Principal Product Manager, Java Intelligence

Role overview Own product strategy and market outcomes for selected areas across a portfolio of software that helps organizations understand and improve production Java systems. The role spans cloud software, customer-operated Kubernetes services, and monitoring tools, with scope that may shift as the products and business develop. It is an individual contributor position, leading through product judgment and collaboration.

Responsibilities - Set strategy, roadmaps, pricing, packaging, and success measures for assigned product areas; track adoption, pipeline, conversion, and retention. - Align engineering, sales, and marketing on priorities, trade-offs, launches, and customer-facing positioning. - Work with engineering through discovery, design reviews, sprint planning, and implementation decisions; lead customer research and usability reviews. - Improve user and operator experiences, including installation and operation of services in Kubernetes environments. - Create technical documentation and sales materials; join customer calls, support deals, investigate escalations, and research competitors. - Coordinate product decisions across the portfolio and related runtime products, making dependencies and trade-offs clear.

Requirements - At least 8 years in product management, including several years owning a product or product line from strategy through launch and revenue. - Evidence of launching and growing technical products, with responsibility for measurable business outcomes. - Ability to package technical products and work across functions to bring pricing and packaging decisions to market. - Understanding of cloud platforms and Kubernetes, and of the roles developers and platform or DevOps engineers play in enterprise purchasing. - Strong written and spoken English, including the ability to communicate with engineers and senior business leaders. - Self-directed, effective in remote and asynchronous work, and able to create clarity in an evolving environment.

Nice to have - Software or quality engineering experience, Java knowledge, or familiarity with open source communities. - Experience with cloud cost optimization, infrastructure customers operate themselves, or taking a new product to durable revenue. - Familiarity with Java application servers, Jakarta EE, or OpenTelemetry; experience managing products at different stages or with different sales motions.

Benefits and work setup The role is fully remote. The source describes a compensation package with annual variable pay, health coverage, retirement savings, and paid leave, as well as professional development and the opportunity to work with specialists in the Java ecosystem.