About Kestra
Kestra is the universal orchestration platform — open source, declarative, and designed to orchestrate data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems.
Trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide — including JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, FILA, and Crédit Agricole — Kestra orchestrates mission-critical workloads at scale. The open-source project has close to 30,000 GitHub stars, hundreds of contributors, and a fast-growing global community.
The Role
We're looking for a pragmatic Product Manager who can drive features from customer problem to delivery with minimal process. This is not a "project manager" or "product owner" role — we care about shipping real value fast, not maintaining SCRUM rituals.
What You'll Do
Own the full product lifecycle: understand user problems, define technical specs, prototype (AI tools encouraged), and work closely with developers to ship high-quality releases.
Collaborate with the Product Lead and CTO to shape and scope features for each 8-week release cycle.
Make informed tradeoffs — balancing simplicity, technical feasibility, and long-term sustainability.
Coordinate development progress and ensure features are delivered, QA'd, documented, and ready to go.
Drive continuous improvement based on customer feedback, usage data, and community input.
What We're Looking For
Hands-on, startup-minded PM comfortable working without heavy process or structure.
Strong technical understanding — ideally with exposure to infrastructure automation or orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, or similar).
Excellent communication and clarity in writing — specs, product decisions, and public-facing documentation.
Full ownership mentality. You iterate quickly based on feedback and don't wait to be told what to do.
Experience or familiarity with open-source development — comfortable writing publicly and discussing product changes in GitHub repositories.
Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across time zones.
Bonus Points
Past experience as a software or infrastructure engineer.
Experience in a B2B software or open-source company.
Exposure to SaaS products, especially self-serve or platform-oriented.
Familiarity with developer communities and how they adopt tools.
What You Get
Real ownership in a globally distributed, technical team.
Direct exposure to product strategy and company priorities.
A product used for mission-critical workloads — not demos.
Competitive compensation, equity, and health insurance.
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