Sr. Product Manager

As vCluster’s Product Manager, you are the technical architect of our product’s future. Partnering directly with Engineering and the Head of Product, you will own the technical roadmap—translating complex cloud-native challenges into a seamless, high-value platform.

We are looking for a builder. The ideal candidate has experience developing the fundamental building blocks of the cloud—someone who has shipped the infrastructure services that others rely on.

• Technical Roadmap Ownership: Drive the strategic direction for vCluster, translating high-level vision into clear product requirements and detailed technical specifications that enable efficient engineering execution.

• Founder Partnership: Work hand-in-hand with leaders to navigate complex technical decisions, ensuring our architecture remains the gold standard for multi-tenant Kubernetes.

• Hands-on Validation: Go deep with engineering to scope features, validate implementations, and personally test alpha/beta builds to ensure we are shipping enterprise-grade infrastructure.

• Customer Intelligence: Engage directly with platform engineers at world-class organizations to gather feedback, understand real-world use cases, and identify the next "zero-to-one" opportunity for the product.

• Market Positioning: Conduct rigorous competitive analysis of the cloud-native ecosystem and partner with GTM teams to ensure our messaging resonates with highly technical buyers.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as the ultimate bridge between Engineering, Sales, and Marketing, ensuring that what we build aligns perfectly with how we sell and support our customers.

• Experience: 6+ years of Product Management experience, with a proven track record of building and shipping platform services, cloud-native infrastructure, or distributed systems.

• Infrastructure Provider Background: You have experience building "Kubernetes-as-a-Service" offerings, whether as a managed service for a cloud provider or as a centralized on-prem platform for a large-scale enterprise.

• Technical Depth: You are "K8s-native." You understand controllers, CRDs, and API machinery. You are comfortable going toe-to-toe with senior engineers on complex system architecture and multi-tenant isolation.

• AI & MLOps Infrastructure: You understand the infrastructure requirements of the modern era, specifically regarding MLOps, AI infrastructure (GPU slicing/scheduling), and LLM deployment patterns.

• Founding Grit: You thrive in ambiguity and are excited to build the product management playbook from scratch. You take extreme ownership and drive outcomes without needing a pre-defined process.

• Strategic Execution: You have "seen this before" and know how to scale a technical product from early adoption to a predictable, market-leading engine.

Bonus Points For:

• Internal Developer Platforms: Specific experience as a Platform PM building tools (IDPs) that abstract infrastructure complexity for developer teams.

• Bare Metal & HPC: Experience working with or building for bare metal infrastructure or high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

• Startup Growth: Experience navigating a company through a successful Series B+ scaling phase.

We are a venture-backed tech startup striving to be the leading force in enabling platform engineers. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.

We're the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (+10k GitHub stars). Open source is part of our DNA.

The adoption of our commercial product based on vCluster has grown extremely fast (multi-million dollar revenue) and our customer base includes some of the biggest companies in the world, including 6 Global Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the fastest-growing tech unicorns.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits:

• Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.

• Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).

• Flexible Working Schedule:  You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.

• Workplace Flexibility:  We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

At vCluster Labs, we value and stand for:

1. Open Source, Open Mind: We are actively contributing to and maintaining open-source projects. Internally, we foster meritocracy — the strongest ideas win, no matter who or where they come from.

2. Build Tomorrow’s Standards, Intentionally: We don't just ship software; we define the state-of-the-art of tomorrow. We are fearless in tearing down old approaches to build something better, but we are disciplined in how we do it because we know our users rely on our technology to run mission-critical infrastructure platforms.

3. Create Wow: We measure success by the experience we generate, both inside and outside the company. For our customers, this means impressive speed and intuitive experiences. For our team, this means going the extra mile to support one another and to continuously drive each other to new heights.

4. Own the Outcome: We understand that our responsibility doesn't end when a task is checked off; it ends when the value is delivered. We connect our daily individual actions to the broader success of the company and our customers.