

💻 MacBook + 34″ monitor

📚 Budget for online courses, books, and conferences

🏝 5 weeks of vacation + sick days

❤️ 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart

🍲 Free snacks, drinks, and yummy catered lunches every day

💚 Soulmio mental health program

🏋 MultiSport card to access sports facilities

🍹 Team events, such as happy hours, off-sites, and retreats

⏱ Flexible working hours and home office

🧒🏻 Parental benefits

🎓 Language lessons and Hone educational platform

🍀 Mental Wellness Program to support your well-being and self-caree

🥕 Carrot Fertility Program

Relocation Opportunities

If joining us means making a move, we’re here to help make that transition easier.

We currently support relocation for EU citizens who are relocating to Prague to work for Productboard's Product Engineering organization

Relocation Support

We offer a one-time relocation bonus ranging from $6,000 to $13,000 USD, depending on your personal situation, whether you’re moving on your own or with a partner or family.

This bonus is intended to help offset moving expenses and support your transition into your new city. While it may not cover every cost, it provides meaningful financial support as you get settled.

If you’re thinking about relocating and want to explore what this could look like for you, we’d be happy to have that conversation.

About Productboard

At Productboard, we’re on a mission to help product teams build exceptional products with clarity and confidence. As the leading intelligent product management platform, we empower over 4,000 companies, including Salesforce, SAP, Autodesk, and Kroger, to understand what customers need, prioritize what to build next, and align everyone around a shared roadmap.

Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Prague and Brno, Czechia, we’re backed by some of the world’s most respected investors, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global, and Dragoneer.

We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by BuiltIn and Comparably, and to count ourselves among the world’s leading unicorn companies. Well-funded and financially disciplined, we have the stability and runway to build boldly for the long term.

Over the past few years, we’ve rearchitected our platform from the ground up to serve enterprise scale and set the foundation for the next era of product management. Now we’re entering an exciting new phase with Productboard Spark, our AI-first, agentic experience that transforms how product teams work. Spark is a true collaborator that deeply understands your product context, company strategy, and customer needs, helping teams move faster and make smarter, more confident decisions.

Join us as we build the future of product management.

About Our Culture

Imagine working in a place where everything matters — most importantly, you. At Productboard, values aren’t just something we like to talk about, they’re something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where:

• People feel empowered, supported, and included
• Trust and transparency are built into the way we work
• Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day
  
  

Forming our company values was a group effort, with every employee allowed to contribute. From profit-sharing initiatives, like stock options, to open calendars and communication, we don’t waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, successes, and failures.

Join colleagues who are passionate about what they do. Team members who are invested in their work environment, and the future of Productboard. Help shape our company, culture, and product!

Check out our LinkedIn Life page, or listen to our People of Productboard podcast for a real feel of what life is like at Productboard.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. We aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based on gender identity, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other bias covered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.