Neon is an open-source company on a mission to enable developers to ship faster on a serverless platform powered by Postgres.
Are you an experienced Technical Program Manager eager to lead and coordinate high-impact programs, automate processes and enable our team to ship the right thing with high quality and on time?
This is our first TPM role at the company, so the person we hire will have an enormous opportunity to inform and develop our processes, tools, and approach as the company scales and develops.
Our ideal candidate:
Is proactive and autonomous, identifying on changes that need to be made, sharing their plan for feedback and implementing
Is flexible as situations and requirements come into focus, revealing the unexpected or change
Ambitious to personally empower and accelerate others
Is comfortable making, flagging and enabling difficult prioritisation decisions for themselves and others - including what to focus on, and when to let things go
Has high Emotional Intelligence, and makes context-aware choices around communications, timing, and public vs private communication
Is comfortable with ambiguity, and has various approaches to reducing it
Has a technical background, which they use to understand underlying work and inform their approach.
Is comfortable identifying when their technical background is insufficient, transparent and self-motivated to learn more so that their work can succeed
Is comfortable writing scripts and building tooling to automate routine tasks
Adapts existing process, making the cost of process minimal while increasing the value from it
Understands the cost of process and tool change, and can apply those changes incrementally, adapting based on feedback
Is flexible on tools, process,es and approach based on changing company needs
Neon has a small team, and we do not intend to grow a TPM team in the near future. This candidate must be comfortable working solo and develop the tools and systems to scale their impact rather than scaling by hiring.
This TPM will handle both long-term, company-scale initiatives as well as shorter-term project management for a small number of top-priority multi-team projects (on the scale of “Deploy Neon on Azure, and work with Microsoft to integrate Neon with the Azure Portal” and “Make Neon HIPAA compliant”)
Responsibilities of this hire will include:
Planning: Building and coordinating effective, lightweight, and transparent planning processes that support our ability to deliver and understand capacity in the future.
Oversight and Correction: Building tools and processes which identify efforts which are on or off-track, proactively taking action to resolve internally and escalating when necessary (Metrics, reporting, documentation).
Coordination, Facilitation, Reporting: Identifying necessary parties for efforts, and supporting their work through coordination and communication (eg. RACI).
Standards and Consistency: Developing standards with our teams, and gently rolling them out while seeking feedback and confirming their effects.
Stakeholder Management: Across internal functions, and with external parties.
Our Team
We are a distributed team of 120+ people working from 25+ countries (concentrating around North American and European time zones)
We are a team built on open-source cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, and proactivity)
Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical
We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Arseny, Matthias profiles)
We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open-source
We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
We are keen to be a fast-moving, flat org and avoid hierarchical structures
About Neon
Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We’re a well funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low-level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.
Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers, and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.
Our Investors
Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:
We raised $104+ million in funding from Menlo Ventures, Notable Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund.
Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.
Our angel investors are prominent technologists and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney.
Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Tim Tully.
Our Offer
You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling, ambitious team
You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
We grant equity (stock options) to all full-time hires
We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)
We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon, Portugal)
