Product Manager, Developer Experience

Materialize; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical benefits

Job summary

Materialize, the context engine for AI, seeks a Product Manager for Developer Experience in NYC. You own every surface developers touch—from signup to production, driving the product-led motion and crafting demos rather than docs.

This senior IC role collaborates with engineering, field engineering, and marketing, with a strong emphasis on customer conversations and real-world product usage. The role is based in our NYC office (Astor Place) with a 3-day-in-person expectation weekly, offering

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a product manager or founder, entrepreneurial in spirit.
• Experience shipping developer tools and public-facing developer docs.
• Direct customer-facing experience influencing product decisions.
• Excellent technical communication for architecture discussions.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategy for your product area across engineering, product, and go-to-market.
• Own surfaces developers interact with, driving features from idea to launch.
• Own onboarding funnel end to end, define metrics, instrument and monitor.
• Set developer experience standards for error messaging and UX.
• Partner with Field Engineering and Marketing on demos and storytelling.
• Talk to customers directly for insight and run demos to drive adoption.
• Become the authoritative expert through market research and hands-on usage.

Skills

Developer experience

Technical communication

Customer-facing

Product management

Public-facing docs

Job description

Who We Are:

Materialize is the context engine for AI agents and applications. It lets engineering teams use SQL to transform siloed operational data into up-to-the-second, trustworthy views into any element of their business. Use Materialize to deliver fresh context to AI agents, power data-intensive UIs, and create low-latency, event-driven architectures that drive microservices and core business processes. Materialize is trusted by General Mills, Bilt Rewards, and Crane Worldwide Logistics to solve their most pressing operational data challenges while building a live data foundation for their AI transformation.

Our team spans the US (with a NYC headquarters), Canada, and EMEA.

Investors:

Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Role Overview

As Product Manager for Developer Experience at Materialize, your mission is to make Materialize delightful to use. You own every surface a developer touches from first signup to production. The quality of that path is what drives our product-led sales motion: developers who succeed on their own become the organic leads our go-to-market team builds on.

This is a highly technical individual contributor role with a wide scope and room to grow. You will work directly with engineering, field engineering, and marketing, talk to customers yourself, and build working demos rather than writing documents about them. This is a rare opportunity to help create a new category of software infrastructure.

This role is based in our NYC office (by Astor Place), with an expectation of 3 days per week in person.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategy for your product area and work across engineering, product, and go-to-market to execute on it

• Own every surface developers interact with, which today includes our agent skills, MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, orchestration tools, our console, and our documentation, and drive new features from idea to launch across each of them

• Own the onboarding funnel end to end: define the metrics that show whether it is working, partner with your engineering team to instrument them, monitor them yourself, and let them set your roadmap

• Set the developer experience standards other product managers build against, such as how our error messages should read

• Partner with Field Engineering on demos and launch enablement, and with Marketing on how the developer story reaches the market

• Talk to customers directly for insight, and run demos that drive adoption

• Become the authoritative expert on your product area through market research, customer conversations, and using the product yourself

What We're Looking For

• Taste in developer experience above everything else. You have strong instincts to guide your decisions.

• 3+ years as a product manager or founder, entrepreneurial in spirit, and comfortable working alongside highly technical engineering teams

• Prior experience building developer tools, ideally more than once. You have public-facing developer documentation for a feature you have shipped.

• Direct customer-facing experience, where what you heard changed what you built

• Excellent technical communication skills, including the ability to hold an architecture discussion with a customer's engineers

• A track record of owning outcomes in an unstructured environment, where you set the priorities rather than receive them

• Comfort with AI-native workflows; you would rather build a working demo than write a document

• Nice to have: 2+ years of software engineering or site reliability engineering experience

• We will also consider candidates coming from developer relations or developer experience engineering who can demonstrate real taste, even with less formal product management experience

Location: NYC (hybrid, minimum 3 days/week at our Astor Place HQ)

Salary: $165,000 - $210,000 USD/year plus equity in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. The base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

The salary range provided in this job description should not be considered a guarantee or commitment. The actual compensation offered may vary based on individual qualifications objectively assessed during the application and interview process, including but not limited to the candidate’s:

• Qualifications and relevant work experience

• Educational background and credentials

• Relevant skills and certifications

• Geographic location

• Market demands

Materialize reserves the right to adjust the salary range based on the candidate's specific circumstances and the overall compensation package.

We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.