Product Manager, Data Orchestration

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own the full product lifecycle: understand customer problems, define technical specs, prototype, and work closely with developers
• ▹Shape Kestra's data-aware orchestration, with pipelines modeled around the datasets they produce, including lineage, freshness and data quality
• ▹Deepen integrations with the modern data stack: dbt, Fivetran, Airbyte, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Kafka and the wider Kestra plugin ecosystem
• ▹Build clear migration paths and documentation for teams moving from Airflow and similar orchestrators
• ▹Collaborate with the Product Lead and CTO to shape and scope features for each 8-week release cycle
• ▹Coordinate development so features are delivered, QA'd, documented and ready to go
• ▹Improve the product continuously based on customer feedback, usage data and community input

Requirements

• ▹Hands-on, startup-minded PM comfortable working without heavy process or structure
• ▹Strong background in the data domain, with hands-on experience building or managing data pipelines
• ▹Practical experience with dbt, Fivetran or Airbyte, and warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks
• ▹Practical experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect or Kestra), including scheduling, backfills, retries and dependencies
• ▹Excellent written communication for specs, product decisions and public-facing documentation
• ▹Full ownership mentality, iterating quickly based on feedback
• ▹Experience or familiarity with open-source development, comfortable writing and discussing changes publicly in GitHub
• ▹Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across time zones

Nice to have

• ▹Past experience as a data engineer or analytics engineer
• ▹Experience moving a team from Airflow (or another orchestrator) to a new platform
• ▹Experience in a B2B software or open-source company
• ▹Exposure to SaaS products, especially self-serve or platform-oriented
• ▹Familiarity with data engineering communities and how they adopt tools

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Real ownership in a globally distributed, technical team
• ▹Direct exposure to product strategy and company priorities

About the company

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 Credit Agricole, with close to 30,000 GitHub stars and hundreds of contributors.