Technical Product Manager, Developer Experience & Product-Led Growth

About the role

Telnyx is an industry leader building the future of global connectivity — architecting a private, global, multi-cloud IP network and delivering hyperlocal edge technology through intuitive APIs. The company is financially stable and profitable, investing in pioneering technologies and continuous learning for the team.

We are seeking a highly technical Product Manager to own how developers discover, build on, and grow with Telnyx. The platform spans communications, AI inference, GPUs, edge compute, databases, and real-time applications. This is a hands-on product role leading a small team of six engineers across Developer Relations and Product-Led Growth, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. We want a strong engineer with excellent product judgment who understands developer experience, builds things personally, and knows how to turn developer adoption into revenue.

The team consists of three DevRel engineers (sample apps, open source, technical content, and demos) and three PLG engineers (activation, AI agents and automation, self-service conversion and expansion).

Responsibilities

• Build applications developers actually want to use — lead the DevRel team in building production-quality sample applications, integrations, templates, and reference implementations on Telnyx; publish them on GitHub, maintain them, and make them easy to deploy and extend; turn those applications into compelling technical content, live demos, and developer distribution.
• Drive product-led growth — own the PLG operation responsible for moving developers from signup to meaningful usage and revenue; use product telemetry, behavioral signals, AI agents, and human intervention to identify friction, accelerate onboarding, improve conversion, and expand self-service usage.
• Make the developer experience better — get hands-on with APIs, SDKs, documentation, and infrastructure; work directly with product engineering to identify and resolve issues that make products difficult to use; ensure reference applications continuously test whether products are genuinely ready for developers.
• Build AI-native growth systems — work with Growth Engineering and RevOps to develop automated workflows for developer acquisition, onboarding, account intelligence, technical assistance, and expansion; leverage small teams of excellent technical people supervising powerful automation to outperform larger traditional GTM organizations.
• Connect the entire developer journey — applications attract developers; developers experiment with the platform; PLG helps them succeed; production usage generates revenue; feedback improves products and informs what to build next; be accountable for making that system work.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering background — comfortable building and debugging real applications, working with APIs, reading code, and understanding complex infrastructure.
• Experience as a Technical Product Manager, founding engineer, technical founder, or similar role with substantial personal responsibility for shipping software.
• Exceptional product judgment, particularly around developer tools, APIs, documentation, onboarding, and usability.
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure, LLMs, inference, cloud platforms, real-time systems, or developer infrastructure.
• Understanding of product-led growth, including developer acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and monetization.
• Ability to work with AI coding agents, automation frameworks, product analytics, and modern developer tooling.
• Strong technical communication skills — can explain complicated technologies clearly and recognize what makes a useful demonstration or reference application.
• Comfortable leading a small technical team while remaining deeply involved in the actual work.

Qualifications

• Experience at a developer infrastructure company is valuable.
• Experience personally building and growing something developers love is more important.

How we measure success

• Primary objective: growing developer-led revenue on Telnyx.
• Activated developers, production applications deployed, self-service conversion, usage expansion, and retention.
• Adoption of reference applications, effectiveness of developer content in attracting users, and speed from signup to a working application.
• Focus on applications developers actually use (not demos for the sake of demos), developers reaching production (not just signups), and revenue (not vanity metrics).

Who will thrive here

• Someone who would rather build a working prototype than spend a week debating a roadmap.
• Someone who notices a broken onboarding experience and immediately starts fixing it.
• Someone who understands both what makes infrastructure technically excellent and what makes developers want to use it.
• Capable of leading six very technical people through engineering ability, product instincts, and judgment that make everyone more effective.
• This is a builder's job, not a professional management job — looking for someone who can make Telnyx a platform developers genuinely love building on and turn that into a meaningful business.