Staff Product Manager

Summary

Join Upbound as a Staff Product Manager to enhance the Upbound Marketplace and Day 0 experience for Upbound's commercial product. You will own the Marketplace roadmap, collaborate with engineering and design teams, work closely with customers, and drive strategy execution. This role requires deep knowledge of Crossplane and the Kubernetes ecosystem, along with SaaS product management experience. The ideal candidate has a developer background, 5+ years of product management experience, and public code examples on GitHub or GitLab. The position is open to candidates in EMEA and NAMER, with collaboration within GMT-5 to GMT-8. Upbound offers a strong company culture focused on learning, growth, and impact.

Requirements

• Existing PM experience with SaaS UI based products
• Know, have used, and care about Crossplane. Being the front face for Crossplane’s commercial product requires deep knowledge of the underlying OSS project and problems it addresses
• Developer background - you can use our products and write code to try out new features
• Very familiar with Kubernetes and the related ecosystem
• Enterprise product management experience
• 5+ years of Product Management experience
• Public examples of code on GitHub or GitLab (of any quality, this role isn't shipping production code)
• Constantly think ‘there has got to be a better way to do this’ about anything

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for our Marketplace
• Work with engineering teams to prioritize backlog, identify user gaps
• Create low-fidelity mockups and work through end user features deeply
• Work closely with Design to create holistic user journeys
• Work with the broader Upbound product team to align roadmaps and plans
• Work closely with customer service to understand and respond to customer needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Have built CLI, API, and SDK products in the past
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Crossplane
• Experience creating diagrams and simple illustrations which enhance your content
• Worked with open source communities and managed public roadmaps

Benefits

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