Staff Product Manager

• Set the vision and roadmap. Define and drive the strategy for APC, starting with the near-term goal of reaching feature parity with Astro Hosted.
• Write the requirements. Specify a complex distributed platform that serves platform administrators, platform engineers, data engineers and AI teams.
• Build alongside engineering. Work with R&D from design through release, including the infrastructure decisions that shape the product: Kubernetes, cloud environments, multi-tenancy and observability.
• Listen to our most strategic customers. Engage executives and technical leaders on their security, compliance, certification and central-management needs, and use what you learn to prioritize.
• Balance the few and the many. Weigh specific customer demands against a committed roadmap that serves the broader customer base. Push back where necessary, and work with forward-deployed engineers to deliver custom requirements.
• Enable go-to-market teams. Support product marketing and sales with customer-focused messaging and content.
• Be the voice of APC. Represent the product externally through conferences, webinars and written content.

• Staff-level product experience. 8–9 years of product roles at enterprise data or infrastructure companies, with demonstrated experience driving product strategy and delivering impactful outcomes.
• Technical depth. You can engage as a peer with engineering partners across R&D.
• Platform knowledge. Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and the modern data stack.
• Experience with demanding technical users. You've handled large, complex requests and have the judgment to weigh them against the product's overall roadmap.
• Customer-facing presence. You're comfortable with executives and can turn customer input, product data and industry trends into a data-driven roadmap.
• A bias to action. A record of delivering the product vision you set across multiple R&D teams.
• Strong communication. You work well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Public voice. You're comfortable speaking and writing publicly about technical products.

• 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

The estimated total compensation for this role ranges from $230,000 - $300,000, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package. This range is merely an estimate, and the width of the range reflects willingness to consider candidates with broad prior seniority. Actual compensation may deviate from this range based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

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