Senior Engineering Manager (Growth and Monetization)
Prague, Czechia
AI Is How We Work
Productboard is an AI-first company. Not as a tagline — but as a daily reality.
Everyone here, from Design and Product to Engineering and our CEO, uses AI every day to prototype, explore ideas, and ship faster. We are investing deeply to make AI part of our foundation.
What that looks like:
Access from day one. Every engineer and leader gets the best tools available — Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and more.
AI Champions across teams. Dedicated experts embedded in teams to pair, unblock, and help you move faster with AI agents.
A codebase built for agents. Structured AGENTS.md files, curated skills, and clean patterns so AI agents can work effectively alongside engineers.
Serious investment in DevX. We continuously improve our developer tooling so testing, prototyping, and working with agents is seamless.
Dedicated AI days. Every six weeks, Engineering, Product, and Design teams get focused time to ship real features using AI tools and push boundaries.
AI isn’t something we experiment with occasionally. It’s how we build.
The opportunity
The way software is built is changing, and fast! Engineers who embrace AI-native workflows today will define the next decade of product development. Those who don’t? They will be explaining what they used to do.
At Productboard, this transformation to being AI native is not a side project; it is our entire focus. AI first is our operating model, and this is how we work. We are building an AI-first Product Engineering organization where learning velocity matters as much as shipping. Our northstar: turn ideas into validated learning twice as fast. More experiments. Tighter feedback loops. Better outcomes.
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who wants to be at the center of this transformation, not watching it happen from the outside. You will lead our Product Growth engineering team — a group focused on helping new users discover value fast, stay engaged, and expand their usage of Productboard. Your work will drive measurable business outcomes across activation, retention, and monetization, while enabling the team to move quickly and deliver high-quality user experiences.
This is a high-impact role where engineering, product, data, and design come together to improve the entire customer journey. Join us, and help shape the future of AI-powered product development.
Why this matters for your career
The gap between engineers who are building with AI daily and those who are still watching is widening fast. At Productboard, you won't just use AI tools. You will shape the architecture that makes AI agents effective, define the workflows that make them reliable, and build the evaluation systems that make them trustworthy. You will work in an environment where AI first is not a future aspiration. It is the current standard.
The skills you build here, agent native design, multi-model orchestration, eval-driven development, AI-ready codebase architecture, are the skills that will define senior engineering for the next decade.
AI is how we build
This is not a tagline. It is our daily operating model across Engineering, Product, and Design. PMs and designers don't just spec features here. They prototype with AI tools and ship to production alongside engineers.
AI is embedded across the full lifecycle: technical discoveries, spec writing, design exploration, implementation, test generation, code review, CI/CD, and incident resolution. Human judgment stays in control. People own product intent and quality decisions, with strong review practices and guardrails that keep shipping safe.
What we are building underneath:
Agent native architecture standards: clear API contracts, semantic naming, and well-defined module boundaries that keep AI effective as systems grow
A context infrastructure layer with repo versioned guidance that AI tools automatically load, improving the output of Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex simultaneously
AI agent workflows for on-call and incident resolution: triage alerts, pull logs, surface relevant history, and suggest remediation
Systematic optimization of AI code review to catch correctness, security, and maintainability issues earlier
What you will do
Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team
Hire, mentor, and grow engineers at different levels.
Build a safe, collaborative, and high-ownership culture.
Guide career development and support engineers in doing their best work.
Drive Product-Led Growth Outcomes
Partner with Product, Design, and Product Analyst to set strategy across activation, onboarding, monetization, retention, and expansion.
Ensure the team delivers measurable improvements through experimentation.
Champion strong measurement practices, instrumentation, and data-driven learning.
Enable Fast, High-Quality Delivery
Create engineering processes that support rapid iteration while maintaining reliability.
Improve experimentation velocity through tooling, automation, and reusable frameworks.
Balance short-term wins with long-term technical sustainability.
Own Technical Direction
Provide technical leadership and support engineers in architectural decisions.
Ensure that solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with our platform vision.
Help the team make sharp technical tradeoffs so they can iterate quickly without compromising reliability.
