Staff Product Manager, Developer Tools

As the Developer Tools Product Manager at Upbound, you will play a crucial role in creating a seamless developer experience for all of Upbound's products. Your main focus will be on building control planes with Crossplane and Upbound, starting with a local developer experience and expanding to internal developer platforms. Your responsibilities will include owning the developer tooling vision, driving Crossplane adoption, managing roadmaps and product deliveries, and collaborating with the open source and product teams. With your expertise in Kubernetes and developer tools, you will help reimagine and improve the process of developing control planes for enterprise customers.

• Own the developer tooling vision for Upbound and Crossplane
• Drive overall Crossplane adoption by understanding end user needs and crafting experiences to improve building and deploying control planes
• Manage roadmaps and product deliveries for open source and commercial open core products focused on improving the developer experience
• Work with the broader Upbound product team to align roadmaps and plans

• 10+ years of product management experience
• Experience building developer tools
• Very familiar with Kubernetes and the related ecosystem
• Have a well developed opinion on things like K9s vs kubectl vs Lens vs x
• Public examples of code on Github/Gitlab (of any quality, this role isn't shipping production code)

• Ownership of the developer tooling vision for Upbound
• Significant influence on Crossplane
• Drive overall Crossplane adoption
• Identify gaps and craft experiences to drive 10x improvements in building and deploying control planes
• Manage roadmaps and product deliveries
• Improve the developer experience
• Alignment with the broader Upbound product team
• Opportunity to work remotely
• Intense commitment to building a great culture
• Emphasis on learning, growth, impact, and fun
• Inclusive and diverse work environment