Staff Product Manager, CI/CD & Developer Productivity
$218,000–$300,000 year
Remote
Job Summary
Shape build and deploy experiences from hundred-line prototypes to architectures with hundreds of services, ensuring seamless delivery whether the code originates from a person or an AI agent. Own the build and deploy system end to end, setting the roadmap for build speed, deploy success rate, and failure diagnosis. Define foundational primitives like reusable build artifacts and application-level deployment rather than accumulating one-off features. Drive performance work including caching, incremental builds, and monorepo workflows while making failures fast to diagnose through root cause surfacing at the point of failure. Talk to customers constantly to translate patterns into prioritization decisions and partner with customer success on at-risk accounts to define commitments and workarounds.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of product management experience
- time spent on developer tools, infrastructure, or platform products
- significant depth in the delivery domain: CI/CD, build systems and caching, containers and registries, deploy strategies (canary, blue-green, rollbacks, health checks, zero-downtime deploys), and infrastructure as code
- ability to hold your own in an architecture conversation and tell a load-bearing technical constraint from a preference
- ability to set direction that holds up over multiple quarters
- ability to drive alignment across engineering, design, and go-to-market without owning those teams
- ability to raise the bar for how product work gets done around you
- ability to think in primitives and platforms
- comfort with ambiguity and limited data
- ability to form opinions from customer conversations, analytics, and technical constraints
- ability to defend a prioritization under capacity limits
- ability to communicate clearly with everyone from a platform engineer evaluating your build system to a CTO asking about competitor benchmarks
- ability to say no while preserving trust
- obsession over developer experience
- high bar for speed, reliability, and legibility in the tools you ship
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with product-led growth motions or products serving both self-serve users and larger accounts
- Hands-on experience as a software engineer
- Experience taking a platform primitive from design partner beta through general availability
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