About this role
To embark on this mission, you will have: • 10+ years of professional experience. 3+ years as a Product Manager. Consulting background is a nice plus but not necessary. • Experience with user journeys, developing product specifications, end-to-end user experience design • A refined sense of end user empathy • Passion for understanding the root of a problem, and enthusiasm at devising & testing creative solutions to the problem • Great communication skills • 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 • Visual design experience a significant plus • Strong preference will be given to candidates with graph database experience, especially with Neo4j As the market & technology leader in graph databases, one of the fastest-growing categories in data, Neo is rapidly evolving of the category which it pioneered. As graph databases move increasingly into the mainstream, we are growing our PM team to pave the way for this evolutionary transition. As Product Manager – Head of Product Design for Neo4j, you will work with a world-class team to bring graph databases to the masses. This is an exciting and impactful role, based in Malmö Sweden, will allow you to work with an amazing global team with offices around the globe. You will have the opportunity to evolve product that users love, in a growing space that is rapidly becoming one of the most impactful categories in data & database. Background: To embark on this mission, you will have: • 10+ years of professional experience. 3+ years as a Product Manager. Consulting background is a nice plus but not necessary. • Experience with user journeys, developing product specifications, end-to-end user experience design • A refined sense of end user empathy • Passion for understanding the root of a problem, and enthusiasm at devising & testing creative solutions to the problem • Great communication skills • 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 • Visual design experience a significant plus • Strong preference will be given to candidates with graph database experience, especially with Neo4j Responsibilities: 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), Product Marketing, and technology partners. In a true startup fashion, expect to work very closely with your Neo 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 organization, with responsibilities that include: • 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 & prioritization. • 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. • 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. In today’s connected world, understanding the relationships between data is as important as knowing the data itself. Neo has paved the way in making real-time relationship-based insights available in a way previously not possible, enabling a new generation of applications centered on data relationships. As the market & technology leader in graph databases, one of the fastest-growing categories in data, Neo is rapidly evolving of the category which it pioneered. As graph databases move increasingly into the mainstream, we are growing our PM team to pave the way for this evolutionary transition.