Product Manager - Kubernetes / Ansible / IaC (Remote Europe)

Spacelift is the infrastructure orchestration platform built for the modern software era, managing the full lifecycle for both traditional IaC and AI-accelerated infrastructure. It integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible in a single governed workflow so you deliver secure, compliant infrastructure at scale. Developer self-service, Golden Paths with guardrails, an OPA policy engine, and drift detection accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control. Spacelift Intelligence adds AI-powered provisioning and diagnostics across traditional and AI-driven workflows.

Spacelift was founded in 2020 by long-time DevOps practitioner Marcin Wyszynski and successful entrepreneur Pawel Hytry and has raised $82.3M in funding over four rounds from top venture capital firms including Insight Partners, Blossom Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Inovo Venture partners and Five Elms Capital.

About the role

Spacelift is looking for a Product Manager to help shape and deliver products for teams using Kubernetes or Ansible in production.

You will own a defined product area from customer discovery through delivery, launch, and adoption. Working with Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Support, you will identify important customer problems, decide where to invest, and turn validated opportunities into products customers use.

This role is for an experienced product manager who has owned technical products and brings hands-on production experience with Kubernetes or Ansible.

You need hands-on production experience with either Kubernetes or Ansible. Expertise in both is not required, but you should understand core infrastructure-as-code workflows and how they relate to your area.

What you'll do

• Speak regularly with platform engineers, DevOps teams, infrastructure leaders, prospects, and customers.

• Study production workflows to understand problems involving governance, coordination, visibility, reliability, and adoption.

• Combine customer interviews with product usage, support cases, commercial feedback, and market research to identify the problems worth solving.

• Define product requirements, success measures, and clear recommendations using tools such as 5 Questions, PR/FAQs, specifications, and decision records.

• Prioritize work based on customer value, strategic fit, effort, risk, and potential learning.

• Work with Design to explore, prototype, validate, and refine solutions.

• Partner with the Engineering Manager on scope and trade-offs while Engineering leads architecture and technical execution.

• Work with the Director of New Product Development on product direction, major investment decisions, and the path to market.

• Coordinate launch readiness with Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Support.

• Review adoption and customer feedback after release, then decide whether to improve, expand, or stop the work.

• Build and apply working knowledge of Spacelift, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, policy, cloud infrastructure, and our execution engine, including how your product area connects with existing IaC workflows.

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of product management experience, including independent ownership of a technical B2B product or product area from discovery through delivery and adoption.

• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes or Ansible, gained through product management, engineering, solutions engineering, or a similar technical role:

  • Kubernetes: Argo CD, Flux, Helm, operators, cluster management, or application delivery.

  • Ansible: AWX or Automation Controller, inventories, job templates, execution environments, or automation workflows.

• The ability to explain how these tools work and where teams encounter operational or organizational challenges.

• Working familiarity with Terraform or OpenTofu and core IaC workflows, including Git-based changes, plan and apply, state, policy, and drift.

• Experience identifying user problems, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative evidence, and turning findings into clear product decisions.

• Strong written communication and the ability to work directly with engineers and technical customers.

• Good judgment, curiosity, and a willingness to change direction when the evidence supports it.

• Strong written and spoken English (B2 or above).

• Based in Europe.

Nice to have

• Experience with both Kubernetes and Ansible.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, OPA/Rego, CI/CD, RBAC, audit systems, or internal developer platforms.

• Experience in B2B SaaS or developer tools.

• Familiarity with Working Backwards, 5 Questions, or another evidence-led product practice.

• Experience using SQL, product analytics, or AI tools for research and analysis. 

Why Spacelift?

• Innovative Culture: Join a team shaping cloud infrastructure management’s future.

• Growth Opportunities: Be a key player in driving Spacelift’s business and AWS partnership to new heights.

• Work-Life Balance: Flexible work environment, with remote-first options and competitive compensation packages.

• Collaborative Team: Work with passionate, talented people committed to driving success for our customers and partners.

Recruitment process:

• 30' HR intro call

• 45' Director Product Management Interview

• Take-home exercise

• 60' Debriefing Panel with SVP of Product and Design

Our values

• We build for CUSTOMERS

• We RESPECT each other

• We take OWNERSHIP seriously

• We succeed through COLLABORATION

• We embrace SPARK & WONDER

More here: https://spacelift.io/careers

Join Us! At Spacelift, you won’t just be working on a technical product - you’ll be part of a team shaping the future of DevOps. Apply to contribute to a platform loved by its users and take your career to the next level!