Product Manager (Plugin Ecosystem)

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Key Responsibilities

Agile Product Ownership

• Act as Product Owner in an agile team (e.g. participate in standups, sprint planning, retros) for multiple plugins
• Own and maintain the product backlog for assigned plugins
• Write clear, actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical context where needed
• Prioritise backlog based on business goals, customer feedback, and tech constraints
  
  

Feature Planning & Delivery

• Collaborate with the Plugins Lead to break down roadmap initiatives into executable features
• Align sprint goals with plugin business goals and customer outcomes
• Ensure features are shipped on time and meet the acceptance criteria
• Team Collaboration
• Work closely with plugin engineers to clarify requirements and unblock progress
• Facilitate tight feedback loops between engineers, designers, and support teams
• Provide ongoing product direction during development and testing
• Customer & Data Insight
• Gather and synthesise customer feedback, bug reports, and support trends
• Maintain product ideas board to collect customer feedback and track demand for features
• Manage various public feedback forums
• Conduct customer discovery calls to gain insight into customer usage and pain points
• Technical Awareness
• Maintain a basic understanding of plugin architectures and integration considerations
• Translate non-technical needs into structured requirements that engineers can build against
  
  

Skills & Experience

• 2–4 years experience in product management or technical product ownership, ideally with WordPress plugins or SaaS integrations
• Comfortable working in an agile development environment
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Analytical mindset, able to prioritize based on data and impact
• Experience writing user stories, specs, and managing backlogs
• Familiarity with tools like Jira, Linear, or Shortcut; and collaborative tools like Miro, Figma, Slack
  
  

Perks & Benefits

Health & Wellness

• 100% employer-paid private medical and dental insurance for employees, with 50% coverage for dependents (including domestic partners).
• Mental health, fertility, and maternity coverage included.
• Vision care: Eye exams and discounts on frames and contacts.
• Access to telemedicine services with an online GP.
• Annual wellness benefit of €1,000 (tax-free) through Clevercards.
• Free subscription to Calm for mental wellness.
• 25 Days Annual Leave + 4 Company Wellness Days
  
  

Financial Benefits

• Company pension with a 5% employer match after six months (voluntary contributions can start immediately).
• Income Protection
• Company stock options.
• €460 one-time work-from-home allowance (net of taxes).
  
  

Professional Growth

• Access to LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning, and our Career Growth Portal.
  
  

At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.