Senior Outbound Product Manager

XYZ Venture Capital; United States; On-site; USD 185,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Flexible work schedule

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Flexible Time Off

Parental Leave

Monthly, quarterly, and annual social/

Monthly internet reimbursement

Job summary

Harness seeks a leader to own the Internal Developer Portal (IDP) growth within the Strategic Products Growth team. You will shape the market view of developer portals in an AI/agentic world and drive a strategic product-led transformation.

You will demo to customers, support technical discovery, and create thought leadership content. This role requires a blend of technical credibility and strong communication across diverse contexts.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to run demos and tailor to customer contexts.
• Technical sales-engineering background to earn customer trust.
• Experience with developer experience and AI's impact on DevX.
• Willing to travel to support field functions.

Responsibilities

• Own the growth of the Internal Developer Portal (IDP) within Harness's Strategic Products Growth team.
• Act as product specialist during demos and technical sales for inbound interest and cross-sell.
• Deliver technically accurate, value-driven product demonstrations on demand, tailored to customer contexts.
• Support prospect technical discovery including RFP questions and technical Q&A.
• Develop and publish an opinionated point of view on AI's impact on developer experience.
• Build go-to-market assets and sales enablement materials for the IDP offering.

Skills

Demo proficiency

Technical sales background

AI/DevX expertise

Travel flexibility

Job description

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.

Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.

With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

Own the growth of the Internal Developer Portal (IDP) within Harness's Strategic Products Growth team — a product with real revenue and real users, historically sold via a sales-led motion but now shifting towards a product-led growth motion.. You're the person who owns this strategic transformation while shaping how the market thinks about developer portals in the age of AI and agentic workflows.

About The Role

• Carry a new-ARR target for the IDP product line (a mix of cross-sell and product-led revenue)
• Act as the product specialist the sales team pulls in: run the demo and the technical sale on inbound interest and on cross-sell into existing customers. Account teams keep the relationship and the commercials; the product depth is yours
• Deliver technically accurate, value-driven product demonstrations on demand, tailored to diverse customer contexts — a core expectation from day one
• Support prospect technical discovery including RFP product-related questions and technical Q&A
• Drive discovery through content and thought leadership, particularly around AI's impact on developer experience: is the traditional internal developer portal the right shape for an agentic world?
• Develop and publish an opinionated point of view
• Develop 3-5 net new marketing or content assets (technical or thought leadership focused) within your first 90 days, initially focused on a single capability area
• Build the go-to-market kit: content, collateral, business-value assessments, demo environments, and sales enablement
• Feed the most common deal-blocking gaps back to engineering
• Grow IDP toward a self-sustaining motion, whether product-led or sales-attached

What sits outside the role: self-serve billing and activation infrastructure, net-new logo prospecting, in-account adoption and renewals, and paid demand generation.

About You

• Demo-native and comfortable carrying a number; equally at home in a product spec and on a customer call
• A technical, sales-engineering-like background — technical enough to earn a customer's trust and win a room — paired with strong educator and communicator instincts
• Experience with developer experience and developer platforms, with demonstrated thought leadership on AI's impact on DevX; you hold opinionated views backed by experience
• A growth PM or DevRel background is a plus, though not strictly required
• Comfortable operating between senior and staff level, with travel flexibility to support field functions

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Flexible work schedule
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $185,000 and $235,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

Harness in the news:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
• How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal
• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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