Senior Product Manager - Fleet and Lifecycle Management

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

This is a high-visibility, cross-functional role. You'll partner with multiple engineering teams and be responsible for defining and delivering a coherent, unified fleet experience across UI, API, and MCP for customers.

What it asks for · 8

• 5+ years of product management experience, with a track record of owning complex, technical, cross-product capability.
• Experience shipping infrastructure, DevOps, IT operations, or observability/monitoring products, ideally involving fleet management, configuration management, or software lifecycle/deployment tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to build product direction across multiple engineering teams with differing priorities, and to drive alignment without direct authority.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, defining scope and sequencing capabilities that deliver customer value incrementally.
• Strong technical fluency; you don't need to write code, but you should be comfortable discussing architecture trade-offs with engineers.
• Experience designing products for emerging AI-agent/automation use cases is a strong plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; you can distill a sprawling, multi-team initiative into a clear narrative for different audiences.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Also a plus

• Experience with Kubernetes-based deployment models and operator patterns.
• Experience with remote configuration or feature-flagging infrastructure at scale.
• Familiarity with BYOC (bring-your-own-cloud) or customer-hosted software deployment models.

What the job covers

• Own and evolve the product vision and roadmap for a unified fleet and lifecycle management capability spanning multiple product lines and deployment models.
• Define what "managed" means for each new software component as it's brought into fleet, balancing consistency of experience with the realities of each component's operational model.
• Drive a phased expansion plan, sequencing new components into fleet based on customer value, technical complexity, and dependency readiness.
• Partner closely with engineering leads across several teams to align on shared architecture principles to support disparate software components.
• Represent the voice of the customer for a capability that must work equally well for human operators using a UI and for AI agents/automated tooling operating programmatically.
• Build the business case, define success metrics, and communicate roadmap and trade-offs to engineering, design, sales, and executive stakeholders.
• Stay closely connected to customers and design partners to validate priorities and de-risk major roadmap bets.

Degree language

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• customer8×
• experience8×
• product8×
• fleet7×
• capability6×
• software6×
• components5×
• management5×
• engineering4×
• value4×
• build3×
• deployment models3×
• infrastructure3×
• partner3×
• roadmap3×
• running3×

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