Digital Product Manager (Container Platform)

Team: Product

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Define and execute the product strategy for an expanding Kubernetes container platform, ensuring priorities align with business and technology objectives.

• Own the product roadmap and backlog, balancing new capabilities, enhancements, lifecycle management, security, operational risk, and measurable business outcomes.

• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to identify needs, define success criteria, validate assumptions, and translate complex requirements into actionable product initiatives.

• Lead discovery and test-and-learn activities to validate product direction and reduce uncertainty before investing in new capabilities.

• Analyze complex container and cloud technologies and use those insights to inform product decisions and platform evolution.

• Manage lifecycle activities across the technology stack, ensuring components remain current and meet vulnerability-management standards without disrupting hosted applications.

• Develop product metrics and KPIs to measure adoption, effectiveness, and outcomes, using insights to continuously refine the product strategy.

• Create communication strategies that improve platform awareness, adoption, transparency, and alignment among technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Break complex challenges into manageable work items and prioritize them according to value, risk, and stakeholder impact.

• Collaborate across product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and other teams to implement decisions and initiatives effectively.

• Coach and mentor product teams, stakeholders, and peers while contributing to a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in new product development or technology development within a fast-paced environment.

• Experience with Platform as a Service (PaaS) or container orchestration technologies across multiple Kubernetes distributions, such as RKE2, EKS, AKS, or GKE.

• Working knowledge of Kubernetes container-platform concepts, including experience executing kubectl commands.

• Strong understanding of cloud services across multiple cloud providers, as well as infrastructure-as-code and immutable infrastructure concepts.

• Experience working in KPI-driven environments with accountability for determining and executing the best course of action to achieve defined goals.

• Proficiency with Agile methodologies and ceremonies, including iterations, technical story writing, estimation/point systems, and backlog refinement.

• Ability to communicate complex technical and innovative concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration, facilitation, presentation, written communication, and verbal communication skills.

• Strong analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and time-management abilities, with comfort navigating ambiguity and independently resolving challenges.

• A proactive, self-directed approach, with the ability to anticipate problems, identify opportunities, and drive initiatives with limited supervision.

• Genuine interest in technology products and the ability to identify opportunities for innovation.

• Knowledge of API development and testing and basic SQL queries is a plus.

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery environments is desirable.

• Experience shipping software and an entrepreneurial, action-oriented mindset are additional advantages.

• Ability to collaborate with global partners during teams' typical EST working hours.

Benefits

• Annual compensation range of $120,000–$193,725, depending on experience and qualifications.

• Fully remote work opportunity within the United States.

• Comprehensive technology equipment, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.

• Monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset home internet costs.

• Support for a dedicated, private home workspace and reliable internet connectivity.

• Opportunity to work on a large-scale Kubernetes and cloud platform spanning data-center and public-cloud environments.

• Exposure to complex technologies including Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, networking, security tooling, and platform engineering.

• Opportunities to coach, mentor, collaborate across teams, and contribute to continuous learning.

• Background investigation required as part of the hiring process.

• Teams generally work EST hours to facilitate collaboration with global partners.