Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join Pulumi as a Product Manager for Pulumi ESC (Environment Secrets and Config), a rapidly growing product that helps teams manage configuration and secrets securely and efficiently. You will define and evolve the product strategy, lead roadmap planning, conduct customer research, collaborate with engineering and design teams, and ensure the product's success. This role requires strong technical acumen, experience in developer tools, security, and cloud platforms, and a proven ability to connect customer insights with product execution and business strategy.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or a similar technical role
• Strong technical acumen, especially in developer tools, security, infrastructure, or cloud platforms
• A proven ability to connect customer insight, product execution, and business strategy
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to clarify complex problem spaces
• A bias toward action and a pragmatic approach to delivering value quickly and iteratively
• Experience working closely with engineering and design teams to ship high-quality software

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the product strategy for Pulumi ESC in partnership with leadership and engineering, balancing investments across secrets management and change management capabilities
• Lead roadmap planning and prioritization grounded in real customer needs, technical insight, and long-term vision
• Conduct excellent, unbiased customer research and synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights to guide product direction
• Collaborate with engineering to deliver high-impact features on a steady cadence, while ensuring the product is secure, reliable, and polished
• Partner with design, customer success, sales, and marketing to drive adoption and ensure successful rollouts of new features
• Work across Pulumi teams to ensure ESC integrates cleanly with the broader Pulumi Cloud platform and supports key developer and operator workflows
• Define and measure success criteria, creating tight feedback loops that inform future planning

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in secrets management (PKI, encryption, KMS), configuration systems, or developer security
• Familiarity with platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code workflows, or policy-based tooling
• Experience building products that support change control or structured rollout processes
• Comfort working in or with open source communities
• A track record of guiding complex products toward widespread adoption

Benefits

• We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees
• Internationally, we comply with local healthcare requirements and provide regionally appropriate coverage
• Our unlimited PTO policy encourages balance and rest — and we require employees to take at least three weeks off annually, plus 13 U.S. holidays
• U.S. employees are eligible for a 401(k) plan with an employer match to support long-term financial wellness
• We provide 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents or primary caregivers, and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents or secondary caregivers
• Pulumi has been fully remote since 2020, with teammates across 20+ U.S. states and 12+ countries
• We support flexible work with asynchronous collaboration and an annual “work from anywhere” stipend
• Every employee receives an annual learning and development budget to support growth, learning, and career goals
• We believe in acting like owners. All employees receive equity and are empowered to think big, move fast, and build the future of cloud together
• We offer a monthly wellness fund to support mental and physical well-being, and a quarterly happiness fund for team connection or personal use