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.