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NetBox Labs is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own the Network Observability product line, reporting to the Director of Product. You will drive products from definition through general availability and beyond, partnering closely with Engineering, Customer Success, and Go-to-Market teams to build observability solutions that operators rely on to understand network behavior.
In this role, you will own the full product lifecycle for Network Observability features across both Cloud and Enterprise deployments. You'll serve as the subject matter expert in network observability, understanding how telemetry is collected, modeled, and used by operators to detect, troubleshoot, and resolve production network issues. You'll translate deep technical capability into clear business value for customers, sales, customer success, and leadership, equipping GTM teams with positioning, demos, and technical enablement.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the Observability product strategy, roadmap sequencing, and execution from definition through GA and iteration
- Becoming a subject matter expert in network observability technologies and production use cases
- Translating technical depth into business value across multiple audiences
- Prototyping to validate ideas quickly with engineering and customers
- Engaging directly with customers and prospects in discovery, technical pre-sales, and design partner programs
- Partnering across Discovery and Assurance teams to ensure coherent platform offerings
- Defining and owning success metrics to drive roadmap decisions
NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox (the world's most popular network source of truth) and Orb (next-generation network observability platform). The company offers NetBox Enterprise (self-managed with advanced features) and NetBox Cloud (SaaS edition), powering thousands of companies. The company is backed by Notable Capital, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7-10+ years of product management leadership in B2B software, including 3+ years on technically complex products (networking & infrastructure, observability, security, or developer platforms)
- Product experience in network observability, monitoring, or telemetry
- Fluency across observability technologies: SNMP, streaming telemetry (gNMI), flow data (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX), OpenTelemetry, with clear understanding of strengths and limits
- Builder mentality: comfortable in codebases, able to script against APIs, prototype, read pull requests, and engage effectively with engineers
- Ability to translate deep technical detail into business value for audiences from engineers to executives
- Strong track record of owning products across full lifecycle with autonomy to run a product line
- Strong cross-functional influence and ability to drive alignment across engineering, CS, and GTM
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where none exists
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with open source products and communities
- Familiarity with network automation or source-of-truth tooling
- Experience shipping products delivered both on-premises and as SaaS
- Exposure to device discovery or inventory ingestion pipelines
