Hybrid Staff Product Manager – Platform

at Homebase (YC W21)

• Job title: Staff Product Manager – Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $208,000 - $257,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Staff Product Manager developing Homebase platform for secure, scalable systems with a focus on authentication and identity. Collaborating with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Co-own the platform roadmap in close partnership with engineering leadership for authentication, authorization, identity, and shared business capabilities, balancing immediate needs with long-term scale, security, and developer velocity
• Partner with Engineering and leadership to help define platform strategy, direction, and roadmap
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure business-critical systems scale reliably and meet company needs
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear product direction, requirements, success metrics, and customer-facing experience implications
• Lead cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Design to ensure platform decisions consider both system integrity and end-user experience
• Define and track outcomes related to reliability, security posture, developer velocity, and scalability
• Partner with Engineering to define and operationalize platform KPIs, using metrics to drive prioritization and uncover gaps in capabilities and services
• Proactively identify risks, gaps, and opportunities in our platform architecture as the company grows, including build vs. buy decisions and vendor evaluations for platform capabilities
• Own the end-to-end experience for customer-facing platform surfaces (e.g., auth flows, permissions, identity-related UX)
• Ensure platform experiences are intuitive, trustworthy, and aligned with Homebase’s product quality bar
• Partner with Product Design and Research to validate platform-driven user experiences
• Advocate for customers while balancing technical constraints and long-term platform health
• Use AI tools to accelerate product discovery, requirements clarity, and decision-making—and continuously improve how platform PM work gets done

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent on platform, infrastructure, or highly technical product areas
• Strong technical background (e.g., prior engineering experience or deep technical fluency working with engineers)
• Hands-on experience with authentication, authorization, identity systems, or security-adjacent domains, including evaluating third-party solutions and making build vs. buy recommendations
• Proven ability to influence without authority and partner effectively with senior engineering leaders
• Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and defining structure where none exists
• Demonstrated ability to build for scale, reliability, security, and customer experience, not just internal-facing capabilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially for technical audiences
• AI Fluency: Experience using AI tools to improve product workflows, analyze tradeoffs, or increase execution velocity
• Ability to collaborate in the office weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at a Homebase hub

Benefits

• Ownership & Financial Security: Stock options + 401(k) with 4% match
• Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage + FSA options
• Flexible Time: Unlimited PTO (salaried) + company holidays
• Family Support: Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave (after 6 months of service)
• Protection Plans: Life insurance + short/long-term disability coverage
• Work Your Way: Work From Anywhere Month + meeting-free weeks yearly
• Workspace Perks: Meals provided, commuter benefits, team offsites, and Customer Days