Product Manager, Developer Platforms & Experience VP

Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong product management experience in platform, infrastructure, developer tooling, or enterprise environments
• Passion for improving developer experience and engineering effectiveness
• Experience working in discovery-led product environments
• Strong problem-framing, prioritisation, and decision-making skills
• Ability to balance developer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and risk considerations
• Comfortable working with research, data, metrics, and experimentation to inform product direction
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
• Curiosity, empathy, and a strong customer mindset
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and leading through influence rather than authority
• 6-10+ years of Product Management experience
• Experience delivering platform, developer tooling, infrastructure, or enterprise software products
• Experience working in Agile or modern product development environments
• Experience using customer, user, or employee research to inform product decisions
• Experience working in large, complex organisations
• Ability to partner effectively with senior engineering and technology leaders
• Experience within financial services or another regulated environment
• Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms and developer portals such as Backstage
• Exposure to platform engineering, cloud, DevOps, or CI/CD ecosystems
• Experience working with developer productivity, developer satisfaction, or engineering effectiveness metrics
• Familiarity with AI-enabled developer tools and their impact on engineering workflows

Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of the developer experience across the software development lifecycle
• Treat engineers as customers, using research, feedback, data, and experimentation to guide product decisions
• Partner with Engineering, Platform teams, and Experience Research to identify pain points, unmet needs, and opportunities
• Invest time in product discovery to validate problems, test assumptions, and build confidence in business decisions
• Establish and manage dual discovery and delivery tracks with engineering partners
• Define product strategy, roadmaps, and outcomes for Developer Experience initiatives
• Prioritise opportunities that reduce friction and improve developer productivity, satisfaction, and effectiveness
• Work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Platform teams to deliver scalable solutions
• Define success measures and track adoption, satisfaction, productivity, and business outcomes
• Communicate product vision, priorities, trade-offs, and progress clearly to senior stakeholders

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Support
• Product Manager
• Security
• LESS

More:

We are building on our investment in Developer Experience as a strategic capability and are seeking an experienced Product Manager to help shape and scale our Developer Experience program. This highly collaborative role has senior visibility across Global Technology and focuses on improving the day-to-day experience of engineers by reducing friction, increasing self-service, and enabling teams to build, test, deploy, and operate software more effectively. We work closely with Engineering, Experience Research, Platform teams, Architecture, and Design to shape product priorities using qualitative insights, quantitative data, feedback, and operational metrics. The role is based in London, England and is full time. At State Street, we support institutional investors around the globe and are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered. We offer inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome qualified applicants from all backgrounds.

last updated 34 week of 2026