Product Manager, Spectro Cloud

• This role is ideal for a hands-on, technically strong PM who enjoys digging into details, collaborating deeply with engineers, and shipping meaningful improvements for real users
• You LOVE technology because you’re curious, and you enjoy working on complex systems where small decisions have large downstream impact
• 3–7+ years of product management experience, ideally with infrastructure or platform products
• Strong experience building horizontal platform capabilities
• A solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native systems
• Deep empathy for operators managing systems at scale
• Comfort owning cross-cutting, platform-level product areas
• Strong product judgment and ability to make tradeoffs
• Excellent collaboration skills with engineering and design
• A bias toward outcomes, not just feature delivery
• We don’t expect candidates to check every box, but if you’re excited about driving the future of Kubernetes platforms, we encourage you to apply!

Desirable

• We’re building Palette, our Kubernetes management platform designed for technical practitioners—platform teams, DevOps engineers, and system administrators running Kubernetes at scale across cloud and on-prem environments
• We’re looking for a Product Manager to lead fleet and platform management capabilities—the common foundation that powers all clusters, across all environments
• This role focuses on the horizontal platform layer of Palette: the shared capabilities that make large-scale Kubernetes operations reliable, observable, scalable, and usable—regardless of where clusters run
• You’ll own the core product experience and operational foundations that every user depends on, every day
• You’ll shape product areas related to, including:
• Managing Kubernetes fleets at scale
• Consistent, reliable day-2 operations
• Platform-wide usability, performance, and scale
• Cross-cutting concerns that apply to every cluster and user
• Foundations that enable other product areas to move faster
• This includes defining how users:
• Operate and maintain large numbers of clusters
• Apply changes safely and consistently
• Monitor health, drift, and compliance
• Discover, manage, and act on resources at scale
• Trust the platform as it grows in size and complexity
• Owning the product direction and execution for fleet-level and platform-wide capabilities
• Defining and evolving shared abstractions, workflows, and UX patterns used across the product
• Translating operator and platform team needs into clear product requirements and priorities
• Owning and shaping backlogs for your product areas, and partnering day-to-day with engineering to clarify requirements, make tradeoffs, and drive high-quality delivery
• Collaborating with other PMs to ensure consistency across cloud, edge, and environment-specific experiences
• Ensuring the platform performs reliably at scale as customers grow to hundreds or thousands of clusters
• Supporting releases and adoption through feature descriptions, documentation inputs, demos, and collaboration with Field, Support, and Customer Success
• What You'll Drive
• Fleet-scale user experiences and workflows
• Platform-wide consistency and usability
• Cross-cutting product standards and patterns
• Reliability, performance, and scale outcomes
• Alignment between product, engineering, and UX on shared foundations
• This role shapes the core of the Palette platform. The quality of fleet management, usability, and scale directly determines customer success as they grow
• You’ll define the foundations that every other product area builds on

• Our time is valuable, so we want to ensure we respect it and the effort you put into the hiring process
• Our interview process typically comprises three to four stages:
• Initial screening interview - A two-way conversation to see if we’re a good fit for each other
• Product management interview - Meet a future teammate who will assess your PM skills and domain expertise
• Engineering interview - Chat with our engineers to evaluate technical collaboration and feasibility
• Culture/Team Interview - A discussion on teamwork, values, and culture fit
• (If needed) Additional interviews - Depending on progress, we may schedule additional discussions
• We appreciate your commitment and look forward to getting to know you!