Director, Software Product Application Development sought by Functional Software, Inc. dba Sentry. in San Francisco, CA.

About Sentry: 

Bad software is everywhere, and we’re tired of it. Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster, so we can get back to enjoying technology.

With more than $67 million in funding and 20,000 customers that believe we’re on to something, we're building performance and error monitoring tools that help companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian spend less time fixing bugs and more time building products. If you like to selfishly build things that make your digital life better, come help us build the next generation of software monitoring tools.

In this role you will:

• Provide product management and direction for software products, with an initial focus on user acquisition, user conversion and user retention for error monitoring products. 
• Build product roadmaps using insights from data analytics by means of Amplitude and Mixpanel, to enhance user experience research and user testing align with customer needs, engineering capabilities and business direction. 
• Work with engineering, user experience design, and data science teams to implement product roadmap features and manage the lifecycle of features. 
• Provide direction to marketing to identify optimizations along the user acquisition funnel and collaborate on implementing integrated solutions. 
• Interact with customers to explain product capabilities, roadmaps and technical architectures. 
• Collaborate with various stakeholders, including engineers, sales, customers, customer support groups, and marketing partners, to establish business requirements for software and deliver the optimum user experience for systems operators, developers, architects and it managers. 
• Create wireframes and requirements documents that illustrate user cases and user experiences. 
• Utilize agile methodologies to manage software development lifecycles. 
• Present progress reports to both internal and external stakeholders. 
• Direct daily operations of departments, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines. 
• Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems. 
• Apply knowledge of software monitoring tools like AppDynamics as needed to understand the existing product and the market landscape. 
• Utilize Objective-C, Android, C/C++ and Java/J2EE to write test versions of software applications to test product updates and competitive software products. 
• Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field 
• Seven (7) years of progressive Software Development, Product Management, or related experience including three (3) years of: providing product management and direction for software products; developing and managing product roadmaps that align with engineering capabilities, business direction, and customer needs; collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver the optimum user experience for system operators, developers, architects and IT managers; testing new releases, troubleshooting relevant bugs, and resolving issues; launching new products and growing existing products; researching competitive products and identifying market opportunities; training global sales teams on new features and technical instrumentation; creating wireframes and requirements documents that illustrate use cases and user experiences; and utilizing technologies such as C/C++, Java, Objective-C, Android, REST APIs, SQL, Jira, Confluence, AWS, Xcode and Android Studio.

Apply online at https://sentry.io/careers or Send resume to: Vice President of People, Sentry, 132 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco CA 94107 or [email protected].

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Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, 75% company-paid for dependents
• Monthly commuter subsidy
• 401k program
• Learning & Development stipend
• Charitable matching program
• Generous parental leave policy
• Flexible working schedule and vacation policy, work from home policy, and real work/life balance
• Friday catered lunches
• Company events (Hack Weeks, All Hands, quarterly social events) and friends and family events
• Relocation assistance

Sentry values diversity and inclusivity in our company and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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