Director of Product Management – Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (FME)

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary

As the Director of Product Management for Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (FME), you will own the vision and execution of our core product strategy. You’ll lead a team of product managers and partner closely with engineering, design, marketing, and go-to-market teams to deliver capabilities that enable faster, safer software delivery through feature management and experimentation. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on product expertise and has high visibility across Harness executive leadership.

About the role

• Define the product vision, strategy, and success metrics for Harness FME.

• Build, mentor, and scale a team of product managers.

• Drive roadmap planning and execution across feature flagging, experimentation, SDKs, and release monitoring.

• Collaborate with engineering and design to deliver simple, scalable, and high-quality features.

• Engage directly with customers to validate needs and shape product direction.

• Monitor market and competitive trends to ensure FME leads in innovation.

• Partner with marketing, sales, and customer success to launch and drive adoption of new capabilities.

• Present strategy and progress to executive leadership to align priorities and secure resources.

• Establish processes and practices that improve product development at scale

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent; MBA or advanced degree a plus.

• 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years leading PMs.

• Experience building and scaling developer tools, experimentation platforms, or data infrastructure.

• Strong technical acumen with a background in experimentation and data-driven decision-making.

• Familiarity with analytics and visualization tools such as Looker, Tableau, Mixpanel, or Segment.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineers, customers, and executives.

• Track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver impactful products.

• The ideal candidate has leveraged an experimentation platform, whether homegrown or third-party, to drive an experimentation program at scale

Work Location

• We would prefer someone to be based in the Bay Area but we will consider candidates who are located within the U.S

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Flexible work schedule

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave

• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

• Monthly internet reimbursement

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $230,000 and $255,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

Pay transparency
$230,000—$255,000 USD

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• Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards

• Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger

• Harness snags Split.io, as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments

• Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

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Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

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