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Job Overview

Come join the Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ Development Platform team, where we’re shaping the future of cutting-edge technology! We're building the foundation that powers Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ's flagship applications with highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native platforms. And we’re not stopping there — we’re rapidly transforming into an AI-native company, harnessing intelligent infrastructure management and seamless experiences to revolutionize how we operate.

At Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ, we don’t just use open source, we lead it. We actively contribute to and participate in vibrant open-source communities, including CNCF, the Linux Foundation, and GraphQL. If you're passionate about driving innovation, collaborating with world-class engineers, and making an impact on the future of technology, this is the place for you.

What’s in it for you? As a Product Manager in this dynamic group, you'll:

• Lead the development of pioneering AI-native platforms that are transforming the way developers interact with infrastructure.
• Solve complex, business-critical challenges with innovative solutions, while having a tangible impact on Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ’s roadmap and success.
• Play a key role in the open-source ecosystem, contributing to and leading innovation in cloud-native and AI-native technologies.
• Drive our GenAI powered developer experiences, empowering teams to work smarter and more efficiently across a massive, distributed microservice architecture.
• Collaborate on the future of Kubernetes, Istio, AWS Cloud, and platform extensibility, helping to shape the next generation of developer platforms

Who are we looking for? We need a forward-thinking, deeply technical Product Manager who:

• Has extensive experience building platforms at scale, with a deep understanding of the AI-native shift in infrastructure.
• Balances strong technical expertise with an empathy for customer needs, and has a proven ability to execute and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Is passionate about working on multi-tenant, cloud-native systems and enjoys pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in AI-native environments.
• Thrives in collaborative environments, driving partnerships with users and other tech leaders to elevate Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ’s presence in the cloud-native community.

If you’re excited about driving the next wave of AI-native infrastructure and want to make your mark in an environment that fosters innovation and open-source leadership, this role is your chance to lead and grow!

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the vision and strategy for Kubernetes ecosystem and AI infrastructure and provide product thought leadership in identifying critical customer requirements, understand business goals, and define product roadmaps and KPIs.
• Effectively manage dependencies, priorities, and plans across different groups at Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ towards consistent product delivery aligned towards common goals.
• Take a data-driven approach in prioritizing requirements, creating and communicating plans and roadmaps, defining success metrics to deliver impactful business results.
• Demonstrate customer obsession by being a champion for the user experience with deep customer empathy.
• Evangelize and create broad awareness for the service communications ecosystem with technical talks at both internal and external forums and customer events.
• Serve as a product evangelist for container based developer platforms  both internally and externally by speaking at conferences, meetups, community meetings in cloud-native space and bring external-in perspectives to how Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ builds a highly scalable, reliable, high-performance platform.
• Actively participate in and be a thought leader in the open-source community in the  platform engineering domain.
• Be part of the extended product management team to contribute across Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ platforms.
• Be customer-obsessed, acting as the voice of developers and Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ’s customers in creating and operationalizing world-class SaaS platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing and delivering world-class platform products, with a focus on large-scale distributed systems and platforms.
• Expertise in container ecosystems, developer tools, Kubernetes, storage, and networking, with a strong understanding of AI-driven infrastructure management.
• Proven experience building and launching products on public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Deep understanding of designing and scaling SaaS products, services, and infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience in Agile environments, with the ability to drive backlog grooming, prioritization, and iterative development.
• Technical background with hands-on development experience or a history of presenting technical demos.
• Demonstrated ability to define a product vision, inspire teams, and deliver innovative, AI-native solutions with significant business impact.
• Strong track record of owning a product’s lifecycle from concept to successful delivery.
• Customer-focused, with a deep passion for understanding and addressing customer needs and influencing strategy through a customer-first approach.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience leading execution across teams and influencing stakeholders in both small and large settings.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field; advanced degree is a plus.