Guide AI-Driven Growth Initiatives
Support engineers in integrating AI capabilities into onboarding and guidance.
Collaborate with internal AI teams and leverage company-wide AI frameworks.
What You’ll Do Day to Day
Run effective rituals that keep the team aligned and unblocked.
Partner closely with PMs and Designers on experiment planning and user flows.
Support the team in quickly scoping experiments, shipping MVPs, and iterating.
Act as a technical leader for the team — participating in design reviews, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring technical quality in an environment that optimizes for fast experimentation.
Collaborate with senior engineers to define engineering strategy, improve system reliability, and unblock complex technical challenges.
Monitor team health, delivery quality, and engineering efficiency.
Act as a knowledge multiplier, sharing what you learn across and beyond your team to raise the bar for everyone
About you
Experience leading software engineering teams (typically 4+ years).
Strong technical background in modern web technologies and system design.
Ability to review design documents, assess tradeoffs, and guide the team toward sound technical decisions.
A track record of delivering user-facing product work in a SaaS environment.
Experience working in a cross-functional, product-led environment.
Comfort with experimentation, A/B testing, and metrics like activation or retention.
Ability to make technical decisions and guide engineers without micromanaging.
Strong communication skills and ability to set clarity in ambiguous spaces.
Embrace AI as a daily tool in your own workflow. You use AI coding assistants, iterate on prompts, and constantly look for ways to move faster
Our Benefits Include
💰Stock options
💻MacBook Pro + 34″ monitor
📚Educational and Home Office stipend
🏝5 weeks of vacation and 9 sick days
❤️ 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart
🍲Free snacks, drinks, and yummy catered lunches every day (or lunch delivered to your home)
💚 Soulmio mental health platform
🏋MultiSport card to access sports facilities in Prague
🍹Team events, such as happy hours, off-sites, and retreats
⏱Flexible working hours and home office
🧒🏻 Parental benefits
🎓Language lessons
Relocation Opportunities
If joining us means making a move, we’re here to help make that transition easier.
Candidates must have the legal right to work in the EU. While we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role, we’re happy to support relocation to Prague for candidates already authorized to work in the EU.
Relocation Support
We offer a one-time relocation bonus ranging from $6,000 to $13,000 USD, depending on your personal situation, whether you’re moving on your own or with a partner or family.
This bonus is intended to help offset moving expenses and support your transition into your new city. While it may not cover every cost, it provides meaningful financial support as you get settled.
If you’re thinking about relocating and want to explore what this could look like for you, we’d be happy to have that conversation.
About Productboard
At Productboard, we’re on a mission to help product teams build exceptional products with clarity and confidence. As the leading intelligent product management platform, we empower over 6,000 companies, including Salesforce, SAP, Autodesk, and Kroger, to understand what customers need, prioritize what to build next, and align everyone around a shared roadmap.
Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Prague and Brno, Czechia, we’re backed by some of the world’s most respected investors, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global, and Dragoneer.
We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by BuiltIn and Comparably, and to count ourselves among the world’s leading unicorn companies. Well-funded and financially disciplined, we have the stability and runway to build boldly for the long term.
Over the past few years, we’ve rearchitected our platform from the ground up to serve enterprise scale and set the foundation for the next era of product management. Now we’re entering an exciting new phase with Productboard Spark, our AI-first, agentic experience that transforms how product teams work. Spark is a true collaborator that deeply understands your product context, company strategy, and customer needs, helping teams move faster and make smarter, more confident decisions.
Join us as we build the future of product management.
About our culture
Imagine working in a place where everything matters — most importantly, you. At Productboard, values aren’t just something we like to talk about, they’re something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where:
People feel empowered, supported, and included
Trust and transparency are built into the way we work
Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day
Forming our company values was a group effort, with every employee allowed to contribute. From profit-sharing initiatives, like stock options, to open calendars and communication, we don’t waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, successes, and failures.
Join colleagues who are passionate about what they do. Team members who are invested in their work environment, and the future of Productboard. Help shape our company, culture, and product!
We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. We aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based on gender identity, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other bias covered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.
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