Your mission

Do you want to build a product that's central to your users' everyday lives and make a measurable impact? Are you tired of working in environments where product managers just execute sales wishes? Are you passionate about technology and do you love to actually interact with users?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our product team at Checkmk and make a real difference!

As our new Product Manager (m/f/d), you will take end-to-end ownership of a defined product area within our monitoring platform. Your responsibility is to translate product strategy into a clear roadmap and a well-prioritized backlog that enables your team to deliver meaningful user value continuously. 

You will work closely with engineering, UX, and domain experts to deeply understand the technical landscape and user needs. Based on this understanding, you will define problems worth solving, make trade-off decisions, and ensure that each increment contributes to a coherent and scalable product vision. Your goal is to ensure users can effortlessly see and understand exactly what's happening across their entire stack before an actual failure occurs. Here's what your journey with us will look like:

• Enhance the monitoring of technologies (OS, networking, cloud, etc.) with a specific focus on simplifying setup, discovery and analysis workflows within the UI.
• As Product Owner for your development team, own the end-to-end experience for new and reworked features, from discovery and implementation to documentation, internal enablement, and measurable adoption. 
• Partner closely with our UX designers to translate complex technical requirements into cohesive product solutions that enable users to act with confidence and clarity.
• Work closely with our users to understand their mental models and ensure the product interface provides helpful, out-of-the-box insights for their specific domains.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for both the technical depth and the frontend capabilities of the product, guiding internal teams on best practices.
• Dive deep into Checkmk to handle 3rd level support tickets jointly with our developers, guiding them when product decisions are needed
• Ensure strategic focus within your product area by actively managing and prioritizing the backlog, facilitating stakeholder alignment, and making transparent trade-off decisions to optimize value delivery.

Your profile

• Proven track record as a (Technical) Product Manager or Product Owner with a strong affinity for UX.
• A "detective" mindset for technical issues, combined with a user-centered mindset for how to solve them in the user interface.
• A solid understanding of IT infrastructure and cloud services, and the ability to bridge the gap between technical backends and intuitive frontend requirements.
• Familiarity with monitoring or DevOps software is a significant advantage, as it helps you immediately empathize with our users' technical challenges
• Strong analytical skills to break down complex backend data into meaningful user-facing information.
• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to act as a bridge between deep-dive engineering and user-centric design (German is a plus).

Why us?

• The chance to make a decisive impact and shape the future of a dynamic, fast growing tech company while growing with your tasks and responsibilities
• Flexible and family-friendly working conditions in a stable environment
• With the wide range of sports and wellness offers from Wellpass, you can choose from over 9,000 sports and wellness offers
• An agile team that embodies autonomy and fast decision making within flat hierarchies
• A unique corporate culture where we emphasize equality, diversity and inclusion
• A wide range of education and training opportunities
• Fully remote work or high flexibility between mobile work and an office in one of the most beautiful, central district of Munich
• An attractive salary
• Regular onsite events of all sorts (Company Outings, Team events, Checkmk Conference, Conference After Party and more) in a familiar atmosphere

Interested? Then contact us now!
You can get insights about working@checkmk at: www.kununu.com/de/checkmk

About us

We are the creators of Checkmk, a leading hybrid IT monitoring software for both cloud-native and traditional infrastructures and applications. Checkmk is available as an open-source and commercial edition. We are a strong team of software developers and DevOps, open-source enthusiasts and nerds who are passionate about helping small and large companies run their complex IT infrastructures reliably. Over the last years we have grown from 20 to over 250 employees to support our customer growth in Europe, the US and beyond. Our colleagues currently work from our Munich HQ as well as across Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Spain, Poland, USA, Singapore and Malaysia.

We are a dynamic, fast growing and easy-going company where positive collaboration is very important. We are more than just colleagues; we have a strong team and a great customer community. For us, high autonomy and flat hierarchies are not just words on paper, but everyday life. With us you don’t work as one of hundreds or on purely theoretical questions but have an immediate positive influence.   

With our product, we make the lives of thousands of administrators easier and help them in coping with the increasing complexity of IT. Our customers love our product and your work helps to keep it that way!