# Product Architect

## About You

You’re passionate about understanding the needs of users/customers, the 
capabilities of the technology, and finding the convergence of those two 
things to create a slick, powerful, easy-to-use product. You’ve got a 
strong engineering background, and perhaps some product management 
background as well. You’re a technical writer, just as comfortable 
blogging about abstract philosophical topics which underpin a technology 
as you are writing technical reference documentation for a given 
developer tool.

You care about systematic correctness and the “right” way to do things, 
and resolving that against moving fast to solve immediate customer pain 
points. You care about aesthetics in RESTful APIs, in unix command-line 
tools, and in web UIs: usability and user experience are universal 
concerns. You think a lot product strategy and cohesion – the big 
picture of how all the parts fit together.

## The Position

If most or all of the above applies to you, you should come join the 
legendary Heroku product and engineering team as a product architect 
(half software architect, half product manager).

You’ll be working with us to put together technical designs on 
everything from our command-line tools, to our APIs, to the user-facing 
portions of infrastructure features (like SSL and DNS). We’re on the 
cusp of transforming how applications are built and deployed on the web: 
you can be a part of it.

## Applying

If interested, please email us about yourself, and include:

* A description of your approach to problem-solving in any of the areas 
described in this post
* Samples of your technical writing (such as a blog post, readme, or 
reference docs)

Optionally, you may also include:

* Samples of technical designs you’ve done in the past (such as an API 
reference or a UI mockup)
* Your github account
* Your CV/resume

You must be willing to relocate to San Francisco. H1B visa sponsorship 
for non-US citizens is possible if you have a degree.

(We will consider remote applicants, but only if you’re REALLY awesome, 
and willing to make your working schedule overlap with the entire 
afternoon in PST. Please note in your email if you are remote and can’t 
move to SF.)