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General Manager - Developer Tools

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in B2B software
  • Significant senior leadership experience in revenue, sales, or GM roles
  • Demonstrated analytical and financial acumen
  • Proven experience leading and scaling professional services teams in a software business

Responsibilities

  • Full ownership of business performance, including revenue growth and margin
  • Own and execute the GTM strategy across direct and partner-assisted sales motions
  • Analyze performance drivers and take corrective action based on data
  • Partner with product and marketing to translate market signals into roadmap prioritization

Key facts

  • Remote from: North America
  • Full time
  • Senior (5-10 years)
  • 0
  • English

Other skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Financial Acumen
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Decision Making

About the company

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IDERA Software

IDERA understands that IT doesn’t run on the network – it runs on the data and databases that power your business. That’s why we design our products with the database as the nucleus of your IT universe. Our database lifecycle management solutions allow DBAs and IT Ops professionals to do more with less, so they can design better, build faster and run quicker. Serving more than 20,000 customers worldwide, we offer a diverse portfolio of free tools and educational resources to help you monitor and manage your infrastructure with complete confidence, whether in the cloud or on-premises. IDERA is an Idera, Inc. company. Idera, Inc. is the parent company of global B2B software productivity brands whose solutions enable technical users to do more with less, faster. Idera, Inc. brands span three divisions – Database Tools, Developer Tools, and Test Management Tools – with products that are evangelized by millions of community members and more than 50,000 customers worldwide, including some of the world’s largest healthcare, financial services, retail, and technology companies. Manage your IT with confidence. Manage your IT with IDERA. To learn more, visit www.idera.com

Company details

Company typeSME
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

 

Location: Remote (North America), Austin, TX preferred

Idera is a portfolio of B2B software businesses serving IT, data, and developer professionals worldwide. Our Developer Tools brands support engineering teams across the software development lifecycle and are sold through a mix of direct sales, self-service, and partner-assisted channels.

We are hiring a General Manager to lead a multi-product Developer Tools business with a clear mandate: drive predictable revenue growth and operating performance by tightly integrating software sales, professional services, and financial discipline.

This role requires a leader with strong analytical rigor, financial fluency, and operating cadence, who can translate data into decisive action and leverage professional services to accelerate software adoption, expansion, and lifetime value.


The Role

This is a commercially aggressive, analytically grounded GM role for a leader who understands how to scale revenue by aligning sales execution, professional services, and unit economics.

You will operate as the business owner, accountable for revenue, margin, services performance, and forecast accuracy. Success in this role is driven by disciplined analysis, operating rigor, and an ability to identify and pull the highest-ROI levers across the business.

This is not a passive GM role. We expect hands-on leadership and continuous performance improvement quarter over quarter.


Key Responsibilities

Business, Financial & P&L Ownership

  • Full ownership of business performance, including:
     
    • Revenue growth
       
    • Gross margin and contribution margin
       
    • Services utilization and profitability
       
    • Forecast accuracy and predictability
       
  • Build and operate the business using data, metrics, and financial models
     
  • Regularly analyze performance drivers and take corrective action based on:
     
    • Unit economics
       
    • Funnel efficiency
       
    • Services attach, margin, and capacity utilization
       
  • Identify and execute against the highest-impact financial and operational levers to improve growth and profitability
     


Sales & Go-To-Market Execution

  • Own and execute the GTM strategy across direct and partner-assisted sales motions
     
  • Lead revenue planning, quota setting, and capacity modeling
     
  • Establish strong operating rigor around:
     
    • Pipeline coverage, quality, and velocity
       
    • Conversion rates and sales productivity
       
    • Forecast inspection and variance management
       
  • Hire, develop, and hold accountable high-performing sales leaders and frontline managers
     


Cross-Functional & Executive Leadership

  • Partner with product and marketing to translate market and services signal into:
     
    • Roadmap prioritization
       
    • Enterprise-ready messaging and packaging
       
  • Build executive-level relationships with strategic customers and partners
     
  • Act as the primary business advocate within Idera leadership, clearly articulating performance, risks, and opportunities through data
     


Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in B2B software
     
  • Significant senior leadership experience in revenue, sales, or GM roles
     
  • Demonstrated analytical and financial acumen, including:
     
    • Comfort owning a P&L
       
    • Strong understanding of SaaS and services unit economics
       
    • Ability to diagnose performance issues using data and financial models
       
  • Proven experience leading and scaling professional services teams in a software business
     
  • Track record of integrating services into GTM motions to drive measurable software growth
     
  • High bias for action, with comfort operating in ambiguous, performance-driven environments
     


Nice to Have

  • Prior GM, business unit, or full P&L ownership
     
  • Experience with Developer Tools, IT tooling, or technical buyer personas
     
  • Background in PE-backed or highly metrics-driven organizations
     
  • Experience transforming services from reactive delivery to proactive revenue lever
  • Own professional services strategy, economics, and integration into the sales motion
     
  • Use services deliberately to:
     
    • Increase win rates on complex and enterprise deals
       
    • Accelerate time-to-value and adoption
       
    • Drive expansion, renewals, and multi-product penetration


Leadership Style & Fit

  • Highly analytical, metrics-driven, and financially rigorous
     
  • GTM-first and intensely execution-focused
     
  • Treats professional services as a strategic growth and margin lever, not a cost center
     
  • Sets clear goals, inspects performance relentlessly, and holds teams accountable
     
  • Comfortable moving between strategic planning and tactical problem-solving
     
  • Decisive, resilient, and direct
     


Why This Role

  • Lead an established Developer Tools business with meaningful scale and growth potential
     
  • Clear mandate to improve predictability, efficiency, and profitability
     
  • Direct ownership of revenue, services economics, and execution outcomes
     
  • Opportunity to expand into broader portfolio or multi-brand GM leadership

An Equal Opportunity Employer - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Idera, Inc. will process and retain your resume and related personal information solely for recruitment and hiring purposes. Resumes of unsuccessful candidates will be securely deleted within twelve (12) months of the hiring decision, unless a longer period is required by law or you provide explicit consent for continued retention (e.g., for consideration for future opportunities).


In compliance with applicable privacy laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information at any time by contacting  [email protected]. Idera, Inc. does not sell candidate data and will ensure that all personal information is processed securely and in accordance with relevant data protection regulations.

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