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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pulumi is the cloud infrastructure platform engineers love and enterprises trust, helping teams build, secure, and operate modern cloud applications. The role of Senior/Principal Product Manager involves owning the product roadmap for Pulumi Core and the Providers ecosystem, focusing on developer experience and community engagement.ResponsibilitiesOwn 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 needsObsess 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 interfacesEngage 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 prioritiesBuild in public: shape RFCs, write roadmap posts, and represent Pulumi's open source direction to contributors, customers, and the broader cloud-native ecosystemPartner 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 highTranslate enterprise customer needs into open source product decisions without compromising what makes Pulumi loved by individual developersDefine 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 decisionsDrive end-to-end product delivery from idea to GA and adoption by collaborating with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Support, and the open-source communitySkills7+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or technical program management, with significant time spent on developer tools or infrastructure productsExperience 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 wayExperience 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 thatHands-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 opinionsDemonstrated ability to ship high-quality products in ambiguous or complex problem spacesExperience working cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Support in a product-led growth environmentExcellent written and verbal communication skillsA commitment to building inclusive, collaborative teamsBackground as a maintainer or significant contributor to a well-known open source projectBackground in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineeringFamiliarity with IaC tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane, CDK) and a point of view on what Pulumi does differentlyExperience speaking at conferences or representing a product publicly to a technical audienceBenefitsWe offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees. Internationally, we comply with local healthcare requirements and provide regionally appropriate coverage.Our unlimited PTO policy encourages balance and rest — and we require employees to take at least three weeks off annually, plus 13 U.S. holidays.U.S. employees are eligible for a 401(k) plan with an employer match to support long-term financial wellness.We provide 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents or primary caregivers, and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents or secondary caregivers.Pulumi has been fully remote since 2020, with teammates across 20+ U.S. states and 12+ countries. We support flexible work with asynchronous collaboration and an annual “work from anywhere” stipend.Every employee receives an annual learning and development budget to support growth, learning, and career goals.All employees receive equity and are empowered to think big, move fast, and build the future of cloud together.We offer a monthly wellness fund to support mental and physical well-being, and a quarterly happiness fund for team connection.Company OverviewPulumi is a cloud engineering company that offers a way to build, connect, and run modern cloud applications. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is H1B SponsorshipPulumi has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.   Apply To this Job

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