Product Manager - Developer Experience, CI, & CD

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the product roadmap for Developer Experience, CI, and CD teams, spanning:
  • Developer portal (Backstage)
  • Service scaffolding and golden paths
  • Shared application frameworks and micro-frontend platforms
  • CI pipeline templates and build automation
  • Test infrastructure
  • Artifact and registry management
  • Deployment tooling
• Partner with engineering leads across Developer Platform teams to turn platform strategy into a scoped, sequenced roadmap with clear ownership.
• Define and track adoption and outcome metrics for developer tooling, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, mean time to restore, and developer satisfaction.
• Drive self-service by making golden paths, scaffolding, and deployment the default way engineers ship.
• Gather and synthesize feedback from engineering teams through SDLC insight tooling, developer surveys, and direct engagement.
• Represent team roadmaps to platform leadership, product stakeholders, and cross-functional partners; communicate tradeoffs, sequencing, and progress clearly.
• Monitor industry trends in developer platforms, CI/CD tooling, and internal developer portals to inform build-versus-buy and roadmap decisions.

Requirements

• Prior product management experience, ideally owning developer-facing or platform products such as internal tooling, CI/CD, developer portals, or infrastructure platforms.
• Ability to define and ship a product roadmap in a technical, engineering-facing domain.
• Ability to translate ambiguous developer pain points into scoped and prioritized work.
• Working technical fluency with CI/CD concepts and tooling, including pipelines, build and test automation, artifact management, and deployment strategies.
• Experience helping engineering teams prioritize features and capabilities for shared application frameworks, such as service chassis libraries, micro-frontend scaffolding, or shared middleware.
• Experience managing product development for infrastructure or platform capabilities with multiple engineering stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Comfort with metrics-driven prioritization, including DORA metrics.

Nice-to-Haves

• Hands-on experience with developer portal platforms such as Backstage; CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo Workflows, or Tekton; or GitOps deployment tooling such as ArgoCD.
• Familiarity with framework governance models, including contribution models, deprecation cycles, breaking-change policies, and adoption incentives.
• Familiarity with financial services or other regulated-industry engineering environments.
• Experience driving platform adoption and self-service models across a large, distributed engineering organization.
• Scrum-based agile development experience.
• Experience partnering with globally distributed engineering teams across time zones.