Staff Product Manager

About the role

Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and power data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 900 of the world’s leading enterprises, including Datadog, American Express, Expedia, Adobe, Autodesk, Together AI, and more, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data.

About the Role

The world’s most regulated companies, from global banks to healthcare systems, need a secure and reliable way to orchestrate the flow of mission-critical data. With 3,600+ contributors and 30 million downloads a month, Airflow is one of the most active projects in the history of the Apache Software Foundation, and the de facto standard for data orchestration. Astro Private Cloud (APC) lets regulated companies run managed Apache Airflow at scale inside their own infrastructure, meeting their security, compliance and data-residency requirements.

APC customers are among Astronomer’s largest: at one global retailer more than 1,000 data teams use it for workloads that cannot fail, everything from supply chain to payroll. They expect the same experience as our hosted platform, but their environments are locked down, sometimes air-gapped, and each one differs from the next. So some features need a different architecture to work here, and others exist only in APC.

As Staff Product Manager for APC, you’ll own its roadmap end to end. You’ll decide the strategy to make APC the obvious choice for even the most sophisticated open-source Airflow teams. You’ll work out which capabilities matter most to these customers, how to deliver them in environments we don’t control, and where APC should lead - including new AI pipelines.

You’ll work with engineering to ship on dates customers can plan around, spend real time with customer executives, and partner closely with sales and services to keep our biggest accounts growing. And you’ll help build the foundational systems that our products will depend on for years.

What You'll Do

• Set the vision and roadmap. Define and drive the strategy for APC, starting with the near-term goal of reaching feature parity with Astro Hosted.
• Write the requirements. Specify a complex distributed platform that serves platform administrators, platform engineers, data engineers and AI teams.
• Build alongside engineering. Work with R&D from design through release, including the infrastructure decisions that shape the product: Kubernetes, cloud environments, multi-tenancy and observability.
• Listen to our most strategic customers. Engage executives and technical leaders on their security, compliance, certification and central-management needs, and use what you learn to prioritize.
• Balance the few and the many. Weigh specific customer demands against a committed roadmap that serves the broader customer base. Push back where necessary, and work with forward-deployed engineers to deliver custom requirements.
• Enable go-to-market teams. Support product marketing and sales with customer-focused messaging and content.
• Be the voice of APC. Represent the product externally through conferences, webinars and written content.

What You Bring

• Staff-level product experience. 8-9 years of product roles at enterprise data or infrastructure companies, with demonstrated experience driving product strategy and delivering impactful outcomes.
• Technical depth. You can engage as a peer with engineering partners across R&D.
• Platform knowledge. Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and the modern data stack.
• Experience with demanding technical users. You've handled large, complex requests and have the judgment to weigh them against the product's overall roadmap.
• Customer-facing presence. You're comfortable with executives and can turn customer input, product data and industry trends into a data-driven roadmap.
• A bias to action. A record of delivering the product vision you set across multiple R&D teams.
• Strong communication. You work well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Public voice. You're comfortable speaking and writing publicly about technical products.

Bonus Points

• Experience with on-premise or self-hosted enterprise software, or with customers in regulated industries such as finance and healthcare
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow
• Background in security, compliance and certification requirements for enterprise platforms
• Experience with open-source projects and communities

Pay and benefits

The estimated total compensation for this role ranges from $230,000 - $300,000, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package. This range is merely an estimate, and the width of the range reflects willingness to consider candidates with broad prior seniority. Actual compensation may deviate from this range based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

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