Product Manager - Workload Connectivity (Kubernetes)

Tailscale; United States; Remote; USD 177,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Professional development stipend

Home office setup

Paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement match

Job summary

Tailscale is seeking a Product Manager to own Workload Connectivity, turning Kubernetes, ephemeral workloads, and agent connectivity into a cohesive product offering. You will shape strategy and drive cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, and GTM to deliver a scalable, developer-focused experience.

The role emphasizes APIs, tooling, and measurable business impact, with a strong emphasis on pricing, packaging, and revenue growth across cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management owning developer-facing infrastructure products.
• Strong technical fluency in cloud-native infrastructure including Kubernetes, containers, networking.
• Experience building products for developers and platform engineers with APIs and documentation.
• Ability to own a product area end-to-end from strategy and roadmap through launch and measurable business impact.
• Strong commercial judgment to turn technical capabilities into differentiated products and revenue.
• Ability to work directly with sophisticated technical customers and lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Workload Connectivity, including Kubernetes, ephemerals workloads, agent connectivity, and cloud integrations.
• Define the end-to-end developer experience for connecting workloads, from authentication and deployment through monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Drive the Kubernetes operator roadmap and establish reference architectures and integrations for common cloud-native connectivity patterns.
• Partner with product, engineering, operations, and go-to-market teams to develop workload connectivity pricing and packaging, driving adoption and revenue growth.
• Define and own success metrics for workload adoption, activation, retention, and revenue, using data to guide product investments.
• Build deep customer insight by working directly with developers, platform engineers, and infrastructure teams.
• Collaborate across product teams on shared foundations, including identity, access controls, networking, and developer tooling.

Skills

Product management

Developer-focused infra

Cloud-native infra

Kubernetes

APIs and documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

CI/CD systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

Tailscale is seeking a Product Manager to own Workload Connectivity, turning Kubernetes, ephemeral workloads, and agent connectivity into a cohesive product offering. You will shape strategy and drive cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, and GTM to deliver a scalable, developer-focused experience.

The role emphasizes APIs, tooling, and measurable business impact, with a strong emphasis on pricing, packaging, and revenue growth across cloud-native environments.