Product Manager, Core Data

ABOUT RETOOL

Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software: Gartner estimates that up to 50% of all code is written for internal use. This is the operational software for refunding orders, underwriting loans, onboarding employees, analyzing transactions, and providing customer support. But most companies don’t have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows. 

At Retool, we’re on a mission to bring good software to everyone. We’re building a new type of development platform that combines the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI, making it dramatically faster to build internal tools. We believe that the future of software development lies in abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks developers waste time on, while creating reusable components that act as a force multiplier for future developers and projects. The result is not just productivity, but good software by default. And that’s a mission worth striving for. 

Today, our customers span from small startups building their first operational tools to Fortune 500 companies building mission-critical apps for thousands of users across their business. Interested in joining us? Let us know! 

Tens of thousands of customers rely on Retool to run their businesses, and our Product team helps shape the vision, create the roadmap, and build the products that make our customers successful. 

Your days will include collaborating with design and engineering counterparts to build the right thing at the right time, working closely with go-to-market teams to get our products into the hands of our customers, and working with company leadership to communicate the direction and vision for your product area to the rest of the organization. At Retool, Product Managers are highly flexible, technically-minded, and known for their readiness to pivot or tailor their efforts when necessary to deliver great products to our customers. 

As PM for the Core Data team, you’ll help drive Retool’s overall strategy for how users connect to and interact with their data—from choosing which integrations we invest in, to launching out-of-the-box data storage services, to bringing the ease of visual development into the realm of querying and manipulating data. Every customer of Retool is a customer of the Core Data team—Retool’s low-code products rely on building interfaces and automations that can read and write to a customers’ connected data sources. Further, Retool is one of the only platforms that a customer will connect to all of their most critical data sources; the quality and depth of Retool’s integrations are crucial for Retool’s success. 

You’ll help the team build strategic frameworks to decide which integrations to invest in more heavily. You’ll lead Retool’s many built-in resources like Retool Database and Storage—complete products in their own rights—and set their roadmaps to help our customers build sophisticated apps more easily.

For example, today we’re thinking about:

• What types of resources should we prioritize building integrations for? How do we align our integration strategy to our broader product strategy?
• Should we make our integration platform extensible? Should we work with partners to drive more and higher-quality integrations?
• How can we make it easier for developers to work with data in a more abstract way? Should we build a unified ontology that can span across multiple different data sources?

You’ll be working with almost all Retools but will most often be partnering with engineers, designers, data scientists, and go-to-market teams to deliver products to our customers.

• Set the direction of Retool’s product
• Understand our customers by talking with them, a lot, interacting with go-to-market teams, and digging into product data; and communicate what you find to the rest of the organization
• Collaborate with go-to-market to launch new features and products to our customers
• Identify new opportunities and product areas for Retool to pursue
• Measure, analyze and report to the organization on the success of our products
• Help build the organizational foundations for a high-performing and growing Product team at Retool

THE SKILLSET YOU'll BRING:

• You have 4+ years of product management experience at a fast-growing technology company
• You’ve shipped large-scope projects end-to-end
• You know how you work best with engineering and design counterparts
• You’ve worked closely with go-to-market teams to arm them to sell and to gather product feedback
• You’ve worked closely and directly with customers, and have a knack for turning customer problems into the right product solutions
• You have a strong ownership mindset to do whatever is needed to deliver the best product to our customers
• You nurture a deep curiosity and knowledge of your customers and products
• You think not just in terms of features but platforms and systems. You thrive thinking about how the interplay of different capabilities can open up more powerful and interesting possibilities.
• You have significant experience with Databases and APIs. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to speak the language of caching layers, OAuth, and schemas.

Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!

Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.