[Hiring] Product Manager (Kubernetes / Ansible / IaC) @Spacelift

Role Description

Spacelift is looking for a Product Manager to help shape and deliver products for teams using Kubernetes or Ansible in production. You will own a defined product area from customer discovery through delivery, launch, and adoption. Working with Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Support, you will:

• Identify important customer problems
• Decide where to invest
• Turn validated opportunities into products customers use

This role is a strong fit for a product manager with technical domain experience or someone moving into product management from platform engineering, DevOps, solutions engineering, technical product ownership, or a similar role. You need hands-on production experience with either Kubernetes or Ansible . Expertise in both is not required, but you should understand core infrastructure-as-code workflows and how they relate to your area.

What you'll do

• Speak regularly with platform engineers, DevOps teams, infrastructure leaders, prospects, and customers.
• Study production workflows to understand problems involving governance, coordination, visibility, reliability, and adoption.
• Combine customer interviews with product usage, support cases, commercial feedback, and market research to identify the problems worth solving.
• Define product requirements, success measures, and clear recommendations using tools such as 5 Questions, PR/FAQs, specifications, and decision records.
• Prioritize work based on customer value, strategic fit, effort, risk, and potential learning.
• Work with Design to explore, prototype, validate, and refine solutions.
• Partner with the Engineering Manager on scope and trade-offs while Engineering leads architecture and technical execution.
• Work with the Director of New Product Development on product direction, major investment decisions, and the path to market.
• Coordinate launch readiness with Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Support.
• Review adoption and customer feedback after release, then decide whether to improve, expand, or stop the work.
• Build and apply working knowledge of Spacelift, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, policy, cloud infrastructure, and our execution engine, including how your product area connects with existing IaC workflows.

Qualifications

• Product management experience or relevant experience in platform engineering, DevOps, solutions engineering, technical support, product analysis, or technical product ownership.
• Hands-on production experience with one of the following:
• Kubernetes: Argo CD, Flux, Helm, operators, cluster management, or application delivery.
• Ansible: AWX or Automation Controller, inventories, job templates, execution environments, or automation workflows.
• The ability to explain how these tools work and where teams encounter operational or organizational challenges.
• Working familiarity with Terraform or OpenTofu and core IaC workflows, including Git-based changes, plan and apply, state, policy, and drift.
• Experience identifying user problems, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative evidence, and turning findings into clear product decisions.
• Strong written communication and the ability to work directly with engineers and technical customers.
• Good judgment, curiosity, and a willingness to change direction when the evidence supports it.
• Strong written and spoken English (B2 or above).
• Based in Europe.

Nice to have

• Experience with both Kubernetes and Ansible.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, OPA/Rego, CI/CD, RBAC, audit systems, or internal developer platforms.
• Experience in B2B SaaS or developer tools.
• Familiarity with Working Backwards, 5 Questions, or another evidence-led product practice.
• Experience using SQL, product analytics, or AI tools for research and analysis.

Benefits

• Innovative Culture: Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management’s future.
• Growth Opportunities: Be a key player in driving Spacelift’s business and AWS partnership to new heights.
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packages.
• Collaborative Team: Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partners.

Our values

• We build for CUSTOMERS
• We RESPECT each other
• We take OWNERSHIP seriously
• We succeed through COLLABORATION
• We embrace SPARK & WONDER

Join Us! At Spacelift, you won’t just be working on a technical product - you’ll be part of a team shaping the future of DevOps. Apply to contribute to a platform loved by its users and take your career to the next level!