Product manager

Spacelift is looking for a Product Manager to own our Kubernetes application-delivery product, a new product for teams that run Argo CD in production. You will own the product from customer discovery through delivery, launch, and adoption. Working with Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Support, you will identify important customer problems, decide where to invest, and turn validated opportunities into products customers use.

• Speak regularly with platform engineers, DevOps teams, infrastructure leaders, prospects, and customers.
• Study production workflows to understand problems involving governance, coordination, visibility, reliability, and adoption.
• Combine customer interviews with product usage, support cases, commercial feedback, and market research to identify the problems worth solving.
• Define product requirements, success measures, and clear recommendations using tools such as 5 Questions, PR/FAQs, specifications, and decision records.
• Prioritize work based on customer value, strategic fit, effort, risk, and potential learning.
• Work with Design to explore, prototype, validate, and refine solutions.
• Partner with the Engineering Manager on scope and trade-offs while Engineering leads architecture and technical execution.
• Recruit design-partner customers and run pilots of early versions with them.
• Work with the Director of New Product Development on product direction, major investment decisions, and the path to market.
• Coordinate launch readiness with Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Support.
• Review adoption and customer feedback after release, then decide whether to improve, expand, or stop the work.
• Build and apply working knowledge of Spacelift, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, policy, cloud infrastructure, and our execution engine, including how the Kubernetes product connects with existing IaC workflows.

• 3+ years of product management experience, including independent ownership of a technical B2B product or product area from discovery through delivery and adoption.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes application delivery, gained through product management, engineering, solutions engineering, or a similar technical role: Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, and GitOps promotion across environments.
• The ability to explain how these tools work and where teams encounter operational or organizational challenges.
• Working familiarity with Terraform or OpenTofu and core IaC workflows, including Git-based changes, plan and apply, state, policy, and drift.
• Experience identifying user problems, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative evidence, and turning findings into clear product decisions.
• Strong written communication and the ability to work directly with engineers and technical customers.
• Good judgment, curiosity, and a willingness to change direction when the evidence supports it.
• Strong written and spoken English (B2 or above).
• Based in European Union.
• Будет плюсом: Experience with Kargo, Flux, Argo Rollouts, Harness, or another GitOps delivery tool; Experience with cloud infrastructure, OPA/Rego, CI/CD, RBAC, audit systems, or internal developer platforms; Experience in B2B SaaS or developer tools; Familiarity with Working Backwards, 5 Questions, or another evidence-led product practice; Experience using SQL, product analytics, or AI tools for research and analysis

• Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management’s future.
• Be a key player in driving Spacelift’s business and AWS partnership to new heights.
• Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packages.
• Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partners.