Product Manager

About Kestra Kestra 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 Cr dit 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 Role We'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 Do • Own 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 For • Hands-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 Points • Past 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 Get • Real 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