Principal Product Manager
About Us
Flagsmith is on a mission to empower teams to ship faster and continuously improve their products. We are a profitable, bootstrapped, innovative company focused on delivering an amazing open source alternative to larger venture backed companies. It’s important for us to continue to build an amazing company while being in control of our destiny - profitability and sustainability are key in today’s world!
We’re fueled by our customer growth, which comes from helping larger teams take control of their release processes. We work across all industries but have the biggest impact on high-risk environments like financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and high tech manufacturing. We’ve built trust with our customers evident by our best in class net retention rates.
Our team spans multiple continents and is 100% remote, with deep roots in engineering and a strong focus on product quality, simplicity, and community. We are filled with team members who have been searching to have impact, and larger scope as opposed to being a cog at a large organisation!
We are hiring a product leader to join as Principal Product Manager (founding role). Your responsibility will be to lead our product direction and execution. You’ll be the founding member of the Product function, building strategy and process from scratch and working directly with the CEO.
What We’re Looking For
This is a rare opportunity to define the future of Flagsmith’s product and how we build it. You’ll need to be both strategic and execution-oriented—comfortable switching between high-level planning and day-to-day delivery. You’ll work closely with customers, engineers, the open-source community, and leadership to build strategy, scale the product team, prioritise work, and scale our impact.
You’ll be building for developers, so a technical background is a big plus. This role is ideal for someone who has been the first product hire or a product leader at a startup and wants to do it again.
We are looking for someone with a passion for the dev tool space, where you might want to start something in 5-10 years yourself. You’ll be someone who will help us continue to push the open source space to the next level!
What You’ll Do
- Define and communicate a compelling product vision aligned with company goals.
- Build a product team and establish related product processes (e.g. discovery, roadmap planning, release process, feedback intake).
- Translate company and customer needs into a clear, actionable product roadmap.
- Collaborate deeply with engineering to scope, build, and iterate on new features.
- Work directly with customers (engineering and product teams) to understand pain points and improve usability and adoption.
- Own the full product lifecycle—from idea to execution to iteration.
- Help shape company strategy and scale the product function over time.
- Support our largest customers directly and build a customer-focused culture across the organization
- Become as a thought leader in the release management space
What You’ll Bring
Beyond the core requirement of deep customer empathy and the ability to balance user needs with technical and business constraints we are looking for someone with:
- 5+ years of experience in product management, including time at early-stage companies.
- Demonstrated success shipping developer tools or technical products.
- Strong technical foundation—ideally having worked as an engineer or in highly technical teams.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to execute at speed.
- Experience building new product processes and functions from the ground up.
- Experience working closely with engineering, ideally in a remote or distributed team.
- Based in Europe or willing to work European time zones.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with open-source projects and communities
- Familiarity with feature flagging, remote config, or CI/CD tooling
- Experience working in bootstrapped or developer-first environments
- Exposure to modern SaaS pricing, growth loops, or product-led growth
- Previous startup or scale-up experience as a founder, early employee, or Head of Product
Why Join Flagsmith?
- Shape the product and the company at a foundational level
- 100% remote team—work where you’re most effective
- Join a small, profitable, fast-growing company with strong product-market fit
- Small engineering team that moves quickly to deliver impact
- Deeply technical product, loved by engineers worldwide
- Join a small, profitable, fast-growing company with strong product-market fit
- Autonomy and ownership from day one
- Competitive compensation and equity
- Join a small, profitable, fast-growing company with strong product-market fit