[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @Gradle Technologies

Role Description

You are an experienced and passionate B2B Senior Product Manager with a proven track record of leading strategy, roadmap, and delivery in the DevOps Toolchain and Build Artifacts space. You have honed your skills at an industry-leading developer tooling company.

• Deep understanding of software provenance, attestation, and supply chain governance.
• Fluent in compliance frameworks such as SLSA.
• Experience defining product requirements for provenance data collection across the build process.
• Strong sense of the full customer lifecycle, from initial discovery through adoption and long-term value realization.
• Keen instinct for translating customer needs and market trends into product decisions that accelerate time-to-value.
• Strong cross-functional collaborator, comfortable working with engineering, sales, and marketing.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Vision:
  • Define and articulate a clear product vision, strategy, and roadmap for provenance and supply chain governance.
  • Conduct thorough market research, competitive analysis, and customer interviews.
  • Develop business cases for new product initiatives.
• AI Integration:
  • Establish the product direction for how AI agents and autonomous workflows interact with provenance and compliance.
  • Collaborate with the AI strategy team to identify opportunities for AI-driven provenance capabilities.
  • Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape.
• Requirements & Prioritization:
  • Gather, analyze, and prioritize product requirements from all stakeholders.
  • Translate high-level business requirements into prioritized functional requirements.
  • Make pragmatic roadmap prioritization decisions.
• Go-to-market:
  • Work with sales and marketing to develop go-to-market strategies.
  • Develop go-to-market materials to support the enterprise sales motion.
  • Partner with customer-facing teams to understand and address customer pain points.
• Customer & Market Advocacy:
  • Evangelize for your products, presenting to customers and partners.
  • Engage with industry standards bodies and communities.
  • Act as an external thought leader in the provenance and supply chain governance domain.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management in a customer-facing, B2B context.
• Proven ability to build and manage a pragmatic product roadmap.
• Domain knowledge in:
  • SDLC governance, GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance), and DORA metrics.
  • Software Provenance and Attestation, e.g., SLSA and in-toto.
  • ITSM and Software Asset Management product practices.
  • Build systems, e.g., Gradle Build Tool and Apache Maven.
  • CI/CD practices.
• Prior experience as a software engineer or a computer science degree.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to leverage data to inform product decisions.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of security standards and frameworks relevant to the software supply chain, e.g., NIST, CISA, ISO 27001.
• Experience with cryptography, signing, and key management practices in a developer tool context.
• Experience with building AI-powered products, agentic workflows, or LLM-based tooling.

Benefits

• Shape a greenfield product area at the intersection of supply chain security and AI-driven development.
• Close collaboration with an ambitious and experienced team.
• Opportunities for growth in your career and in leadership responsibilities.
• In-person meetings, such as our annual company offsite, team meetings, and onboardings.
• Work from home in a remote-first environment.
• Competitive salaries and equity grants.

Compensation

The US salary range for this position is $190-225k which reflects the target ranges for all US locations. Within this range, individual pay is determined by geographic location and additional factors including but not limited to experience, relevant skills, qualifications, seniority, performance, and travel requirements.

Location

Remote from the East Coast, USA. Our team works remotely and is spread across the globe. We coordinate across time zones and stay connected through brief daily syncs.