Product Operations Lead

Sonar Source

5+ Years | Geneva, Switzerland (On Site) | Full Time | 10 months ago

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Job Summary

Sonar is seeking a Product Operations Lead to join a newly formed squad, focusing on developing customer-centric products and driving business growth through "collective intelligence." The role involves working with Product leadership on strategic initiatives, leading pricing and packaging strategies, driving process improvements within Product Management, and defining executive review cadences. This position requires advising assigned Product Management teams to ensure alignment with company vision and strategy across functions like Marketing and Sales. The goal is to enhance business orientation, discipline, and decision-making within the Product organization, ultimately contributing to Sonar's mission of supercharging developers.

Must Have

5+ years in Management Consulting/strategic roles and Tech industry
Hands-on experience with pricing and packaging
Experience with product launches and NPI processes
Familiarity with Cloud and SaaS industries
Passion for software products and technology
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills
Excellent communication skills with English fluency

Good to Have

Product Operations or Product Management experience
Team player with a can-do attitude
Ability to navigate a matrixed organization

Perks & Benefits

Dynamic work culture valuing respect and kindness
Embraces the right to fail and learn
Focus on people skills alongside technical skills
Flexible work policy (3 days in-office, 2 days remote or fully remote options)
Growth mindset and support for continuous education
27 PTO days (Geneva region), additional days based on seniority
Pension contributions (60% of total cost)
Savings contributions (13.5%-15.5% of base salary)
Risk contribution (2%)
Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus
Commuting support (sustainable mobility options, 60% refund for transportation subscription)
Annual global kick-off events

Job Description

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.

Why You Should Apply:

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have:

As a Product Operations lead, you will be part of a newly created squad to help us develop the best products to meet customers needs. Product Operations is a critical function within the Product organization that ensures business orientation, discipline, and better decision making. As part of a team-based organization, your contributions will significantly impact the growth of our business via Sonar’s “collective intelligence” mindset.

What You Will Do Daily:

Work with Product leadership on strategic initiatives
Lead key pricing and packaging initiatives, defining list pricing, discount policies, and packaging structure for our most important products
Drive process improvement within the Product Management organization
Define and implement the Executive Review cadence, ensuring effective alignment of the Product organization with the overall company vision / strategy and the rest of the functions (e.g. e.g. Marketing, Sales)
Be an advisor to your assigned Product Management team

The Experience You Will Need:

5+ years of combined experience between Management Consulting / strategic roles and Tech industry roles, preferably with Product Operations or Product Management
Hands on experience with pricing, packaging, product launches and NPI processes in Enterprise software
Familiarity with the Cloud and SaaS industries
Passion for software products and the underlying technology
Team player with a can-do attitude able to navigate a matrixed organization
Strong analytic, problem solving, and leadership skills
Exceptional communication skills with fluency in English, both written and spoken

Why You Will Love It Here:

Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

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.
We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.

We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.