Product Manager - Growth at Stacklok

San Francisco, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

13 Feb, 26

Salary

186000.0

Posted On

15 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Product Management, Growth Strategies, Developer Tools, APIs, SDKs, Open Source, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Experiments, Onboarding Flows, Technical Acumen, Communication Skills, Analytics, GitHub, Documentation, Collaboration, Experimentation

Industry

Software Development

Description

Stacklok, founded by Kubernetes co-creator Craig McLuckie, is building the future of secure context delivery for enterprise AI. Our flagship platform, Toolhive Enterprise, is the first enterprise-grade solution for orchestrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers at scale. Trusted by the Fortune 500, Toolhive enables organizations to securely connect generative AI to internal data, APIs, and knowledge bases, without sacrificing security, compliance, or governance. With Stacklok, enterprises can move beyond pilots and confidently operationalize AI in production. Connect With Us! Location This is a remote role; however, candidates must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Being located in the Bay Area is essential for engaging with the local developer ecosystem, including attending meetups, events, and community gatherings that are core to the role. The Opportunity As a Growth Product Manager for ToolHive, you’ll lead efforts to amplify developer adoption and make ToolHive the default platform for building with MCP. The role focuses on driving top-of-funnel growth, boosting GitHub stars, contributor engagement, and downloads by designing scalable, community-powered growth strategies. You’ll be hands-on in architecting compounding growth loops, refining onboarding flows, and building programs that welcome developers at every stage of their journey. This includes working side-by-side with engineering, design, marketing, and DevRel teammates to launch data-driven initiatives and champion a seamless developer experience. You’ll also gather feedback and insights from the open-source ToolHive community and translate them into meaningful product improvements. Your impact will be reflected in rising community engagement, improved onboarding metrics, and strong developer advocacy for ToolHive as the most secure and intuitive way to connect MCP servers. What Success Looks Like: First 6-12 months Rapid Product & Developer-Experience Fluency: Within the first 3 months, strong fluency in ToolHive’s architecture, developer workflows, and onboarding journey has been established, allowing early identification of high-leverage growth opportunities and adoption friction. Culture of Experimentation: Multiple top-of-funnel growth experiments have been launched, yielding at least a few high-impact learnings and measurable improvements. Reduced Onboarding Friction: Time-to-value is lower for new developers, with key blockers quickly identified and addressed to improve activation rates. Accelerated Developer Growth: ToolHive’s repos and SDKs show clear gains in GitHub stars, contributors, downloads, and developer signups. Community-Driven Product Improvement: Roadmap and product decisions are meaningfully shaped by insights from GitHub Issues, community feedback, and analytics. In This Role, You Will Benchmark ToolHive’s growth against leading OSS and developer tools to identify new opportunities and track progress. Monitor and report on key growth funnel metrics, using dashboards and analytics platforms to guide strategy and ongoing improvements. Develop and implement data-driven experiments that increase GitHub stars, repository activity, downloads, usage, and developer signups for ToolHive. Lead enhancements to developer onboarding, optimizing documentation, quickstarts, and tutorials to shorten time-to-first-usage and improve activation/retention rates. Collect and translate community developer feedback into features and roadmap priorities. Partner closely with engineering, DevRel, and marketing to coordinate impactful product launches, events, campaigns, and developer advocacy initiatives. We understand Not everyone will meet every requirement listed, and that’s perfectly okay. We encourage you to apply regardless of your self-assessment. We value a diverse range of skills and experiences and believe your unique perspective can make a significant impact. We want to hear from you! Desired Skills & Experience Direct experience as a growth/product manager for developer tools, APIs, SDKs, or OSS projects. Fluent with developer ecosystems, OSS contribution models, repo management, community norms, and roadmap transparency. Demonstrated engagement with developer communities: GitHub Issues/PRs, Discord, Slack, live conferences/events. Strong technical acumen, comfortable reading technical docs, trying APIs/CLIs, and working closely with engineers. Experience designing/iterating onboarding flows, docs, quickstarts, and developer engagement campaigns. Proven record of running data-driven growth experiments, tracking funnel metrics, and diagnosing adoption blockers (using Looker/Amplitude/Mixpanel/SQL/etc.). Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences; proven ability to author docs, specs, and growth analyses. Comfortable operating independently in fast-paced, ambiguous environments. Base Salary Range: $124,000 - $186,000 Why Join Us? At Stacklok, we believe great technology is built by teams that support, challenge, and inspire one another. We are AI maximalists, confident in its potential and committed to ensuring it is used in ways that are safe and sustainable. You will join a highly motivated, collaborative team with deep experience building some of the world’s most impactful technologies. We work in the open, side by side with the community, with strong roots in open source, cloud-native technologies, security, and developer tools. We offer competitive compensation, equity, comprehensive healthcare, and a flexible work environment - including adaptable work hours and flexible PTO to support your success. If you're excited about the future of AI, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about their craft, their community, and each other, we would love to hear from you. Stacklok Inc, is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.

Responsibilities

As a Growth Product Manager, you will lead efforts to amplify developer adoption of ToolHive and drive top-of-funnel growth. This includes architecting growth loops, refining onboarding flows, and collaborating with various teams to enhance the developer experience.