[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @HiveMQ GmbH

Role Description

We’re seeking an exceptional Senior Product Manager to lead HiveMQ’s Data Streaming portfolio — the connectivity and transport foundation that every other layer of our Industrial AI Platform depends on. The core product is our flagship offering: HiveMQ Enterprise Broker, the high-performance MQTT server running at the core of industrial operations at companies mentioned above and more.

A critical and differentiating element of the Enterprise Broker is its extensibility system — the mechanism by which new functionality is built in the field, validated against real customer needs, and reviewed, generalized, and graduated into the core product. Managing this well requires two things in parallel:

• Ensuring OT teams can easily build integrations with IT systems without friction.
• Maintaining a healthy process by which extensions are proposed, triaged, and absorbed into the roadmap rather than accumulating as one-off customizations.

The Data Streaming layer faces a genuinely interesting strategic challenge:

• It is HiveMQ’s primary revenue engine today, but lighter brokers and free-tier strategies from competitors are beginning to pressure pricing in some segments.
• The response isn’t to double down on features — it’s to make HiveMQ the default substrate for operational agents, the only choice that compounds into Intelligence and Agentic AI in ways no alternative can match.

Translating that thesis into a product roadmap is as much a PM job as a strategic one.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years total work experience, with significant portion in product management or consulting.
• Track record with established enterprise infrastructure products at a meaningful stage of maturity.
• Data-driven product development: demonstrated success using quantitative and qualitative methods to drive product decisions.
• Budget and resource management: experience allocating resources across teams and managing to budget.
• Ideally located in the Eastern Time zone of the United States.

Requirements

• Message-oriented middleware and event-driven architectures: deep familiarity as PM or practitioner with MQTT and/or platforms like Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ, or similar distributed messaging and streaming technologies.
• OT/IT convergence: meaningful experience with operational technology environments.
• Smart manufacturing / Industry 4.0: understanding of how manufacturers instrument facilities, manage device fleets, and move operational data from edge to cloud.
• IoT, robotics, or adjacent industrial domains: broader device connectivity experience.
• Self-managed enterprise software: experience with products that deploy on-premises or at the edge.
• PLG for infrastructure or developer products: track record with product-led growth motions for technical products.
• Distributed systems: genuine appreciation for reliability, scalability, clustering, and operational observability at scale.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.

Company Description

HiveMQ is the Industrial AI Platform helping enterprises move from connected devices to intelligent operations. Built on the MQTT standard and a distributed edge-to-cloud architecture, HiveMQ connects and governs industrial data in real time, enabling global leaders like Audi, BMW, Eli Lilly, and Siemens to operationalize AI and drive innovation at scale.

At HiveMQ, our culture is Effortless → Empowered → Relentless. We make the complex simple, act with confidence and ownership, and never stop pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.