Product Manager - Kubernetes / Ansible / IaC (Remote, European Union)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Speak regularly with platform engineers, DevOps teams, infrastructure leaders, prospects and customers
• ▹Study production workflows to understand problems around governance, coordination, visibility, reliability and adoption
• ▹Combine customer interviews with product usage, support cases, commercial feedback and market research to identify problems worth solving
• ▹Define product requirements, success measures and clear recommendations using tools such as 5 Questions, PR/FAQs, specifications and decision records
• ▹Prioritise 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 working knowledge of Spacelift, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, policy, cloud infrastructure and the execution engine

Requirements

• ▹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 Kubernetes (Argo CD, Flux, Helm, operators, cluster management, application delivery) or Ansible (AWX or Automation Controller, inventories, job templates, execution environments, automation workflows)
• ▹Ability to explain how these tools work and where teams encounter operational or organisational 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, synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence and turning findings into clear product decisions
• ▹Strong written communication and ability to work directly with engineers and technical customers
• ▹Good judgment, curiosity and 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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexible work environment with remote-first options
• ▹Competitive compensation package
• ▹Growth opportunities

About the company

Spacelift is the infrastructure orchestration platform built for the modern software era, managing the full lifecycle of both traditional and AI-accelerated IaC. It integrates Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi and Ansible in a single governed workflow. Founded in 2020, it has raised $82.3M over four rounds.