Senior/Principal Product Manager, Open Source

Pulumi Core and the Pulumi Providers ecosystem are the open source foundation that millions of developers rely on to manage cloud infrastructure. We're looking for a deeply technical Product Manager to own the roadmap for both to shape what cloud engineering looks like for the next decade.

Responsibilities

Own the product roadmap for Pulumi Core (engine, CLI, SDKs) and the Providers ecosystem, partnering with engineering to balance long-term architectural bets with near-term community needs; Obsess over CLI and developer UX — the small frictions that compound over thousands of pulumi up runs, the error messages that make or break trust, the defaults that shape how people think about infrastructure. You’re ready to understand how agents use our product, and create agent-ready interfaces; Engage directly with the Pulumi community — contributing to community-sourced GitHub issues, joining community calls, participating in Slack discussions, and turning real user pain into roadmap priorities; Build in public: shape RFCs, write roadmap posts, and represent Pulumi's open source direction to contributors, customers, and the broader cloud-native ecosystem; Partner with the providers team on the strategy for our large provider ecosystem — what we build first-party, where we invest in tooling for contributors, and how we keep coverage broad and quality high; Translate enterprise customer needs into open source product decisions without compromising what makes Pulumi loved by individual developers; Define success metrics that work for OSS (adoption, contribution velocity, issue resolution time, community health) alongside traditional product metrics, and feed insights directly back into roadmap decisions; Drive end-to-end product delivery from idea to GA and adoption by collaborating with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Support, and the open-source community

Requirements

7+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or technical program management, with significant time spent on developer tools or infrastructure products; Experience building developer tools or platforms (CLI, SDKs, APIs, infrastructure products); Strong intuition for CLI and terminal UX — you have opinions about good error messages, sensible defaults, progressive disclosure, and when interactivity helps vs. gets in the way; Experience working with or shipping in open source — whether as a maintainer, contributor, or PM on an OSS product — and comfort operating in public. Your roadmaps, decisions, and tradeoffs will be visible to a large community, and you're energized rather than drained by that; Hands-on familiarity with modern cloud technologies (containers, Kubernetes, serverless, cloud APIs); Strong technical instincts with the ability to work closely with senior engineers and reason about architectural tradeoffs. Proven ability to ramp quickly in new technical domains and form strong product opinions; Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products in ambiguous or complex problem spaces; Experience working cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Support in a product-led growth environment; Excellent written and verbal communication skills; A commitment to building inclusive, collaborative teams

Nice to have

Background as a maintainer or significant contributor to a well-known open source project; Background in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering; Familiarity with IaC tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane, CDK) and a point of view on what Pulumi does differently; Experience speaking at conferences or representing a product publicly to a technical audience

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees; Unlimited PTO with at least three weeks off annually plus 13 U.S. holidays; 401(k) plan with employer match; 20 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents or primary caregivers and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents or secondary caregivers; Remote-first culture with annual work-from-anywhere stipend; Annual learning and development budget; Equity ownership; Monthly wellness fund; Quarterly happiness fund