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Outsell is a team of top professionals serving key clients across the data, information, and analytics industry. Do you have what it takes to help us make our clients even more successful?
Outsell Purpose
Our Promise to Know
The data, information, and analytics economy fuel the human spirit by advancing, discovery, justice, and commerce, around the world. At Outsell, we work every day serving executives operating in this economy whether buyers, sellers, or investors. When our clients are successful, together, we help the world to know.
Outsell Core Values
Integrity: We are honest, ethical, and direct in all of our dealings in and outside our company and are a trusted advisor and unbiased thought leader.
Service: We are client-centered, good listeners, easy to do business with, and focused on sustaining great relationships.
Innovation: We embrace change, focus our services on the leading edge, and are always learning and improving.
Accountability: We are committed to our clients achieving outstanding results and say what we’ll do and do what we say.
Fun, Freedom, and Family: We get the job done in a way that works for our clients, our colleagues, and each other while running a financially healthy business and being active citizens in the world.
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Principal Product Engineer
You’ll be at home in an organization that understands working virtually isn’t an experiment but a way of life; we’ve been leading the way and doing it since 1998. We understand flexibility, family, and freedom—doing great work with a great team while having fun along the way. Outsell is the leading research and advisory firm serving executives operating in the data, information, and BTB vertical tech industries. Our solutions leverage proprietary data, leading industry experts, thriving peer-to-peer communities, and world-class events. Through deep relationships, we ensure our clients make great decisions about their strategy, M&A, operating practices, competition, and markets. We stand by our work 100% and are fanatical about our clients’ success.
We are seeking a hands-on Head of Product Engineering/Principal Product Engineer to drive the execution and delivery of the Outsell Platform for market & competitive intelligence and community engagement. The technical vision and architecture are in place—this role is about delivering the roadmap, refining the user experience, and ensuring the platform is robust, scalable, and easy to use for clients, internal and external analysts, and other stakeholders.
The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineering leader with expertise in TypeScript and Python, with deep experience using Node.js (Express), React, and Celery with Prisma for database management and Gitlab for CI/CD automation. The next phase of our next-gen platform development will focus on automation, data processing, and user interfaces. The person in this role must be comfortable collaborating directly with clients, and business stakeholders, to ensure the platform meets their needs.
Key Responsibilities:
Execution & Delivery
• Work with Head of Outsell Intelligence to prioritize and drive the execution of the product roadmap, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
• Implement both front-end and back end enhancements to refine the platform
• Improve internal tooling used by analysts to manage and process structured datasets
• Ensure seamless integration of automation and AI-driven insights into the customer and user experience
Technical Leadership & Hands-on Development
• Continue building and optimizing the core platform on Node.js/Express and React using TypeScript
• Enhance data processing and automation with Celery in Python
• Ensure scalability, security, and performance across the entire system
• Embed AI-powered insights (OpenAI) to deliver intelligent market intelligence
solutions
• Optimize data workflows, API performance, and user interface functionality
• Lead and manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployments,
automation, and DevOps best practices
• Advise on technical vision and architecture for future platform decisions.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
• Work directly with heads of product for our two flag-ship offerings and business stakeholders to gather feedback and refine features. Activity engage with customers in and outside the firm
• Translate real-world market and competitive intelligence workflows into easy to execute realities with a customer-first mindset
• Help non-technical stakeholders understand system capabilities and limitations
• Lead and mentor a small engineering team, ensuring best practices in full- stack development
Job-Essential Requirements
Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or a related technical field) is required (Master’s degree preferred)
Experience
• 8+ years in software engineering, with full-stack expertise
• Experience leading and executing technical roadmaps in B2B SaaS, analytics, or market intelligence applications
• Background in delivering complex RESTful web applications with a balance of front-end and back-end work
• Ability to work directly with non technical stakeholders (customers, analysts, business leaders, etc.)
• Extensive experience with GitLab and GitLab’s CI/CD for deployment automation and DevOps workflows
Technical Skills
Languages:
• TypeScript (primary language for backend and frontend development)
• Python (used for automation and data processing)
• Proficiency in SQL for querying and managing structured datasets.
Frameworks & Tools:
• Backend: Node.js (Express), Prisma
• Frontend: React
• Task Automation: Celery
• Database: Postgres, Redis
• DevOps: GitLab CI/CD
• AI Integration: OpenAI
Other Skills:
• Strong API development, system design, and performance optimization skills
• Experience working with data-heavy applications and structured datasets
Leadership & Execution Focus:
• Proven ability to deliver against a defined roadmap in an agile environment
• Strong mentorship and leadership experience, fostering high-performing teams
• Excellent communication skills, translating complex technical needs into business outcomes
• Ability to collaborate closely with product, adjusting features and priorities based on their feedback and the feedback of external and internal customers
• Motivated by commercial success and seeing market adoption as validatio of solving real customer problems in meaningful ways
Why Join Us?
• Own and lead execution of a cutting edge market intelligence platform.
• Work directly with stakeholders to shape the product experience.
• Competitive compensation, flexible work arrangements, and career growth opportunities.
If you’re a highly skilled full-stack engineering leader who thrives on building and delivering great software, we’d love to hear from you!
This is a player-coach role offering leadership opportunity alongside a ‘doer’ mentality. If you are seeking a leadership role in a small great firm join us today.
Apply now to hr@outsellinc.com and be part of our journey at Outsell, Inc.
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About Outsell
Outsell is the leading research and advisory firm serving executives operating in the data, information, and analytics economy. Our solutions leverage proprietary data, leading industry analysts, a partner network, thriving peer-to-peer communities, and world-class events. Through deep relationships, we ensure that our clients make great decisions about strategy, competition, markets, operating best practices, and M&A. We stand by our work 100%, guarantee results, and are fanatical about our clients’ success.
Outsell embraced remote work over 20 years ago, and over the years, we’ve honed it for our entire team. Whether it is onboarding a new hire, collaborating across teams, measuring effectiveness — we focus on output, not input — or maintaining a cohesive and positive culture, we do remote right. In joining us, you won’t become some experiment in a vision of a “new normal” — you’ll be one of the team, operating as we all do from day one.