Product Manager

About KestraKestra is the universal orchestration platform — open source, declarative, and designed to orchestrate data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems.Trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide — including JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, FILA, and Crédit Agricole — Kestra orchestrates mission-critical workloads at scale. The open-source project has close to 30,000 GitHub stars, hundreds of contributors, and a fast-growing global community.The RoleWe're looking for a pragmatic Product Manager who can drive features from customer problem to delivery with minimal process. This is not a "project manager" or "product owner" role — we care about shipping real value fast, not maintaining SCRUM rituals.What You'll DoOwn the full product lifecycle: understand user problems, define technical specs, prototype (AI tools encouraged), and work closely with developers to ship high-quality releases.Collaborate with the Product Lead and CTO to shape and scope features for each 8-week release cycle.Make informed tradeoffs — balancing simplicity, technical feasibility, and long-term sustainability.Coordinate development progress and ensure features are delivered, QA'd, documented, and ready to go.Drive continuous improvement based on customer feedback, usage data, and community input.What We're Looking ForHands-on, startup-minded PM comfortable working without heavy process or structure.Strong technical understanding — ideally with exposure to infrastructure automation or orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, or similar).Excellent communication and clarity in writing — specs, product decisions, and public-facing documentation.Full ownership mentality. You iterate quickly based on feedback and don't wait to be told what to do.Experience or familiarity with open-source development — comfortable writing publicly and discussing product changes in GitHub repositories.Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across time zones.Bonus PointsPast experience as a software or infrastructure engineer.Experience in a B2B software or open-source company.Exposure to SaaS products, especially self-serve or platform-oriented.Familiarity with developer communities and how they adopt tools.What You GetReal ownership in a globally distributed, technical team.Direct exposure to product strategy and company priorities.A product used for mission-critical workloads — not demos.Competitive compensation, equity, and health insurance.Originally posted on Himalayas

About KestraKestra is the universal orchestration platform — open source, declarative, and designed to orchestrate data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems.Trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide — including JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, FILA, and Crédit Agricole — Kestra orchestrates mission-critical workloads at scale. The open-source project has close to 30,000 GitHub stars, hundreds of contributors, and a fast-growing global community.The RoleWe're looking for a pragmatic Product Manager who can drive features from customer problem to delivery with minimal process. This is not a "project manager" or "product owner" role — we care about shipping real value fast, not maintaining SCRUM rituals.What You'll DoOwn the full product lifecycle: understand user problems, define technical specs, prototype (AI tools encouraged), and work closely with developers to ship high-quality releases.Collaborate with the Product Lead and CTO to shape and scope features for each 8-week release cycle.Make informed tradeoffs — balancing simplicity, technical feasibility, and long-term sustainability.Coordinate development progress and ensure features are delivered, QA'd, documented, and ready to go.Drive continuous improvement based on customer feedback, usage data, and community input.What We're Looking ForHands-on, startup-minded PM comfortable working without heavy process or structure.Strong technical understanding — ideally with exposure to infrastructure automation or orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, or similar).Excellent communication and clarity in writing — specs, product decisions, and public-facing documentation.Full ownership mentality. You iterate quickly based on feedback and don't wait to be told what to do.Experience or familiarity with open-source development — comfortable writing publicly and discussing product changes in GitHub repositories.Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across time zones.Bonus PointsPast experience as a software or infrastructure engineer.Experience in a B2B software or open-source company.Exposure to SaaS products, especially self-serve or platform-oriented.Familiarity with developer communities and how they adopt tools.What You GetReal ownership in a globally distributed, technical team.Direct exposure to product strategy and company priorities.A product used for mission-critical workloads — not demos.Competitive compensation, equity, and health insurance.Originally posted on Himalayas