Senior Product Manager - Core Platform

Responsibilities

Own the Core Platform Strategy and Roadmap

• Define and communicate the Core Platform product strategy and roadmap with Engineering and Product leadership.
• Prioritize foundational investments based on customer impact, enterprise needs, technical risk, and engineering effort.
• Make trade-offs between near-term customer needs, technical debt, and long-term architecture explicit.
• Lead product discovery for technically complex problems with enterprise customers and customer-facing teams.

Scalability, Reliability, and Execution

• Drive scalability and reliability improvements for the execution engine, including worker pools and distributed execution.
• Improve trigger reliability and execution behavior across complex deployments, including multi-main Cloud environments and self-hosted enterprise installations.
• Shape a more secure and flexible approach to code execution.

Major Releases and Cross-Organization Alignment

• Plan and release major or breaking platform versions, including migration strategy, stakeholder communication, and risk management.
• Establish clear success measures and hold the squad accountable for outcomes.
• Bridge the Core team with Product, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Support.
• Treat internal product teams as platform customers by identifying implicit requirements and turning cross-cutting needs into explicit Core Platform work.

Requirements

Must-Haves

• 5+ years of product experience, including 2–3 years working on platform, infrastructure, developer-facing, or backend/API products.
• Technical depth sufficient to reason about distributed systems, execution models, reliability, scalability trade-offs, and non-functional requirements.
• Track record leading cross-team technical initiatives with significant delivery risk, ideally including a migration or breaking change.
• Strong prioritization and ability to connect foundational or technical-debt work to customer and commercial outcomes.
• Ownership, autonomy, and ability to drive outcomes independently.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understanding of customer-controlled environments, including self-hosted, air-gapped, and restricted deployments.

Nice-to-Haves

• Ability to read code or build prototypes.
• Experience with B2B SaaS requirements such as security, compliance, and deployment complexity.
• Experience partnering with security teams on code execution, isolation, or compliance.
• Familiarity with workflow automation, orchestration, open-source, or developer-community products.
• Writing-oriented approach to creating clarity and alignment.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Equity ownership.
• Europe: 30 days of vacation plus local public holidays.
• US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, and public holidays.
• Europe: Benefits and pension contributions according to local country norms.
• US: Medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match.
• €1,000 per year for courses, books, events, or coaching.
• Remote-first work across Europe with regular off-sites.
• $100 per month to support open-source projects.
• Visa sponsorship is available for Germany; candidates elsewhere need existing work authorization.