Staff Product Manager, Astronomer
$240-270k
OTE
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Data orchestration platform
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Data orchestration platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$240-270k
OTE
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help companies build, run, and observe their data pipelines.
Role
Who you are
- Ideally, you have prior experience working on Platform teams (both product-driven and infrastructure-driven) for other SaaS/PaaS products and are execution oriented: you are able to set a compelling product vision and then deliver on it with predictability
- 8-9 years of experience with SaaS/PaaS product management
- A technical focus, being able to engage as a peer with engineering partners across R&D
- A Bias to action, allowing you to deliver on the product vision you set for a group of teams within R&D
- Experience working with highly technical users who have big, sensible demands – and balancing that against a committed roadmap for our product story overall
- Experience being customer facing, and the ability to synthesize information from. customers, product data, and industry trends into an actionable, data-driven roadmap
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Confident problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with a track record of turning data into insights and action
Desirable
- Experience delivering products in the data space, with a particular focus on APIs, authentication, billing and high fidelity/availability systems
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow or other modern data tools
- Interest or passion for open source projects and communities
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead the strategic direction and development of our platform team for Astro, our flagship product
- You will closely collaborate with engineering, sales, and customer teams to deliver innovative solutions that solve complex data problems for some of the largest & most advanced companies in the world
- Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our platform team, which owns the Management Layer and Control Infrastructure of our SaaS data orchestration product, Astro
- Engage deeply with our most strategic customers and customer facing teams to understand use cases and pain points, using evidence from that engagement to define a product roadmap for your team, in collaboration with our broader product and R&D organisation
- Develop detailed use-cases and product requirements, working closely with the engineering team through the design, development, and release processes
- Support product marketing and sales enablement to craft customer-focused messaging and content
Our take
Developing data pipelines is essential for modern businesses to stay competitive, but building them can be a slow process. Workflow management tools for data engineering pipelines such as Apache Airflow makes the development process significantly simpler, but managing it manually is still a repetitive, convoluted, and time-consuming process.
Astronomer provides a data orchestration platform called Astro powered by Apache Airflow, aiming to automate its data pipeline management processes, unify data flows, and ultimately help businesses to access the software's full potential without DevOps. The company claims that its collaborative system helps teams to build data pipelines faster, increase data availability, ensure runtime environments are reliable within cloud infrastructures, and provide a holistic overview of business data.
Whilst it is undeniable that the company faces competition from other data orchestration platforms, Astronomer has been smart to recognize the presence of inefficiencies in Apache Airflow, despite its great potential. The company is thus providing solutions to improve it, not replace it, a unique perspective that shows great potential for Astronomer to disrupt the market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2025
$93m
SERIES D
Mar 2022
$213m
SERIES C
Total funding: $372.8m
Company benefits
- Remote friendly, work from anywhere
- If you’re in a city with an office, it’s there (and stocked with snacks) when you need it
- Co-workers in over 40 states and 15 countries around the world
- Health, dental, and vision insurance at little to no cost for individuals, and at competitive rates for your dependents
- Disability and life insurance policies in case something happens
- Unlimited vacation - we do track vacation days and actively encourage people to take it (on average, Astronomers take 20 days of vacation per year)
- Parental leave
- Laptop of your choice, and a stipend to help with your work-from-home setup
- Monthly $170 pre-tax stipend intended to cover your cellphone and WiFi bills
- Yearly internal summit for all employees
- Regular access to conferences, workshops, and meetups in the ecosystem
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Greg Neiheisel
(Co-founder)Software Engineer for Great American Insurance from 2011 to 2013. Experience as Founder and CTO of USERcycle.
Tim Brunk
(Co-founder)Co-founder of Cladwell since 2012 and of Ocean Accelerator since 2014. Founder of MetaRouter since 2018.
Pete DeJoy
(CEO & Co-founder)Fellow at Venture for America since 2016. Has held many roles at the company, including SVP of Product and CPO, becoming CEO in 2025.
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