Principal Product Manager - ESC

Pulumi; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 180,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a deeply technical Product Manager to lead the roadmap for a fast-growing product focused on managing configuration and secrets. This role involves collaborating with engineering, design, and marketing teams to ensure product success while meeting the needs of developers and enterprises. The ideal candidate thrives in technical domains and is motivated to bring clarity and velocity to product development. Join a dynamic team that values creativity and aims to revolutionize cloud engineering, providing a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the tech industry.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

401(k) with Employer Match

Comprehensive Health Insurance

Parental Leave

Annual Learning Budget

Monthly Wellness Fund

Quarterly Happiness Fund

Remote-First Culture

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product management or a similar technical role.
• Strong technical acumen in developer tools and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve product strategy for Pulumi ESC.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver high-impact features.

Skills

Product Management

Technical Acumen

Customer Insight

Written Communication

Verbal Communication

Collaboration

Action Orientation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a Technical Field

Tools

Cloud Platforms

Developer Tools

Security Tools

Job description

Who We Are

Pulumi is realizing the vision of cloud engineering: building tools and services that enable every developer to program the cloud using the tools and practices they already know. We lead with an open source platform that embraces real programming languages, tools, and techniques, and offers an innovative SaaS product that helps teams collaborate. Cloud native leaders like Snowflake and CockroachDB as well as innovators like Mercedes-Benz R&D North America use Pulumi to make cloud infrastructure their competitive advantage.

Pulumi helps developers and infrastructure engineers tap into the vast world of cloud services–from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to Datadog, GitHub, Auth0, Rancher, and more–and create production-grade, repeatable infrastructure.

Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA. This role can be in Seattle or remote.

About the Role and Team

Pulumi is seeking a deeply technical and user-obsessed Product Manager to own the roadmap for Pulumi ESC (Environment Secrets and Config), a fast-growing product that helps teams manage configuration and secrets in a secure, structured, and scalable way. ESC supports a broad range of change management and security use cases across cloud, SaaS, and platform engineering teams.

You’ll work closely with the ESC engineering team, leadership, and customers ranging from individual developers to large enterprises. You’ll collaborate across design, engineering, marketing, and customer success to ensure that the product not only meets real-world needs but also pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in secrets and configuration management.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in technical domains like secrets management, cloud platforms, developer tooling, and operational workflows—and who is motivated to bring clarity, velocity, and customer insight to a product with big ambitions.

You Will

• Define and evolve the product strategy for Pulumi ESC in partnership with leadership and engineering, balancing investments across secrets management and change management capabilities.
• Lead roadmap planning and prioritization grounded in real customer needs, technical insight, and long-term vision.
• Conduct excellent, unbiased customer research and synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights to guide product direction.
• Collaborate with engineering to deliver high-impact features on a steady cadence, while ensuring the product is secure, reliable, and polished.
• Partner with design, customer success, sales, and marketing to drive adoption and ensure successful rollouts of new features.
• Work across Pulumi teams to ensure ESC integrates cleanly with the broader Pulumi Cloud platform and supports key developer and operator workflows.
• Define and measure success criteria, creating tight feedback loops that inform future planning.

You Have

• 6+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or a similar technical role.
• Strong technical acumen, especially in developer tools, security, infrastructure, or cloud platforms.
• A proven ability to connect customer insight, product execution, and business strategy.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to clarify complex problem spaces.
• A bias toward action and a pragmatic approach to delivering value quickly and iteratively.
• Experience working closely with engineering and design teams to ship high-quality software.

Nice to Have

• Experience in secrets management (PKI, encryption, KMS), configuration systems, or developer security.
• Familiarity with platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code workflows, or policy-based tooling.
• Experience building products that support change control or structured rollout processes.
• Comfort working in or with open source communities.
• A track record of guiding complex products toward widespread adoption.

Compensation

• Base Salary Hiring Range: $180,500 to $227,850
• All full time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus or variable, equity and benefits.

Benefits & Perks at Pulumi:

Health & Wellness:
We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees. Internationally, we comply with local healthcare requirements and provide regionally appropriate coverage.

Time Off:
Our unlimited PTO policy encourages balance and rest — and we require employees to take at least three weeks off annually, plus 13 U.S. holidays.

401(k):
U.S. employees are eligible for a 401(k) plan with an employer match to support long-term financial wellness.

Parental Leave:
We provide 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents or primary caregivers, and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents or secondary caregivers.

Remote-First Culture:
Pulumi has been fully remote since 2020, with teammates across 20+ U.S. states and 12+ countries. We support flexible work with asynchronous collaboration and an annual “work from anywhere” stipend.

Professional Development:
Every employee receives an annual learning and development budget to support growth, learning, and career goals.

Equity Ownership:
We believe in acting like owners. All employees receive equity and are empowered to think big, move fast, and build the future of cloud together.

Additional Support:
We offer a monthly wellness fund to support mental and physical well-being, and a quarterly happiness fund for team connection or personal use.

About Pulumi:

Pulumi is reimagining how teams build cloud software, enabling developers and infrastructure experts to work better together through a unique combination of programming languages, tools, and systems innovation.

Our flagship infrastructure as code technology is open source and our SaaS product, Pulumi Cloud, provides platform teams, secrets management, and cloud management capabilities, and more. We have pioneered leveraging AI across all of these areas with our LLM-powered Pulumi Copilot to push the boundaries of what's possible. At Pulumi, we dream big, in the pursuit of helping our customers out-innovate and win.

Founded in 2017 by industry veterans with over five decades of combined experience building developer platforms, Pulumi now has a global community of more than 350,000 members and serves over 3,250 customers. Despite our rapid growth, we're still only getting started, and are early in our mission to democratize the cloud. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment, we want to work with you to accelerate Pulumi's impact.

At Pulumi, we don't just accept difference, we celebrate, support, and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our customers. Pulumi is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.