Key skills
Product ManagementDistributed SystemsTechnical SaaS ProductsPaaSCloud-native ProductsOKRsCustomer Research TechniquesProduct DesignGo-To-Market PlanningBacklog ManagementAgile MethodologiesScalabilityFault ToleranceEvent-driven ArchitecturePerformance OptimizationGoAgenticKafkaAWSAzureGCPKubernetesDockerRabbitMQSaaSAgileCommunicationCollaborationSales
About this role
Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes across agents, people, and systems. They are seeking a talented Senior Product Manager to lead the development of their Core Platform, focusing on product strategy and collaboration with engineering teams to enhance their distributed workflow orchestration engine.
Responsibilities:
- Define market-driven vision, strategy, and product requirements focused on improving the Camunda product portfolio
- Manage community, customer, partner, and internal feedback with an emphasis on successfully driving innovation to improve our customers experience with Camunda’s core platform
- Fully evaluate and prioritize incoming feature requests
- Keep the self-managed team equipped to work on the appropriate epics
- Continuous assessment of Camunda demand, market differentiation and the competitive landscape as well as close collaboration with our Pre-Sales Engineers, Solution Architects, and other Field teams
Requirements:
- Ability and/or willingness to use our product
- Experience working with platform products used by IT departments at large enterprise companies (e.g., developers, automation engineers, ops teams)
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in distributed systems, technical SaaS products, PaaS, or cloud-native products
- Experience of OKRs, customer research techniques, product design, Go-To-Market planning, backlog management, and working in Agile teams
- Strong communication skills - internally collaborating with others and externally presenting to customers
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, event-driven architecture, and performance optimization
- Familiarity with technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience working with IT platforms in banking, financial services, and insurance sector
- Technical knowledge of configuring, deploying, managing the life cycle of platform products