Senior Product Manager (AI CICD)

Chainguard is a trusted source for hardened, secure, and production-ready open source software. The company is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the product direction for a new AI-focused CI/CD product, taking it from an internal system to a customer-facing offering. The role owns strategy, roadmap, design partnerships, developer experience, launch, and cross-functional execution.

Responsibilities:

• Strategy and roadmap. Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product. Decide what we build first, what comes next, and what we're not going to do
• 0→1 product work. Take this from a system that works for us to a product customers buy and use. Bring structure to problems that don't have any yet, make the tradeoff calls, and get things in front of users before they feel finished
• How agents actually build software. Go deep on how developers and their agents write, test, review, and ship code today, including the parts nobody blogs about. Most of what's written about agentic development is aspirational. You'll work from what people really do
• Design partners. Find the teams whose agent fleets are big enough to hurt, get the product into their hands early, and turn what they tell you into priorities
• Developer experience. Adoption is the whole game here. Own how the product gets tried, configured, and lived with, so a team can move onto it without running a migration project
• Launch. Positioning, naming, docs, the pricing model, and the story, with Product Marketing and the rest of Product. You're also the person who says when it's ready
• Cross-functional leadership. Partner with Engineering, Experience, Product Marketing, and other Product leaders, and keep a small team pointed at the same thing while the space shifts underneath it

Requirements:

• 5+ years of product management experience on developer-facing, infrastructure, security, or similarly technical products
• You've built agent tools. Something agents use, or something people use to build with agents: a coding agent, an agent framework or harness, MCP servers, eval systems, or developer tooling meant to be driven by a model instead of a person. This is the requirement that matters most to us
• You know CI from the inside. Builds, tests, caches, runners, artifacts, merge gates, and the specific reasons pipelines end up slow, flaky, and expensive. You should have opinions about why
• You don't need to be a GitHub Actions expert. We're not building a better Actions, and years of workflow YAML isn't the experience we're hiring for. Knowing where it breaks is
• Experience taking a technical product from an early idea through launch and iteration
• Judgment about what to leave out. A new product dies from doing too much as easily as from doing too little
• Comfort with a deeply technical engineering team. You can hold your own in a design discussion and disagree with an engineer about a tradeoff
• You talk to developers directly and often, and you can tell the difference between technology people find interesting and a product they'll actually adopt
• You write well. We make decisions in documents here
• You can operate on your own in a fast-moving area with no established playbook
• You've run coding agents in production at real volume, or built the systems that keep them from breaking things
• Experience with developer platforms, build systems, remote execution, or hosted development environments
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, registries, or other cloud-native infrastructure
• You've built security products for developers, and you know how fast a developer abandons one that gets in the way
• Experience with products that serve individual developers and large enterprises at the same time
• You've owned your own team's CI at some point and hated it