Senior Product Manager, AI CICD

Chainguard; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First Culture

Stock options

100% Health Insurance

Flexible Time Off

18 Weeks Parental Leave

Job summary

Chainguard is securing the software supply chain and is building a new product to empower developers and their agents. You will shape the product direction, own the vision, and work with a small, expert team to bring it from concept to adoption.

You will drive strategy, balance tradeoffs, and deliver a compelling experience for developers. The role requires deep technical insight, a strong track record in product management for developer-focused tools, and the ability to operate with minimal

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience on developer-facing, infrastructure, security, or similarly technical products.
• You've built agent tools, or tools used by developers to build with agents.
• You know CI from the inside: builds, tests, caches, runners, artifacts, merge gates.
• You don't need to be a GitHub Actions expert; broad workflow YAML experience is not the core requirement.
• Experience taking a technical product from idea through launch and iteration.
• Judgment about what to leave out to avoid feature bloat.
• Comfort with a deeply technical engineering team and tradeoff discussions.
• You talk to developers directly and can distinguish what tech people find interesting vs what will be adopted.
• You write well and produce docs.
• You can operate independently in a fast-moving area without a playbook.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, vision, and roadmap for the product.
• Lead 0→1 product work to transform a working system into a purchasable product.
• Deeply understand how developers and agents build, test, review, and ship software today.
• Engage design partners and turn feedback into priorities.
• Own developer experience, ensuring easy adoption and migration paths.
• Position the product, name it, craft docs and pricing in collaboration with Marketing.
• Provide cross-functional leadership across Engineering, Experience, Product Marketing, and other Product leaders.

Skills

Product management

Developer tools

CI/CD

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Written communication

Tools

Agent tooling

CI pipelines

Kubernetes

Job description

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

The role, in a nutshell:

Chainguard secures the software supply chain, and we're standing up a new team to build a new product inside it. Agents now write a large and growing share of the world's code, and they inherited a CI system designed for humans who push a few times a day. Write, push, wait in a queue, reinstall the same toolchain, scrape the logs, try again. Agents iterate far more often than people do, so they feel every minute of that, and the workarounds they've grown are worse than the thing they're working around. We don't think the fix is a faster version of the CI you already have. We think CI gets rebuilt for agents, and that's what we're doing. The product isn't launched, so a job post is the wrong place for the details. What we can tell you now: the team is small, the hard technical pieces already run in production inside Chainguard, and you'd be driving the product direction.

What you'll own:

• 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.

What we're looking for:

• 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.

Nice to haves

• 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.

Explore Our Work

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Base Salary Range$205,000—$231,000 USD

About Us

We live and breathe our company values:

• We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
• We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi‑annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need - to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.