Product Manager

Spacelift is the infrastructure orchestration platform built for the modern software era managing the full lifecycle for both traditional IaC and AI-accelerated infrastructure.

It integrates with Terraform OpenTofu CloudFormation Pulumi and Ansible in a single governed workflow so you deliver secure compliant infrastructure at scale.

Developer self-service Golden Paths with guardrails an OPA policy engine and drift detection accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control.

Spacelift Intelligence adds AI-powered provisioning and diagnostics across traditional and AI-driven workflows.

Spacelift was founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry and has raised $82.3M in funding over four rounds from top venture capital firms including Insight Partners Blossom Capital Hoxton Ventures Inovo Venture partners and Five Elms Capital.

About the role

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 and 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.

What we're looking for

• 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. 

Why Spacelift?

• 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

More here: https://spacelift.io/careers

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!