Senior Product Manager

About Directus

Directus is the collaborative backend for applications and AI. We provide an open data platform that enables teams to model, manage, and deliver trusted data across projects and systems — with full governance, flexibility, and developer control.

Thousands of organizations use Directus to power digital products, internal tools, and AI-ready data workflows.

Role Overview

We're hiring a Product Manager to own and improve how developers and content teams discover, understand, and adopt Directus.

This is a versatile role with a clear through-line: great developer experience. You'll pick up product work wherever the need is greatest - owning our documentation platforms, shaping our APIs and SDKs, improving the Studio experience and driving better onboarding. We're a small team, so this comes with broad ownership and lean responsibilities - less process, more getting things done.

The role sits in Product, close to the engineering teams shipping features and close to the Directus community, whose questions and workarounds are often the clearest signal of where the product falls short.

What You'll Do

Own Product Experience Across Key Areas

• Drive improvements across onboarding, Cloud dashboard, licensing and account management tooling, and the Studio experience

• Identify friction points in how customers adopt, manage, and scale their use of Directus

• Collaborate with engineering and design to spec, prioritize, and ship improvements across these surfaces

Contribute to Platform and API Experience

• Work with engineering leads on projects where developer experience is core: deployment flows, authentication, APIs, SDKs, and CLIs

• Help translate product needs into clear technical plans, and iterate based on real user feedback

• Be the point of contact for documentation platforms - ensuring docs standards are maintained, content is high-quality and features ship with adequate documentation

Be the Voice of the Community and Customer

• Surface pain points from Discourse, GitHub issues, Discord, and customer conversations back into Product

• Own the product feedback process  - triaging, scoring, and using it to inform prioritization

• Engage directly with customers and community; translate that feedback into clear, actionable items

Support Planning and Execution

• Help define what's in and out of upcoming engineering cycles

• Default to writing things down: proposals, decisions, and findings documented

What We're Looking For

• Experience in a product management, developer relations, or sales engineering role  - ideally at a developer tools, data platform, or infrastructure company

• Comfortable working as a product-minded owner: defining problems, setting priorities, driving outcomes

• Technical enough to collaborate deeply with engineers, sanity-check examples, and understand API and SDK design tradeoffs

• Strong written communicator - defaults to writing things down

• Familiar with the developer experience of building on top of APIs, databases, or infrastructure-adjacent products

• Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity in a small, high-ownership team

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with databases, APIs, or deployment and infrastructure tooling

• Familiarity with open-source communities and how to engage and support them effectively

• Experience with AI-assisted content workflows (generation, maintenance, keeping docs in sync)

• Prior involvement in information architecture, developer onboarding, or SDK/CLI design

What We Offer

• High-impact work on a widely used, developer-focused product used by teams running in production

• A remote-first environment with flexible working hours

• A small, high-ownership team where you can influence product direction from day one

• Competitive compensation and equity participation

Application Process

Our process is straightforward and focused on real signal:

• [30 min] Intro + role and team context + initial fit conversation

• [60 min] Case Study with hiring manager and cross-functional leads

• [~30 min] Final conversation to cover open questions and ensure mutual fit

Company Overview

Monospace Inc is a venture-backed Data Platform with a passionate community and millions of users worldwide. Modern and completely modular, our core product is comprised of a connection toolkit for developers, and an intuitive no-code App for non-technical users. With the ability to be installed next to any new or existing SQL database, Monospace instantly provides end-to-end data democratization.

Monospace provides the data foundation for internal data tools and omnichannel digital experiences at some of the world's most forward-looking companies, including AT&T, Bose, HTC, Prada, TripAdvisor, and the United States Navy.