Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
Chainguard is building the most trusted source for open source software, and the experience our customers and developers have discovering, evaluating, adopting, and managing our products is becoming increasingly critical to that mission.
We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the product strategy and execution for Chainguard's core user experience across the Console and public Directory. You'll shape how developers and enterprise customers onboard, discover products, manage subscriptions, and engage with Chainguard across an increasingly connected portfolio.
This is a high-impact role at the intersection of product experience, developer-led growth, and platform strategy. As Chainguard expands into new products and introduces more cross-product capabilities, many of our most important growth initiatives are becoming increasingly UI- and workflow-driven. You'll define the roadmap that brings those experiences together and makes it easier for users to get value from Chainguard quickly.
What you'll own:Product experience strategy & roadmap. Own the vision and roadmap for Chainguard's Console and public Directory experiences. Identify the highest-impact opportunities to simplify workflows, connect products, and create a cohesive experience as the portfolio grows.
Onboarding & activation. Define how new users discover, evaluate, and get started with Chainguard. Reduce friction across onboarding and time-to-value, and build experiences that help users quickly understand what to do next.
Developer-led & product-led growth. Partner closely with GTM, Growth, Design, and Engineering to build experiences that drive self-service adoption, engagement, and conversion. Develop a deep understanding of the user journey and continuously improve the moments that influence activation, retention, and expansion.
Subscription & account management. Shape the customer experience for managing subscriptions, plans, access, and other cross-product capabilities. Ensure these workflows are intuitive and scalable as Chainguard's commercial offerings evolve.
Cross-product experience. Create consistency across products so customers experience Chainguard as one platform rather than a collection of individual tools. Partner with PMs across the organization to identify shared workflows and establish patterns that can scale across products.
Cross-functional leadership. Work closely with Engineering, Design, GTM, and other Product leaders to turn customer and business needs into a focused roadmap. Bring clarity to ambiguous problems, drive alignment, and make thoughtful tradeoffs between short-term growth opportunities and long-term platform investments.
What we're looking for:- 5+ years of Product Management experience, ideally with developer-facing, SaaS, platform, or enterprise products.
- Experience owning user-facing product experiences from strategy through launch and iteration.
- Demonstrated success improving onboarding, activation, engagement, conversion, or other product-growth metrics.
- Strong product instincts around UX and customer journeys, with the ability to partner deeply with Design.
- Experience building cross-product or platform experiences that serve multiple customer segments or product lines.
- Experience instrumenting and building user telemetry systems and patterns
- Comfortable using data, customer research, and experimentation to identify friction and prioritize improvements.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to align Engineering, Design, GTM, and other stakeholders around a shared roadmap.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and translating broad growth objectives into clear product priorities.
- Experience with developer tools, infrastructure, security, or other highly technical products.
- Experience building product-led growth or developer-led growth motions.
- Familiarity with subscription management, billing, entitlements, or self-service purchasing experiences.
- Experience with B2B products that serve both individual developers and large enterprise customers.
- Background building shared design patterns or platform capabilities across a multi-product portfolio.
- Experience partnering closely with Sales, Marketing, Growth, or Customer Success on adoption and expansion initiatives.
Dive into the practical side of what we do at Chainguard. These resources provide a hands-on look at our processes and offer an opportunity for in-depth understanding of our product offerings and the technology behind them.
- Chainguard Academy
- https://www.chainguard.dev
We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of Product Management experience, ideally with developer-facing, SaaS, platform, or enterprise products
- Experience owning user-facing product experiences from strategy through launch and iteration
- Demonstrated success improving onboarding, activation, engagement, conversion, or other product-growth metrics
- Strong product instincts around UX and customer journeys, with the ability to partner deeply with Design
- Experience building cross-product or platform experiences serving multiple customer segments or product lines
- Experience instrumenting and building user telemetry systems and patterns
- Ability to use data, customer research, and experimentation to identify friction and prioritize improvements
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills aligning Engineering, Design, GTM, and stakeholders around a shared roadmap
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and translate broad growth objectives into clear product priorities
- Experience with developer tools, infrastructure, security, or other highly technical products
- Experience building product-led growth or developer-led growth motions
- Familiarity with subscription management, billing, entitlements, or self-service purchasing experiences
- Experience with B2B products serving individual developers and large enterprise customers
- Background building shared design patterns or platform capabilities across a multi-product portfolio
- Experience partnering with Sales, Marketing, Growth, or Customer Success on adoption and expansion initiatives
Chainguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Chainguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Chainguard.
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Affordable Benefits — Health insurance is fully employer-paid for employees and dependents, materially reducing out-of-pocket costs. Public benefits materials consistently highlight this as a cornerstone of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for all parents and meaningful family-planning support (including adoption, IVF, egg freezing, and surrogacy) are emphasized across company materials. These elements broaden support for different family paths and stages.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options are granted at hire and promotion with a long post-termination exercise window, improving flexibility and potential value capture. This structure is presented as notably employee-friendly for a startup.
Chainguard Insights
What We Do
Chainguard is the secure foundation for building with open source software. The company's portfolio of secure, minimal container images helps organizations embrace a new culture of software development where starting left with security, not shifting left, is the reality. Chainguard was founded by the industry's leading experts on software supply chain security, open source, software, and cloud-native development. We aren't a traditional security vendor. It's container images provide secure-by-default infrastructure that introduces zero friction to developer workflows. That's why developers love and CISOS trust Chainguard. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading technology and security companies, including Anduril, Canva, Domino Data Lab, Checkmarx, HPE, GitLab, Snowflake, and Wiz. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia, and Spark Capital.
Why Work With Us
Security is our mission, but having fun is our mantra. Since our founding, we've increased +1M memes, sung 900+ hours of Kubernetes-themed karaoke, and created 774+ whacky Slack emojis. Beyond this, Chainguard's innovation and leadership in open source and software supply chain security has been recognized by industry leaders.
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