Director of Product

Prefect

10d•$191,000 - $276,000•Remote

About The Position

Prefect builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms -- Prefect OSS, Prefect Cloud, FastMCP OSS, and Horizon -- used for mission-critical workloads. Our Vision: Prefect will define automation for the context era. Our Mission: Curate an intelligent context layer that delivers the right information at the right time. About Prefect Prefect builds automation for an unpredictable world. The last decade of automation was about protecting workflows from unpredictability; in the agentic era, unpredictability is the point. Our mission is to give people confidence in automated work, whether that work is a mission-critical data pipeline or a fleet of AI agents. In August 2026, Prefect and Dagster, competitors for eight years, joined forces to build the next generation of automation infrastructure. Today, our ecosystem includes Dagster, the data platform; Prefect, the agent platform; and FastMCP, the leading open-source developer framework for the MCP ecosystem. Together, our open-source and commercial products are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, data innovators, and high-growth technology companies around the world. We think of our culture as the operating system of the company. We’ve carefully created a supportive, high-performance environment that empowers our team to do the best work of their careers, have meaningful impact, and continue growing personally and professionally. We’re a remote-first team that values high standards, ownership, and thoughtful collaboration.

Requirements

10+ years in product, with real product management experience at the leadership level — you've owned multi-team roadmaps, driven tough prioritization decisions and shipped through others without direct authority over them.
You've operated in start-ups and engineering-led orgs. You know how to carry product weight through influence, without a PM org or a reporting line over the people building.
You synthesize across domains. Multi-product portfolios, platform/product tension, or post-acquisition integration experience is a strong signal.
Deep familiarity with the modern data stack, orchestration, or developer tools.
You've made other people better at product.

Nice To Haves

Bonus for hands-on experience with agentic systems or MCP.

Responsibilities

Own product cohesion across the portfolio - how Dagster, Prefect, and FastMCP fit together, where they overlap, where they deliberately don't, and where the whole is going.
Build our product discovery practice - user conversations, customer signal, and problem validation. You don't run every conversation yourself but you set the standard for how discovery gets done, facilitate it across surfaces, and coach engineers to run their own user conversations well. You'll be a key partner to engineers in framing problems and help ground what we choose to build in customer evidence.
Coach the product side of our product engineers - our model asks engineers to carry real product judgment, and you raise that bar across the org helping engineers to frame problems, weigh evidence, talk to users, and decide what not to build.
Design and own the system for measuring the success of what we ship. This includes defining what "it worked" means and the practice of validating after launch. You make sure that post launch validation happens and happens honestly. And that what we learn feeds back into what we build next.