Technical Product Manager - Code Quality

Position description

The team:

You will join the Code Quality product team, part of Sonar's Product Management group. Each Code Quality PM works with dedicated engineering squads and partners closely with UX, marketing and sales. We value collaboration, kindness and continuous improvement, and we base decisions on data and customer evidence.

What will you own: 

• The strategy and roadmap to develop our language ecosystems, from market research and customer discovery to shipped rules and analyzers.

• Decisions on which new languages Sonar should support, and where we should not compete.

• New AI capabilities: how our analysis fits into the workflows of AI coding agents, and how quality gates apply to AI-generated code.

• Day-to-day trade-offs with analyzer engineers, such as rule precision versus noise, and analysis speed.

• Regular contact with developers and customers through calls, our community forum and conferences, and turning what you learn into roadmap decisions.

What you will do

You’ll enjoy this role if you care about well-crafted software and like owning a topic end to end.  

• Product vision and roadmap: research, clarify, and prioritize opportunities, and keep the roadmap effective

• Customer interaction: engage with users on the product forum, support them, and turn their feedback into opportunities

• Domain expertise: develop a deep understanding of code quality and how to help developers write more reliable, maintainable software

• Cross-team work: collaborate with other PMs on cross-product features, and align with engineering and UX from problem definition through development

Experience and qualifications

Must-haves

• 5+ years in technical roles, ideally including hands-on software development.

• 3+ years as a product manager on a technical or B2B software product, owning discovery, strategy and roadmap rather than only the backlog, preferably in an agile environment.

• Hands-on use of AI coding assistants or agents in your own work, and an informed view of how they are changing software development.

• Proven ability to lead a topic autonomously from start to finish, making pragmatic decisions amid change, complexity and uncertainty.

• Fluent written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Solid understanding of code quality in at least one programming language or ecosystem.

• Technical understanding of how code scanning and static analysis tools work.

• Experience in developer tools, or contributions to open-source tooling such as linters, compilers or IDE plugins.

• Experience speaking or writing for developer audiences.

 

If you meet most of the must-haves and this work interests you, we encourage you to apply even if your background doesn’t match every point.

Benefits of Working with Sonar:

• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
• We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.  
• Commuting:Sustainable mobility options, including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
• Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.