Senior/Principal Product Manager, Open Source

Pulumi•Seattle, WA

10d•Remote

About The Position

Pulumi is seeking a deeply technical Product Manager to own the roadmap for Pulumi Core (engine, CLI, SDKs) and the Providers ecosystem. This role is crucial for shaping the future of cloud engineering. The ideal candidate will thrive at the intersection of CLI and developer UX craft, deep technical product thinking, and open source community leadership. Pulumi is a remote-first company, and this role is preferably located remotely in Seattle, WA.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or technical program management, with significant time spent on developer tools or infrastructure products.
Experience building developer tools or platforms (CLI, SDKs, APIs, infrastructure products).
Strong intuition for CLI and terminal UX — you have opinions about good error messages, sensible defaults, progressive disclosure, and when interactivity helps vs. gets in the way.
Experience working with or shipping in open source — whether as a maintainer, contributor, or PM on an OSS product — and comfort operating in public. Your roadmaps, decisions, and tradeoffs will be visible to a large community, and you're energized rather than drained by that.
Hands-on familiarity with modern cloud technologies (containers, Kubernetes, serverless, cloud APIs).
Strong technical instincts with the ability to work closely with senior engineers and reason about architectural tradeoffs.
Proven ability to ramp quickly in new technical domains and form strong product opinions.
Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products in ambiguous or complex problem spaces.
Experience working cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Support in a product-led growth environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
A commitment to building inclusive, collaborative teams.

Nice To Haves

Background as a maintainer or significant contributor to a well-known open source project.
Background in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
Familiarity with IaC tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane, CDK) and a point of view on what Pulumi does differently.
Experience speaking at conferences or representing a product publicly to a technical audience.

Responsibilities

Own the product roadmap for Pulumi Core (engine, CLI, SDKs) and the Providers ecosystem, partnering with engineering to balance long-term architectural bets with near-term community needs.
Obsess over CLI and developer UX — the small frictions that compound over thousands of pulumi up runs, the error messages that make or break trust, the defaults that shape how people think about infrastructure.
Understand how agents use our product, and create agent-ready interfaces.
Engage directly with the Pulumi community — contributing to community-sourced GitHub issues, joining community calls, participating in Slack discussions, and turning real user pain into roadmap priorities.
Build in public: shape RFCs, write roadmap posts, and represent Pulumi's open source direction to contributors, customers, and the broader cloud-native ecosystem.
Partner with the providers team on the strategy for our large provider ecosystem — what we build first-party, where we invest in tooling for contributors, and how we keep coverage broad and quality high.
Translate enterprise customer needs into open source product decisions without compromising what makes Pulumi loved by individual developers.
Define success metrics that work for OSS (adoption, contribution velocity, issue resolution time, community health) alongside traditional product metrics, and feed insights directly back into roadmap decisions.
Drive end-to-end product delivery from idea to GA and adoption by collaborating with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Support, and the open-source community.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees.
Unlimited PTO policy (with a requirement to take at least three weeks off annually).
13 U.S. holidays.
401(k) plan with an employer match for U.S. employees.
20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents or primary caregivers.
16 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents or secondary caregivers.
Support for flexible work with asynchronous collaboration.
Annual “work from anywhere” stipend.
Annual learning and development budget.
Equity ownership for all employees.
Monthly wellness fund.
Quarterly happiness fund for team connection.