Communicate program health, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly and consistently to stakeholders and leadership
Surface tradeoffs early and explicitly so that prioritization decisions happen deliberately, not reactively
Provide relevant data to create visibility into product development processes and progress
Pair closely with Product and Engineering leads to share context, enabling effective decision-making
Build strong, trust-based relationships with engineers to understand challenges and remove blockers
Free up Engineering and Product leaders from ad-hoc coordination, progress tracking, and timeline alignment
Implement change management within the Product & Engineering org
Reduce rework caused by misaligned sequencing or unclear ownership
Support the organization’s growth in teams and initiatives while minimizing associated chaos
What You’ll Enable
This role isn’t just about what you do—it’s about the capacity you create for the teams around you and the pace at which the organization can ship
Help teams ship complex, multi-team products faster by removing coordination bottlenecks and keeping critical paths clear
Help teams operate like well-oiled machines—with clear ownership, predictable cadences, and fewer fire drills
Enable faster, clearer tradeoff decisions when priorities collide across teams
Create the connective tissue that lets the company scale its initiative count without scaling its chaos
For Product Managers
With less time spent coordinating how things ship, PMs can invest more in
Product strategy, roadmap quality, and use case definition
Customer discovery and feedback loops
Clear problem definition and success metrics
Prioritization within their domain
Partnering with Engineering on solution direction
For Engineering Managers
With less time spent on cross-team coordination overhead, EMs can focus more on
Team health, hiring, and retention
Technical direction and quality
Coaching and growing engineers
Delivery confidence without last-minute surprises
NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. We help customers accelerate network automation by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network automation community
NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, the world’s most popular network source of truth, and Orb, the next-generation open source network observability platform. Our products include NetBox Enterprise, a fully supported self-managed NetBox with advanced features, and NetBox Cloud, a secure, scalable, and reliable SaaS edition of NetBox
NetBox powers thousands of companies, and NetBox Labs is backed by investment from Notable Capital (formerly GGV), Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital
We own and solve problems with high attention to detail
Our open source contributors, users, customers & team are all part of our community. When our community wins, we win
We prioritize simplicity and think twice before adding complexity
Clear communication helps keep our team aligned and collaborating smoothly