Senior Principal Product Manager, AI & Agent Platform

Docker • Seattle, WA

2d • $300,000 - $340,000 • Remote

About The Position

Docker is seeking a Senior Principal Product Manager to define the product strategy and roadmap for a new AI & Agent Platform. This is a 0-to-1 role focused on building a platform at the intersection of AI, containers, and developer experience. The role requires a hands-on approach, comfortable with prototyping and iterating in a fast-paced, remote-first environment. The platform aims to enable secure autonomous workflows, making AI agents trustworthy collaborators for software development and operations across organizations. The position will involve defining secure execution environments, agent-to-tool connectivity, governance controls, and the infrastructure for safe human-agent collaboration at enterprise scale. The product manager will work with a cross-functional team to ship, learn, and iterate on new products, building on the early success of Docker Sandboxes.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 5 years on developer tools, infrastructure, or platform products.
• Deep technical fluency. You can read an architecture diagram, understand container and VM runtimes, and have a working knowledge of how AI agents, LLMs, and protocol-level tool connectivity work. You don’t need to be a hypervisor engineer, but you need to hold your own with one.
• Proven ability to ship 0-to-1 products. You have taken a product from idea through launch in a fast-moving environment. You know how to operate when there is no playbook.
• Builder mentality. You prototype, you sketch architectures, you test early ideas with customers before the spec is done. You are a doer, not just a thinker.
• Strong product sense and UX instincts. You care about the developer experience at a deep level — from API design to CLI ergonomics to error messages.
• Strategic thinking with execution follow-through. You can set a multi-year vision and also write the spec for what ships next sprint.
• Comfort with ambiguity. This space is new and moving fast. You thrive when the answer isn’t obvious and you have to go find it.
• Excellent communication. You can write a crisp product brief, present to executives, and debate technical tradeoffs with engineers — all in the same day.
• Experience growing and monetizing products at scale. You have been part of taking a product from early adoption to meaningful revenue, and you understand the pricing, packaging, and go-to-market decisions that make that happen.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building products in the containers, cloud-native, or DevOps space
• Experience with AI/ML developer tooling or the agentic AI ecosystem
• Contributions to open source projects
• Experience building and scaling a business from zero to significant ARR

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy. Define the vision, roadmap, and success metrics for Docker’s AI & Agent Platform. Make hard tradeoff decisions about what to build, what to defer, and what to cut.
• Build from zero. This is a new platform. You will define the product from the ground up — writing the first specs, prototyping with engineering, validating with customers, and iterating rapidly based on what you learn.
• Drive from conception through delivery. Write requirements, work with engineering to scope and prioritize, ship iteratively, and measure outcomes. You don’t hand off specs and wait — you are in the details.
• Define how pieces of the agentic ecosystem fit together. Agents need secure execution, tool connectivity, model access, governance, and observability. You will define how these capabilities compose into a coherent platform — and where Docker’s boundaries are.
• Think beyond developers. Agents are becoming essential for everyone who builds, deploys, and operates software. You will ensure the platform serves the full range of people who need agents to succeed — from individual developers to platform teams to enterprise operators.
• Define the developer experience. Work with design and engineering to ensure that our AI products are intuitive, powerful, and meet people where they are — whether in the CLI, IDE, or CI pipeline.
• Collaborate across Docker. You will work cross-functionally to ensure coherent product experiences and go-to-market alignment.
• Influence technical direction. Partner with engineering leadership on architecture decisions. You don’t need to write the code, but you need to understand the technical tradeoffs and have informed opinions about them.
• Represent the customer. Engage directly with developers, enterprises, and partners. Bring their voice into every product decision.
• Overcome blockers. When something is in the way — a missing integration, an unclear market signal, a technical constraint — you figure out a path forward. You don’t wait for someone else to solve the problem.

Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
• Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
• 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
• Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
• PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
• Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
• Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
• Docker Swag
• Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed