Staff Product Manager Marketplace Ecosystem (Remote)

Join Upbound as the Staff Product Manager focused on enhancing the experience in the Upbound Marketplace and Day 0 on Upbound’s commercial product. This role is an integral part of the Upbound Product organization’s efforts to build a world-class Universal Cloud Platform. In this role you will be working closely with Software Vendors to build and ecosystem in support of our commercial product, Upbound Cloud. This role is responsible for the Upbound Marketplace and Day 0 experiences on Upbound Product.

Success in this role will be driving our strategy and execution for extending Upbound into a world-class platform and for our Marketplace to become a flourishing hub of content for the community, getting active community engagement. Open to candidates In EMEA and NAMER, must be available to collaborate with a team based in the US, and requires working within GMT-5 to GMT-8.

In this role you will…

• Own the roadmap for our Marketplace
• Work with engineering teams to prioritize backlog, identify user gaps
• Create low-fidelity mockups and work through end user features deeply
• Work closely with Design to create holistic user journeys
• Work with the broader Upbound product team to align roadmaps and plans
• Work closely with customer service to understand and respond to customer needs

You are a good fit if you have…

• Existing PM experience with SaaS UI based products
• Know, have used, and care about Crossplane. Being the front face for Crossplane’s commercial product requires deep knowledge of the underlying OSS project and problems it addresses
• Developer background – you can use our products and write code to try out new features
• Very familiar with Kubernetes and the related ecosystem
• Enterprise product management experience
• 5+ years of Product Management experience
• Public examples of code on GitHub or GitLab (of any quality, this role isn’t shipping production code)
• Constantly think ‘there has got to be a better way to do this’ about anything

It’s a plus if you have…

• Have built CLI, API, and SDK products in the past
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Crossplane
• Experience creating diagrams and simple illustrations which enhance your content
• Worked with open source communities and managed public roadmaps