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.
In March 2026, we closed a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, with participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo – backed by founders from Datadog, dbt Labs, and Hugging Face.
The RoleWe'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 DoOwn 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.
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.
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.
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.
Skills Required
- Hands-on, startup-minded product manager comfortable working without heavy process or structure
- Strong technical understanding with exposure to infrastructure automation or orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD)
- Excellent written communication and clarity in specs, product decisions, and public-facing documentation
- Full ownership mentality; iterate quickly based on feedback
- Experience or familiarity with open-source development and collaborating in GitHub repositories
- Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across time zones
- 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 adoption patterns
What We Do
Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform that makes both scheduled and event-driven workflows easy. By bringing Infrastructure as Code best practices to data, process, and microservice orchestration, you can build reliable workflows and manage them with confidence. In just a few lines of code, you can create a flow directly from the UI. Thanks to the declarative YAML interface for defining orchestration logic, business stakeholders can participate in the workflow creation process. Kestra offers a versatile set of language-agnostic developer tools while simultaneously providing an intuitive user interface tailored for business professionals. The YAML definition gets automatically adjusted any time you make changes to a workflow from the UI or via an API call. Therefore, the orchestration logic is always managed declaratively in code, even if some workflow components are modified in other ways (UI, CI/CD, Terraform, API calls).
