Who you are

• 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent on platform, infrastructure, or highly technical product areas
• Strong technical background (e.g., prior engineering experience or deep technical fluency working with engineers)
• Hands-on experience with authentication, authorization, identity systems, or security-adjacent domains, including evaluating third-party solutions and making build vs. buy recommendations
• Proven ability to influence without authority and partner effectively with senior engineering leaders
• Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and defining structure where none exists
• Demonstrated ability to build for scale, reliability, security, and customer experience, not just internal-facing capabilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially for technical audiences
• AI Fluency: Experience using AI tools to improve product workflows, analyze tradeoffs, or increase execution velocity
• Ability to collaborate in the office weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at a Homebase hub
• Experience comes in many forms—so if you're excited about this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply!

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Staff Product Manager, Platform to partner closely with engineering leadership and help shape the core platform that underpins Homebase as we scale
• This role is critical to our ability to grow securely, reliably, and quickly
• You’ll own foundational domains including authentication, authorization, identity, and core business platform capabilities, ensuring they are resilient, extensible, high quality
• This is a highly technical PM role—ideal for someone who loves working at the intersection of product, engineering, and security, and who thrives in ambiguity while building for the long term
• Co-own the platform roadmap in close partnership with engineering leadership for authentication, authorization, identity, and shared business capabilities, balancing immediate needs with long-term scale, security, and developer velocity
• Partner with Engineering and leadership to help define platform strategy, direction, and roadmap
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure business-critical systems scale reliably and meet company needs
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear product direction, requirements, success metrics, and customer-facing experience implications
• Lead cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Design to ensure platform decisions consider both system integrity and end-user experience
• Define and track outcomes related to reliability, security posture, developer velocity, and scalability
• Partner with Engineering to define and operationalize platform KPIs, using metrics to drive prioritization and uncover gaps in capabilities and services
• Proactively identify risks, gaps, and opportunities in our platform architecture as the company grows, including build vs. buy decisions and vendor evaluations for platform capabilities
• Own the end-to-end experience for customer-facing platform surfaces (e.g., auth flows, permissions, identity-related UX)
• Ensure platform experiences are intuitive, trustworthy, and aligned with Homebase’s product quality bar
• Partner with Product Design and Research to validate platform-driven user experiences
• Advocate for customers while balancing technical constraints and long-term platform health
• Use AI tools to accelerate product discovery, requirements clarity, and decision-making—and continuously improve how platform PM work gets done

The application process

• Meet the Talent Acquisition team
• Meet the Hiring Manager
• Participate in a Talent Showcase
• Meet Cross-functional Partners
• Background Check + Offer Stage
• Welcome to the team, Homie 🎉

Benefits

• Stock Options
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid time off options
• Offsites, customer days & social events
• Work from Anywhere Month
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) matching program
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices
• MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning
• Group health benefits coverage
• Group RRSP with employer match + TFSA
• Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices
• MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning