Staff Product Manager

The role

You will own the product roadmap for Astro Private Cloud, a managed Apache Airflow product that regulated companies run inside their own infrastructure. You will set strategy, write requirements, work with engineering, and engage with the largest customers.

What you will do

• Set the vision and roadmap for APC, starting with feature parity with Astro Hosted.
• Write requirements for a complex distributed platform used by platform admins, platform engineers, data engineers and AI teams.
• Work with R&D from design through release, including Kubernetes, cloud, multi-tenancy and observability decisions.
• Engage executives and technical leaders on security, compliance, certification and central-management needs.
• Balance specific customer demands against the committed roadmap for the broader customer base.
• Work with forward-deployed engineers to deliver custom requirements.
• Support product marketing and sales with customer-focused messaging and content.
• Represent the product externally through conferences, webinars and written content.

Required qualifications

• 8-9 years of product roles at enterprise data or infrastructure companies.
• Demonstrated experience driving product strategy and delivering impactful outcomes.
• Technical depth to engage as a peer with engineering partners.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and the modern data stack.
• Experience handling large, complex requests from demanding technical users.
• Comfort with executives; can turn customer input and product data into a data-driven roadmap.
• A record of delivering product vision across multiple R&D teams.
• Strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable speaking and writing publicly about technical products.

Nice to have

• Experience with on-premise or self-hosted enterprise software, or with customers in regulated industries such as finance and healthcare.
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow.
• Background in security, compliance and certification requirements for enterprise platforms.
• Experience with open-source projects and communities.

Benefits

• Equity component.
• Comprehensive benefits package.

Before you apply

• The posting does not list a sponsorship or work-authorization rule.

About the company

Astronomer is the company behind Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow. It says more than 900 large enterprises trust the platform.