Product Manager - Realtime
Job description
Product Manager for Supabase Realtime, owning the surface area developers use to build live, collaborative and event-driven apps (Broadcast, Presence, Postgres Changes and future capabilities). Works closely with the Realtime Engineering team and partners across Product Management, Design and GTM.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
What you'll do
- Collaborate with customers of all sizes and expertise levels: from an indie developer adding live updates to a side project, to startups building collaborative SaaS, to enterprise teams streaming live data to dashboards
- Own the problem statements and solution rationale behind the Realtime roadmap
- Work with Engineering and Design to shape how Supabase crafts the developer experience for the problems prioritized to solve
- Shape how Realtime evolves to enable future application experiences, including its role in AI apps and alongside other Supabase products
- Own Realtime packaging and pricing, working with Pricing, Finance and Billing
- Use data to understand how Supabase developers are using Realtime features: where they succeed, where they get stuck, and what to tackle first
- Keep Engineering, Design and GTM aligned
- Own the plan of record for what's coming, why, and in what order
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of Product Management experience on developer tools, or ex-founder with equivalent depth
- Comfortable commenting on an architecture doc, following a design discussion, and advocating for the user when trade-offs are required
- Have owned an app development platform, feature or framework where real-time was core to the developer experience
- Get your own answers from data: know what you care about in terms of product instrumentation and are comfortable querying and cleaning your own findings
- Comfortable with Postgres and familiar with logical replication
- Work async by default; make decisions in writing and move work forward without meetings
Nice to have
- Existing audience among developers, through social media, open source or developer advocacy
- Worked on a sync engine, local-first or live-query product
- Worked with gaming, AR or collaborative-tool customers
- Shipped something using Supabase
Your team
Supabase Realtime
Realtime Engineering team, working with partners across Product Management, Design and GTM
Benefits
Fully Remote - hire globally; no Supabase offices, but provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
- ESOP - every team member receives equity ownership in the company
- Tech Allowance - budget to set up your ideal work environment (laptop, monitor, headphones, etc.)
- Health Benefits - Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are
- Annual Off-Sites - once a year the entire company gathers in a new city for a week
- Flexible Work - operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time
- Professional Development - annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports growth
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About Supabase
The Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers
Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
Mission
We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.
Key facts
- ~400 team members
- Postgres development platform / backend software
- 60+ countries
- 20+ languages spoken
- Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
- 540,000+ community members
- Born-remote and open-source-first
- No Supabase offices
What they value
- Move fast
- Build in public
- Use what we ship
- Believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities