Homebase (YC W21)

Staff Product Manager – Platform

Homebase (YC W21)

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $208,000 - $257,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementauthentication systemsauthorization systemsidentity systemssecurityplatform strategyKPI definitionrisk assessmentvendor evaluationAI tools
Soft Skills
influence without authoritycollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcustomer advocacycross-functional alignmentadaptabilitystrategic thinkingdecision-makinguser experience focus