Product Manager - Core Systems

InRule•Chicago, IL

15h

About The Position

You will own the platform strategy for InRule’s core systems, ensuring the underlying capabilities of the product evolve to meet measurable customer outcomes identified through our Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI) practice. This role blends platform strategy with developer- and IT-focused feature ownership. You will partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Product to ensure the platform: Aligns to prioritized customer jobs and desired outcomes Enables AI-native workflows and integrations Serves both business users and the Product Lifecycle Support Team (IT) Supports durable growth across deployment models The Challenge InRule operates across multi-tenant SaaS and emerging containerized environments, while continuing to support long-standing on-premise customers in high-reliability enterprise systems. As AI reshapes integration patterns and developer expectations, we must: Modernize delivery across SaaS and self-hosted containers Provide clear, low-risk migration paths from legacy deployments Unify infrastructure from acquired products into a coherent platform Improve governance, observability, and operational visibility for IT teams Evolve APIs, SDKs and integrations to support developers, partners, and AI-driven systems Align pricing and packaging with measurable platform usage The challenge is balancing long-term architectural coherence with customer trust, commercial realities, and ODI-validated needs.

Requirements

5–10+ years in B2B SaaS product management, including experience with systems, platforms, or infrastructure-oriented products
Prior experience as a software engineer, architect, or highly technical product leader
Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, SaaS architecture, and containerized environments
Experience working with developer and enterprise IT personas
Ability to connect product strategy to measurable customer and business outcomes

Nice To Haves

Experience modernizing legacy enterprise software or migrating customers to new architectures
Exposure to usage-based or consumption-aligned pricing models
Experience integrating or rationalizing acquired products into a unified platform
Background in high-reliability or regulated environments

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the strategy for InRule’s core systems including runtime, storage, APIs, integrations, governance, and deployment models
Translate ODI research into durable product capabilities that measurably improve outcomes for developers and the Product Lifecycle Support Team (IT)
Drive the evolution of SaaS and self-hosted container delivery, including regional hosting and environment management
Establish clear migration frameworks that allow customers to move from legacy onpremise deployments to modern architectures safely and predictably
Unify core infrastructure and capabilities across acquired products into a coherent platform foundation
Own API and SDK strategy to maximize extensibility, partner enablement, and AI integration readiness
Improve telemetry, usage instrumentation, and operational visibility to support enterprise governance and consumption-aligned pricing models
Partner with the AI and Data Product Manager to ensure runtime, integration, and delivery capabilities support AI-driven product evolution
Identify and prioritize platform investments that increase internal engineering velocity and reduce architectural fragmentation

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits.
Flexible work environment.
The opportunity to build and shape a premium support function with measurable customer impact.
A collaborative culture with close partnership across Support, Engineering, Product, and Customer Success.
Professional growth within a scaling SaaS organization.

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