Product Manager

About Kestra

Kestra 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 has close to 30,000 GitHub stars, hundreds of contributors, and a fast-growing global community.

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.