Principal Product Manager

CloudBees•Denver, CO

17d•Remote

About The Position

About CloudBees CloudBees helps organizations build, run, and govern software factories, giving enterprises the confidence to ship software better, faster, and safer. Writing code is no longer the bottleneck. Governing what reaches production and validating its impact is. As enterprises adopt agentic coding, software is created faster than most teams can review, secure, and validate. Without consistent governance, organizations risk shipping code they cannot explain, audit, or trust. CloudBees addresses this challenge without asking teams to replace the tools they already use. Across every toolchain a customer runs, CloudBees makes each change, human or AI, visible, auditable, and accountable before it reaches production. CloudBees Unify is the product behind this: a governance layer, with context and control-plane capabilities, that enforces consistent policy and evidence across every tool, team, and workflow. Founded in 2010, CloudBees is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bridgepoint Capital, HSBC, Golub Capital, Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Visit us at www.cloudbees.com . Requirements About the Role We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to help accelerate our product strategy at CloudBees. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role at the intersection of AI, developer tooling, and enterprise software delivery. You will define and drive the roadmap for Unify Release Orchestration, coordinating multi-service, multi-environment releases across the tools customers already run, working closely with engineering, design, GTM, and customers. You will set the bar for developer experience, and represent the product with executives and enterprise customers alike. This role is ideally based on the West Coast. We want someone who has shipped shipped CD, deployment, or release management products — not just thought about them — and who brings both the technical depth and the executive presence to lead a product toward a meaningful, differentiated outcome.

Requirements

7+ years in product management, with 3+ years building developer-facing products (APIs, SDKs, platforms, or dev tools) and 2+ years shipping AI/ML-powered products at scale.
Experience shipping in a B2B SaaS environment serving enterprise developers, platform teams, or DevSecOps buyers.
Experience in Application Release Management, deployment automation and governance areas.
Hands-on fluency with AI native stack — you've shipped it, not just read about it.
Proven track record taking products from 0?1 inside a larger organization, and scaling them to meaningful adoption and revenue.
Strong technical depth — comfortable in architecture discussions on API design, inference cost, and integration with existing developer workflows (Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Kubernetes, ArgoCD etc.).
High bar for developer experience: clean primitives, great docs, fast time-to-value, predictable behavior in production.
Excellent written communication and executive presence; credible with engineers, customers, and the C-suite alike.
Startup mentality — comfortable with ambiguity, fast decisions, and shipping before it's perfect.
Customer Obsessed — You treat customer problems as your own and build relationships with the people behind the logo, not just the account. You can point to decisions you changed because of what a customer told you.
High Agency — You own problems beyond your job description and move without waiting to be asked. When the path isn't defined, you make the call and bring people with you rather than working around them.
Truth Seeking — You hold a strong point of view and update it when the data says otherwise. You argue for the best answer regardless of who's in the room, and once a decision is made, you commit to it fully.
Hard Work — You own the end result, not just your slice of it, and you go beyond what's expected to get there. You work smart as well as hard, and you find real reward in building something demanding alongside people who do the same.
Ship Excellence — You hold a painfully high quality bar and keep raising it, while shipping with urgency instead of waiting for perfect. Every iteration is something you learn from.
Direct Feedback — You give honest, constructive feedback regardless of seniority or tenure, and you actively ask for it in return. You deliver it with enough care that people want to hear it from you.

Responsibilities

Own the Unify release orchestration roadmap end-to-end — from strategy and prioritization through spec, launch, and iteration — for developer-facing AI-native capabilities across the CloudBees platform.
Partner with engineering to make smart decisions on release processes, deployment models and strategies, API design, and integration with existing developer tools.
Drive 0?1 product initiatives: identify the highest-leverage opportunities, build conviction, align stakeholders, and ship — before it's perfect.
Own developer experience: obsess over clean primitives, great documentation, fast time-to-value, and predictable behavior in production.
Engage directly with customers to validate problems, test assumptions, and build credibility as a domain expert.
Represent the product vision internally to the C-suite and externally to prospects, customers, and the developer community.
Write your own product specs — you are a player-coach who leads by doing.