Product Manager

ABOUT KESTRA

Kestra http://www.kestra.io/ is the universal orchestration platform — open source, declarative, and designed to orchestrate data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems.

Trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide — including JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, FILA, and Crédit Agricole — Kestra orchestrates mission-critical workloads at scale. The open-source project https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra has close to 30,000 GitHub stars, hundreds of contributors, and a fast-growing global community.

In March 2026, we closed a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, with participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo – backed by founders from Datadog, dbt Labs, and Hugging Face.

THE ROLE

We're looking for a pragmatic Product Manager who can drive features from customer problem to delivery with minimal process. This is not a "project manager" or "product owner" role — we care about shipping real value fast, not maintaining SCRUM rituals.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the full product lifecycle: understand user problems, define technical specs, prototype (AI tools encouraged), and work closely with developers to ship high-quality releases.
• Collaborate with the Product Lead and CTO to shape and scope features for each 8-week release cycle.
• Make informed tradeoffs — balancing simplicity, technical feasibility, and long-term sustainability.
• Coordinate development progress and ensure features are delivered, QA'd, documented, and ready to go.
• Drive continuous improvement based on customer feedback, usage data, and community input.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Hands-on, startup-minded PM comfortable working without heavy process or structure.
• Strong technical understanding — ideally with exposure to infrastructure automation or orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, or similar).
• Excellent communication and clarity in writing — specs, product decisions, and public-facing documentation.
• Full ownership mentality. You iterate quickly based on feedback and don't wait to be told what to do.
• Experience or familiarity with open-source development — comfortable writing publicly and discussing product changes in GitHub repositories.
• Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across time zones.

BONUS POINTS

• Past experience as a software or infrastructure engineer.
• Experience in a B2B software or open-source company.
• Exposure to SaaS products, especially self-serve or platform-oriented.
• Familiarity with developer communities and how they adopt tools.

WHAT YOU GET

• Real ownership in a globally distributed, technical team.
• Direct exposure to product strategy and company priorities.
• A product used for mission-critical workloads — not demos.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and health insurance.