Product Manager - Developer Tools

Revel; Los Angeles, San Francisco (CA, CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Equity

Life insurance

Parental leave

Catered lunch

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Revel seeks a Product Manager to own how customers write, test, and ship RevelCode—the domain-specific language for hardware control—and the IDE built for it. You’ll influence language experience, compiler diagnostics, and end-to-end editor usability.

You’ll collaborate with engineers working on runtime and language tooling, while partnering with design and frontend teams. Expect high ownership and visible impact from day one, with equity and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Has built developer tools such as IDEs, code editors, language toolchains, CI systems, or SDKs.
• Has spent years writing and debugging code personally.
• Has conducted customer research and translated findings into strategy.
• Can explain engineering tradeoffs in writing to non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to coordinate engineers to execute a product vision.

Responsibilities

• Own the full workflow for writing, testing, deploying, and monitoring RevelCode for customers.
• Own RevelCode usability end to end: spelling out compiler errors, diagnostics, and editor experience.
• Run customer discovery, including at air-gapped sites, to learn which features are actually used.
• Develop an IDE strategy that differentiates RevelCode from general-purpose editors.

Skills

Developer tools experience

Hands-on coding

Customer research

Technical tradeoffs

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

The Role

We’re hiring a Product Manager to own how customers write, test, and ship the control programs that run their hardware. Those programs are written in RevelCode, our domain‑specific language for hardware control, and you’ll own both the language experience and the IDE we’re building for it. The people writing RevelCode are test and controls engineers, and what they write executes against physical systems. A confusing compiler error or a slow test loop costs more than time here. It raises the chance a mistake reaches hardware.

What You’ll Do

• Own the full workflow for writing, testing, deploying, and monitoring RevelCode: editing and deploying configurations to the runtime, unit testing control logic before it ships, version control, and dashboard generation




• Own RevelCode usability end to end: syntax, snippets, completion, diagnostics, and the compiler errors customers report as the most confusing




• Run discovery with customers and operators, including at air‑gapped sites, to learn which editor features they actually depend on rather than which ones they’d claim to miss




• Develop an IDE strategy that engineering agrees with. It should say what our IDE does better than a general‑purpose editor for control programs, and what customers give up for anything we don’t rebuild

Who You Are

• You’ve built developer tools and you use them critically. You can tell the difference between a feature developers ask for and one they’d actually adopt




• You can read a compiler error from the user’s point of view and say what’s wrong with it




• You’re comfortable working with engineers who operate deep in systems, compilers, or real‑time infrastructure




• You don’t need fully defined requirements to get started




• You care about product quality and user experience, not just delivery

Must-Haves

• 5+ years of product management experience on developer tools: an IDE, code editor, language toolchain, CI system, or SDK




• Hands‑on programming experience; you have spent years writing and debugging code yourself




• Experience conducting customer research and turning it into a clear product strategy




• Ability to work closely with engineers on technical tradeoffs and explain those tradeoffs in writing




• Experience coordinating engineers to execute on a product vision

Plusses

• Experience with industrial automation or test systems, such as PLC programming, LabVIEW, or test stand software




• Experience with language tooling, such as the Language Server Protocol, editor extensions, or compiler diagnostics




• Experience shipping software for on‑premise or air‑gapped environments




• Experience with browser‑based editors such as Monaco or CodeMirror




• Experience in a safety‑critical or regulated domain, such as aerospace, energy, automotive, or medical devices




• A record of shipping a product that replaced an established tool, including the migration plan for existing users

You will work alongside the engineering team building the runtime and language, and collaborate closely with the platform’s design and front‑end engineering teams. You will have direct exposure to the Head of Product and CEO, and will work hands‑on with the engineers who write control programs against real hardware. Our feedback loops are tight. You will see directly how your product decisions land with users doing real, high‑stakes work.

Why Revel

• You’ll own the IDE and the RevelCode authoring experience end to end




• You’ll work on problems that don’t have existing playbooks




• Join a deeply technical team building next‑generation hardware control infrastructure




• High ownership and visibility from day one




• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity

Benefits

• Health insurance — We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage to support you and your family.




• 401(k) — Save for your future with our 401(k) plan.




• Equity — All full‑time employees receive equity, ensuring that you share in Revel's success and growth.




• Life insurance — Company‑paid life insurance gives you and your family peace of mind.




• Parental leave — We offer paid maternity and paternity leave to support new parents.




• Catered lunch — We provide catered lunch five days a week, so you can stay fueled and focused.




• Unlimited PTO — We trust you to take the time you need. Unlimited PTO for all full‑time employees.
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