Jul 31, 2023
We're searching for a Sr. Product Manager with significant kubernetes and cloud infrastructure experience who wants to assist enterprises enhance and automate their development processes. You'll have a lot of actual autonomy in this role. Seriously. There's a lot of work and not enough time, and we're looking for this position expressly to entrust someone with crucial aspects of our product strategy and roadmap. It doesn't mean we won't provide a terrific onboarding and career experience for you; it just means we need someone with a strong bias for action to take a high-level vision or objective and run towards it. Or even tell us why that goal is incorrect and what is more appropriate.
Take an active role in defining the future
Support the development of a vision for your product area; take full ownership if you’re ready for that
Identify the right opportunities to pursue to innovate in your product area
Champion your product vision within your team, the company, and among the Okteto community
Thought-partner with Okteto’s founders, customers, and director of product to inform your vision and roadmap; bring strong opinions if you have them, but hold them loosely
Drive the product in the right direction
Develop a roadmap that prioritizes the most important work for your vision
Be really good at understanding the underlying problems our customers have and translating that into proposals (or PRDs)
Facilitate refinement discussions with your Engineering peers to focus on smaller, iterative pieces of work; perfection can wait
Balance new features, improvements, and bug fixes to ensure we provide a high quality, secure, and reliable product
Manage the product lifecycle end-to-end
Collaborate with engineers and designers throughout the entire product development cycle to provide guidance and feedback to ensure everyone is aligned
Be the voice of the customer and subject matter expert for your team
Work cross-functionally with other product teams on more complex features or company-wide initiatives
Be comfortable with change and managing uncertainty
Support our marketing and sales teams through documentation, blog posts, demos, and other collateral for product features
Effectively engage with stakeholders
Be the subject matter expert for your product area for Sales, Support, Marketing, and any other team that needs your support
Regularly talk with customers and engage with the broader Okteto community
Work with the broader product, design, and engineering teams to share improvements and best practices for product development
Define, track, and measure the success of your work
Determine the most important KPIs for your product area that will (in)validate your team's bets and successes
Be disciplined in analyzing and reporting on your defined success metric(s) to demonstrate successful outcomes
A team of engineers: you will take the lead in making decisions about the product, but you will not manage the people implementing it
Capacity planning: you will own defining the priorities of what gets planned, but Engineering will evaluate how much work is possible
Shipping on time: you will be part of a group, but the group as a whole is responsible for shipping on time. It is not the responsibility of any single person
Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native application architecture
Experience in a Product Management role for a B2B SaaS product
High level understanding of a software developer’s git-based workflows
Independent with a strong bias for action
Adept at breaking down product work into iterative, viable steps
Excited about proactively speaking with customers
Comfortable with a lot of autonomy and highly pragmatic
Strong understanding of how software is built (e.g. dependencies, packaging, testing, deployment)
Proficiency in written and spoken English
You prefer working asynchronously and on all-remote, globally distributed teams
Experience managing a product with both SaaS and Self-Hosted offerings
Experience building DevOps tools and products
Experience working with open source projects
Experience building products and product process from scratch
100% remote from day one means we understand what it takes to foster an efficient, distributed team across international time zones.
$1000 office equipment stipend to get you set up for work-from-home productive success
Sponsored yearly company offsite
Unlimited PTO with 3 weeks minimum encouraged, plus a full company week off in December.
Competitive salary and equity
Health, dental, and vision.
401K
16 weeks paid parental leave for birth, adoption and foster parents.