At Stack Overflow, we are obsessed with serving developers. Whether we’re helping developers get answers to their questions or find a new job, we build products that make millions of developers’ lives better every day. Like many companies, in order to achieve our goals on our public facing sites, we have to keep other internal stakeholders happy and productive. To achieve this, we turn to our Internal Development team which services the Sales, Operations, Finance, and Marketing teams.

Examples of projects that Internal Systems is responsible for include:

• Maintaining and updating our internal fulfillment systems. (Everything happening on the back end when employers buy Job Listings, Candidate Search etc…)

• Working with Finance to make sure our internal systems are properly integrated with financial and accounting software (we currently use Intacct)

• Own the full suite of custom sales tools that we have built. These tools focus on workflow management, reporting, and help to drive the sales team’s strategic and tactical goals.

Basically, this team makes sure the business and the tools we use to run it are working smoothly. While most of your projects will be internal facing, some will be dependent on and will affect customer facing products. On these projects you’ll be working with other product managers to align goals and shipping timelines.

You’ll have the opportunity to do a lot as a product manager. You can expect during the first year:

• First Month: Get up to speed on our current plans and projects. You’ll spend a lot of time learning about our products, building rapport with the Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Product teams, and building small features.

• Next 3 Months: Start taking on projects of your own from our backlog. You’ll take an idea and work with the developers to turn it into a prototype, talk to the business stakeholders, and pitch your projects to the stakeholders.

• Next 6 months: You can expect to start taking a leadership role within the company, especially within the product and internal development teams. You’ll be involved not just in product development, but in defining long term strategy, improving our processes, and planning the roadmap for the team.