Principal Product Manager, Docker
$280-300k
+ Equity
App development platform
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App development platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$280-300k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify the lives of developers building world-changing apps.
Role
Who you are
- To thrive in this role, you’ll need experience working with developers and a technical knowledge of developer tools
- You’ll need to know how to work with the developer community and understand the lifecycle of software development, the software supply chain and how AI agents are safely orchestrated and deployed with sandboxes
- You’ll need a relentless drive to try new things, and an eye for detail. Your long-term success will depend on your ability to own the product roadmap and collaborate with the developer community, and scale our services
- Most importantly, you’ll need to be okay with taking ownership of big objectives with big goals, working with a cross-functional team, and maintaining a bias for action
- You have deep empathy for the needs of developers and are obsessed with talking to your users
- You have created and deployed AI agents at scale and dealt with all the challenges and pain points of such tasks
- You are comfortable interacting with a command-line interface
- You have experience building B2B, SaaS or have a background in Public Cloud
- You have experience working with tools in the software supply chain and/or software security
- You can break down complex technical problems into small, release-able, user valuable features
- You can explain complex ideas simply and communicate across diverse stakeholders
- You have effective written, verbal, and visual communication skills
- You can analyze data, both qualitative and quantitative, to inform decision making
- You have a collaborative approach and ability to work with fast moving, distributed, cross-functional teams
- You have experience running products at various stages of maturity, from legacy to greenfield
- You are a doer as well as a strategist. We are small and need all hands on deck
What the job involves
- The Products Team at Docker is looking for a Principal Product Manager for our core Sandbox platform. You will own and drive an investment and product area from high-level concept design to delivery and operation
- You will help shape the future of a key area of Docker. You will work closely with developers inside and outside of Docker, our customers, as well as our partners to expand our open ecosystem offering and provide value. As the company and ecosystem grows, you will help to foster teams eager to continuously build, measure, and learn
- You own a product area, the long-term vision, the roadmap, the revenue, and the results
- You believe in and can articulate succinctly, our customers and their pain points. You empathize and understand the world they live in and the constraints they work through
- You will engage deeply with developers and find amazing solutions that solve today's problems while optimizing for tomorrow's vision
- You enjoy building products that are easy to adopt and use. You have a keen design sensibility, and you are always looking for ways to improve the usability of your products
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and will guide product definition, feature prioritization, and scope, in concert with cross functional teams
- You’re a fan of iterative development, working with our customers as well as cross-functional teams to hypothesize, measure impact, and learn from previous releases to iterate on future roadmap plans
- First 30 days:
- Get to know Docker! Vision, mission, values
- Understand the team and business unit’s mission
- Meet the team along with peers across the business unit and company
- Work closely with designers, researchers and engineers to get to know our user’s needs and current pain points
- Work with your Manager and team to review and create quarterly goals
- Understand your product’s roadmap and what data is available to make data driven decisions
- First 90 days:
- Understand the company’s and business unit’s product vision and how it relates to your team’s objectives
- Provide clarity of product vision to your team and how your team contributes to the overall success of the company and business unit
- Develop deep understanding of our developers and customers and why they love Docker
- Shape your team roadmap and vision in close collaboration with design and engineering peers
- Lead the definition of the team OKRs for the quarter and provide progress reports
- One Year Outlook:
- Lead product initiatives across cross-functional teams to create value for our users
- Drive the long term direction of your product including contributions to ARR
Our take
Docker supplies a hub and desktop solution to simplify the workflow of app development teams. Originally known for popularising the idea of containerising software, it saw itself outpaced by Kubernetes. However, the company has identified a problem with the growing complexity of containerisation, with some apps consisting of dozens or even hundreds of containers - which is what it now addresses.
Docker has had a difficult time in the past, with 2019 seeing it sell off its enterprise business, reduce its workforce by hundreds, and change its leadership team. As a well known brand and ecosystem for containerisation, however, it aims to lure developers back to its product as well as to take advantage of the growing global demand for app development.
Returning to focus on developers rather than large companies was certainly a gamble, but one that seems to have paid off. The company has returned to profitability and raised Series C funding in 2022, which has been used to hire new talent, ramping up its business, and continuing to develop and refine its product. On top of this bounce back to success, it's also embarked on a series of acquisitions to bolster its business.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
47% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2022
$105m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$23m
SERIES B
Total funding: $526m
Company benefits
- 100% company paid medical premiums for employees and dependents
- Flexible Time Off Policy
- Employer Paid Holidays
- Generous Parental Leave (after 6 months of employment)
- Home Office Set Up Budget
- Monthly Technology Stipend
- Training Allowances
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Retirement Plans
- Virtual and In-Person Social Events
- Docker Swag
- Quarterly Hackathons
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Don Johnson
(CEO)Prior to joining Docker in 2025, Don spent nearly 9 years at Oracle in various Engineering/VP roles. Before that, they spent over 7 years at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer and Principal Engineer.
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