Staff Product Manager

Summary

Join Upbound, the company behind Crossplane, as a Product Manager to spearhead the development of their managed Crossplane experience. You will craft the vision, strategy, and roadmap for this market-leading product, translating customer feedback into requirements and user stories. Collaboration with engineering, design, and customer service teams is crucial. This North America-based role requires deep knowledge of Crossplane, Kubernetes, and the SaaS landscape, along with 8+ years of product management experience. The ideal candidate possesses experience building managed X-as-a-service products and a passion for improving existing processes. Upbound offers a strong company culture focused on learning, growth, and impact.

Requirements

• Have built managed X -as-a-service product experiences
• 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
• Very familiar with Kubernetes and the related ecosystem
• Enterprise product management experience
• 8+ years of Product Management experience
• Public examples of code on GH/GL (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

• Spearhead the development and implementation of a market-leading managed Crossplane experience by crafting the vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution plan
• Be the voice of the customer and translate feedback into product requirements, strategy docs, and user stories
• 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

• 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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