Product Manager – Kubernetes, Ansible, IaC

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Spacelift

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Enterprise

Spacelift is a flexible management platform for Infrastructure as Code, co-founded in 2020 by DevOps veteran Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry. It helps DevOps teams manage cloud infrastructure by enhancing automation, visibility, and collaboration. The platform supports any IaC setup, offering both hosted and self-hosted versions, maintaining security without sacrificing functionality. Built on open-source components like Docker and Open Policy Agent, it allows for complete customization with prudent defaults. Spacelift is backed by significant funding from top venture capital firms, enabling rapid onboarding of new customers to effectively manage cloud resources.

📋 Description

• Own a defined product area from customer discovery through delivery, launch, and adoption • Speak regularly with platform engineers, DevOps teams, infrastructure leaders, prospects, and customers • Study production workflows involving governance, coordination, visibility, reliability, and adoption • Combine customer interviews, product usage, support cases, commercial feedback, and market research to identify problems worth solving • Define product requirements, success measures, and recommendations using 5 Questions, PR/FAQs, specifications, and decision records • Prioritize work based on customer value, strategic fit, effort, risk, and potential learning • Work with Design to explore, prototype, validate, and refine solutions • Partner with the Engineering Manager on scope and trade-offs while Engineering leads architecture and technical execution • Work with the Director of New Product Development on product direction, major investment decisions, and path to market • Coordinate launch readiness with Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Support • Review adoption and customer feedback after release and decide whether to improve, expand, or stop the work • Build working knowledge of Spacelift, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, policy, cloud infrastructure, and the execution engine

🎯 Requirements

• Product management experience or relevant experience in platform engineering, DevOps, solutions engineering, technical support, product analysis, technical product ownership, or a similar role • Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes or Ansible • Kubernetes experience with Argo CD, Flux, Helm, operators, cluster management, or application delivery, or Ansible experience with AWX/Automation Controller, inventories, job templates, execution environments, or automation workflows • Ability to explain how these tools work and where teams encounter operational or organizational challenges • Working familiarity with Terraform or OpenTofu and core IaC workflows, including Git-based changes, plan and apply, state, policy, and drift • Experience identifying user problems, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative evidence, and turning findings into clear product decisions • Strong written communication and ability to work directly with engineers and technical customers • Good judgment, curiosity, and willingness to change direction when evidence supports it • Strong written and spoken English (B2 or above) • Based in Europe • Nice to have: experience with both Kubernetes and Ansible • Nice to have: experience with cloud infrastructure, OPA/Rego, CI/CD, RBAC, audit systems, or internal developer platforms • Nice to have: experience in B2B SaaS or developer tools • Nice to have: familiarity with Working Backwards, 5 Questions, or another evidence-led product practice • Nice to have: experience using SQL, product analytics, or AI tools for research and analysis

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Remote-first options • Competitive compensation packages • Growth opportunities • Collaborative team environment