Founding Product Manager

Old problem, new $25B+ market

Companies like AWS, Stripe, and Twilio have shown that if a technology isn't core to your value proposition, you should offload it. Still, every engineering team builds and rebuilds one piece: authorization, how you control who has access to what in your app. We intend to change that.

We see a world where developers never roll their own authorization again, and instead say, "Just use Oso" – the same way you might say, "Oh, you should just use Postgres for that." In doing so, we're creating the $25B+ authorization market.

Why Oso?

We have the lead – in traction, capital, and team.

• Traction: Oso is used by thousands of companies from startups to the Fortune 500, like Wayfair, Arc, Intercom, Visa, Oxide, and Codecademy.
• Capital: We're the best-capitalized, with 4+ years of runway from the world’s best investors, including Sequoia, Felicis, and infrastructure entrepreneurs like Olivier Pomel (Founder, Datadog), Dev Ittycheria (CEO, MongoDB), Arman Dadgar (Founder, Hashicorp), Edith Harbaugh (Founder, LaunchDarkly), Guy Podjarny (Founder, Snyk), Paul Copplestone, (Founder, Supabase), Christina Cacioppo (Founder, Vanta), and Calvin French-Owen (Founder, Segment).
• Team: We've spent 3+ years going deep on the domain. We've met with thousands of engineering teams and know more about this problem than anyone. And we have two of the best developer go-to-market leaders on earth who have done it before at MongoDB and Snyk.

Why now?

We're at an inflection point. What it takes to get from where we are today to a world where developers say “Just use Oso” is going to be different. And we see that.

The opportunity is for you to join at this inflection point.

What you'll do

• Work with the founders to prioritize and sequence the product roadmap
• Help engineers deeply understand customer needs, empowering them to make great product decisions
• Meet with customers to validate ideas and iterate on features with engineers
• Programmatically collect and organize customer information from Segment, our web site, Slack community, customer conversations, and other channels

Who you are

• You're ambitious. You want to win big. You can't stand to be around anything but execution at the highest level. You have an inner motor to move fast.
• You're an owner. You are accountable to results over the process. You see yourself not just as an PM, but also as an owner of the company.
• You're resilient. Building a startup is not for the faint of heart. You see the challenges as not just normal, but actually desirable.
• You want to grow, and help others grow. You self-reflect often. You give feedback, and you seek it out.
• You prioritize the customer above all else. You want to understand our users' world and prioritize solving their authorization problems above everything else.

Requirements

• You have thrived working in a startup
• You have launched new products successfully
• You have a track record of success
• You are technical (e.g., have managed technical products, have worked as a developer, have done pre/post-sales for technical products). Our users are developers, so you will need to be able to communicate with them at all levels about their experience with the product.

Oso is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.