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Gradle is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the Toolchain Observability product area within Develocity, their context-engineering platform for AI-driven software delivery. Develocity is used by leading organizations including Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, and SAP to provide deep observability, build/test acceleration, and AI-powered intelligence across the software delivery toolchain.
In this role, you will define and articulate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Toolchain Observability, accounting for how AI-driven development (coding agents, agent swarms, software factories) is generating new classes of telemetry and raising requirements for what teams need to observe, trust, and act on across the software delivery lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
**Product Strategy & Vision:** Define clear product vision and roadmap for Toolchain Observability; conduct market research, competitive analysis, and customer interviews to identify opportunities across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments; develop business cases for new initiatives.
**AI Integration:** Establish product direction for how AI agents and autonomous workflows benefit from Develocity's observability capabilities; collaborate with the AI strategy team to identify opportunities where Develocity's unique data and domain expertise can power AI-driven observability and diagnostics; stay current with the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape and evaluate how LLMs, coding agents, and agentic workflows impact telemetry, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
**Requirements & Prioritization:** Gather, analyze, and prioritize product requirements from customers, sales, support, and engineering; translate business requirements into prioritized functional requirements with strong value propositions; make pragmatic roadmap prioritization decisions.
**Cross-functional Collaboration:** Work closely with engineering, sales, and marketing to drive strategy execution and customer success.
You are an experienced B2B Senior Product Manager with a proven track record leading strategy, roadmap, and delivery in the observability or developer tooling space. You have deep understanding of extracting actionable intelligence from complex, high-volume telemetry and recognize how AI-driven software delivery is making trustworthy toolchain observability more critical. You bring experience defining product requirements for telemetry collection, analytics, and alerting across the software delivery lifecycle. You have strong instincts for translating customer needs and market trends into product decisions that accelerate time-to-value, with a keen sense of the full customer lifecycle from discovery through adoption and long-term value realization.
