Explain responsibilities

Clarify responsibilities

A good responsibilities section should make it clear to the candidate what they will expected to achieve.

Example: Engineering Manager (Miro)

Below is a real example for an engineering manager role in Miro's Analytics Engineering team. Miro starts by explaining why this role exists before clearly articulating what the role is all about, who the candidate will be interacting with and how Miro expects the candidate to be successful.

What you’ll do

  • In partnership with peers in Data and Analytics, define the direction and approach for Analytics Engineering

  • Lead the team on a day-to-day-, week-to-week, month-to-month basis in the execution of strategy

  • Cultivate operational excellence and knowledge within the team (and other practitioners of data development)

  • Work hands-on to build and improve data models

  • Cultivate standards and implement data quality management across our data model so that we can know with confidence that our data is right, every time we use it

  • Mentor a multi-functional group of contributors in extending our data models

Example: Product Manager (Stripe)

Below is a real example for a product manager role in Stripe's Data Services team. Notice how much detail Stripe puts into this description.

Responsibilities

  • Be a well-rounded product leader – someone who has both excellent product design/UX sense, technical depth and strength in business, customer acquisition and revenue growth strategy

  • Be a well-rounded and strategic product manager – someone who has both excellent product design/UX sense, strong technical sense, brings platform thinking and strategy to our products brings and can define and execute against the product ecosystem strategy

  • Develop our multi-year vision, strategy and roadmap for Stripe Data Services in partnership with our Revenue & Financial Management leads

  • Be accountable for product roadmaps, resource planning, and release cadence within your group

  • Drive sales and product discussions with our most important users and partners to ensure that we achieve our targets

  • Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, product marketing, customer and user-facing teams at Stripe to deliver great products to our customers

  • Work directly with current and potential Stripe customers to understand their needs and how we can solve for them

  • Lead initiatives to build 0 → 1 products and experiences while scaling existing products in market

  • Drive product design and prioritization decisions for your team, as well as teams who partner closely on related experiences in the Stripe portfolio

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