We are looking for a senior product manager to join the Discourse Graphs team, in a fully remote, fixed-term role of 12 to 18 months. Discourse Graphs is an open-source project that helps research teams write down, link and share their questions, claims and evidence, through plugins for Roam Research and Obsidian backed by a shared database. It is philanthropically funded and built by a small distributed team across North America, Europe and India, together with the labs who pilot the tools. The team works mostly in writing across many time zones, has no managers, and engineers choose their own work from a queue.
Responsibilities
Shape the product strategy with the founders, including where Discourse Graphs should go, what to prioritize, and how to get there; Talk weekly with researchers who use the tools; Turn user feedback into one ordered queue of work together with the designer and developers; Show ideas as working prototypes as often as they are written up; Set priorities based on user need and product vision; Explore open questions such as whether the product stays a set of plugins in Obsidian or needs a standalone app, and how it fits into researchers' existing tools
Requirements
Comfort soliciting and navigating user input in context of documented user flows; A habit of talking with users every week, and of showing ideas as prototypes; A way of working alongside designers and engineers rather than handing work to them; Experience working without a manager: noticing what needs doing, taking it on, and keeping others posted in writing; Drawn to the problem of how research gets documented, connected and built upon; Comfortable synthesizing diverse user needs and feedback into high-level priorities and concrete prototypes; Design instinct centered on usability and meeting users within their existing workflows; Comfortable putting early-stage work in front of people and changing course based on what they see; At ease guiding a team as a team member
Benefits
Flexible approach to working hours and remote working; Astera-sponsored health, vision and dental benefits for employees; Onboarding help from peer product teams; Optional in-person work at Astera in Emeryville, California
Stany Zjednoczone · Emeryville
