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United States
Remote only
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Digital Product Manager (Container Platform) based in United States.
This is a highly technical product leadership role focused on the lifecycle of a Kubernetes-based container platform.
You will shape product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and priorities across a strategic Platform as a Service portfolio.
The role combines hands-on technical understanding with product discovery, stakeholder engagement, and outcome-driven decision-making.
You will work across data centers and major cloud environments, including AWS and Azure.
Your work will help create a scalable, secure, self-healing, and frictionless platform for digital product teams.
You will also champion continuous learning, coach stakeholders and product teams, and help drive adoption of platform capabilities.
The environment is agile, collaborative, technically sophisticated, and designed for people who enjoy solving complex problems independently.
Define and execute the product strategy for an expanding Kubernetes container platform, ensuring priorities align with business and technology objectives.
Own the product roadmap and backlog, balancing new capabilities, enhancements, lifecycle management, security, operational risk, and measurable business outcomes.
Partner with technical and business stakeholders to identify needs, define success criteria, validate assumptions, and translate complex requirements into actionable product initiatives.
Lead discovery and test-and-learn activities to validate product direction and reduce uncertainty before investing in new capabilities.
Analyze complex container and cloud technologies and use those insights to inform product decisions and platform evolution.
Manage lifecycle activities across the technology stack, ensuring components remain current and meet vulnerability-management standards without disrupting hosted applications.
Develop product metrics and KPIs to measure adoption, effectiveness, and outcomes, using insights to continuously refine the product strategy.
Create communication strategies that improve platform awareness, adoption, transparency, and alignment among technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Break complex challenges into manageable work items and prioritize them according to value, risk, and stakeholder impact.
Collaborate across product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and other teams to implement decisions and initiatives effectively.
Coach and mentor product teams, stakeholders, and peers while contributing to a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
5+ years of relevant experience in new product development or technology development within a fast-paced environment.
Experience with Platform as a Service (PaaS) or container orchestration technologies across multiple Kubernetes distributions, such as RKE2, EKS, AKS, or GKE.
Working knowledge of Kubernetes container-platform concepts, including experience executing kubectl commands.
Strong understanding of cloud services across multiple cloud providers, as well as infrastructure-as-code and immutable infrastructure concepts.
Experience working in KPI-driven environments with accountability for determining and executing the best course of action to achieve defined goals.
Proficiency with Agile methodologies and ceremonies, including iterations, technical story writing, estimation/point systems, and backlog refinement.
Ability to communicate complex technical and innovative concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong cross-functional collaboration, facilitation, presentation, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
Strong analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and time-management abilities, with comfort navigating ambiguity and independently resolving challenges.
A proactive, self-directed approach, with the ability to anticipate problems, identify opportunities, and drive initiatives with limited supervision.
Genuine interest in technology products and the ability to identify opportunities for innovation.
Knowledge of API development and testing and basic SQL queries is a plus.
Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery environments is desirable.
Experience shipping software and an entrepreneurial, action-oriented mindset are additional advantages.
Ability to collaborate with global partners during teams' typical EST working hours.
Annual compensation range of $120,000–$193,725, depending on experience and qualifications.
Fully remote work opportunity within the United States.
Comprehensive technology equipment, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
Monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset home internet costs.
Support for a dedicated, private home workspace and reliable internet connectivity.
Opportunity to work on a large-scale Kubernetes and cloud platform spanning data-center and public-cloud environments.
Exposure to complex technologies including Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, networking, security tooling, and platform engineering.
Opportunities to coach, mentor, collaborate across teams, and contribute to continuous learning.
Background investigation required as part of the hiring process.
Teams generally work EST hours to facilitate collaboration with global partners.
