Product Manager, Data Orchestration

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Product Manager leading data orchestration at Kestra, an open-source universal orchestration platform. Shaping data-aware workflows, integrations, migrations, and releases for data engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the full product lifecycle for data orchestration, from understanding customer problems through technical specifications, prototyping, and delivery.
  • Shape data-aware orchestration around datasets, lineage, freshness, and data quality.
  • Deepen integrations with dbt, Fivetran, Airbyte, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Kafka, and the Kestra plugin ecosystem.
  • Make migrations easier for teams moving from Airflow and similar orchestrators.
  • Collaborate with the Product Lead and CTO to shape and scope features for each 8-week release cycle.
  • Make tradeoffs balancing simplicity, technical feasibility, and long-term sustainability.
  • Coordinate development progress and ensure features are delivered, QA'd, documented, and release-ready.
  • Continuously improve the product using customer feedback, usage data, and community input.

Requirements:

  • Hands-on, startup-minded Product Manager comfortable working without heavy process or structure.
  • Strong data-domain background, including hands-on experience building or managing data pipelines.
  • Hands-on knowledge of dbt, Fivetran or Airbyte, and warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
  • Practical experience with workflow orchestration using Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Kestra.
  • Clear understanding of scheduling, backfills, retries, and dependencies between datasets.
  • Excellent communication and clarity in writing, including specifications, product decisions, and public-facing documentation.
  • Full ownership mentality and ability to iterate quickly based on feedback.
  • Experience or familiarity with open-source development and comfort writing publicly and discussing product changes in GitHub repositories.
  • Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across time zones.
  • Bonus: Past experience as a data engineer or analytics engineer.
  • Bonus: Experience migrating from Airflow or another orchestrator to a new platform.
  • Bonus: Experience in a B2B software or open-source company.
  • Bonus: Exposure to SaaS products, especially self-serve or platform-oriented products.
  • Bonus: Familiarity with data engineering communities and tool adoption.

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Real ownership in a globally distributed, technical team
  • Direct exposure to product strategy and company priorities
  • Product running mission-critical workloads in production at over 10,000 organizations