Senior Product Manager - Distributed Agentic Platform (Remote)

Tech Ladies®; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Annual kickoff events

Healthcare

Learning budget

Job summary

Camunda is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the development and evolution of our Distributed Agentic Platform, including Zeebe, the cloud-native workflow engine at the heart of Camunda. This role blends technical depth with product leadership to understand customer needs, scale systems, and ensure security.

You will define product strategy, gather market feedback, and prioritize features while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience in distributed systems or cloud-native SaaS.
• OKRs, customer research techniques, backlog management, and working in Agile teams.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts, including scalability and performance.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services, and message brokers.

Responsibilities

• Define market-driven vision and strategy for the distributed agentic platform.
• Prioritize feature requests and manage epics.
• Collaborate with Pre-Sales Engineers, Solution Architects, and Field teams.
• Keep the self-managed team aligned and focused on delivery.
• Evaluate demand and market differentiation against competitors.

Skills

Platform product experience

PM experience

OKRs

Customer research

Product design

Go-To-Market planning

Backlog management

Agile

Communication

Distributed systems concepts

Scalability

Fault tolerance

Event-driven architecture

Performance optimization

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Company

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex, end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production - safely and at scale. Trusted by over 750 organizations worldwide, including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences.

Industry: Software Development

Company size: 251-1000

Headquarters: Berlin, Deutschland

Funding: Private

Job Description

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex, end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production - safely and at scale. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences.

Fully remote and global, we are in the middle of something bigger: transforming into an AI-first organisation, built on our own platform. We use Agentic AI to automate, orchestrate intelligent processes, and elevate human contribution across every team.

Named GP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list, 2025 Great Place to Work certified. Visionary in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies, We’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you want meaningful work, visible impact and put something genuinely rare on your CV, keep reading.

About The Role

We are seeking a talented and technically proficient Senior Product Manager to lead the development and evolution of our Distributed Agentic Platform, which includes Zeebe, the cloud-native workflow engine at the heart of Camunda. This critical role is both technical and product-focused, requiring a deep understanding of customer needs, system scalability, performance, reliability, and security.

What You Will Do

• Define market-driven vision, strategy, and product requirements focused on improving the Camunda product portfolio.
• Manage community, customer, partner, and internal feedback with an emphasis on successfully driving innovation to improve our customers experience with Camunda’s distributed agentic platform.
• Fully evaluate and prioritize incoming feature requests
• Keep the self-managed team equipped to work on the appropriate epics.
• Continuous assessment of Camunda demand, market differentiation and the competitive landscape as well as close collaboration with our Pre-Sales Engineers, Solution Architects, and other Field teams.

What You Will Bring To The Role

• Experience working with platform products used by IT departments at large enterprise companies (e.g., developers, automation engineers, ops teams).
• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in distributed systems, technical SaaS products, PaaS, or cloud-native products.
• Experience of OKRs, customer research techniques, product design, Go-To-Market planning, backlog management, and working in Agile teams.
• Strong communication skills - internally collaborating with others and externally presenting to customers.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, event-driven architecture, and performance optimization.
• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with IT platforms in banking, financial services, and insurance sector.
• Technical knowledge of configuring, deploying, managing the life cycle of platform products.

Compensation

What We Have to Offer:

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition.

The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) shown below spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills, experience, and location, and we typically hire in the first half of the range to allow room for growth:

• United States: $119,900.00 to $193,200.00
• Canada: €77,400.00 to €128,100.00
• United Kingdom: £75,300.00 to £123,800.00
• Singapore: S$148,900.00 to S$223,300.00

If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com (our global employer partner), and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview.

Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

Benefits & Perks

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when you need it.
• In Person Connection: We invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling,, and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life, not just work, from: staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.
• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
• Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!

Everyone is welcome at Camunda — it’s a celebrated component of our culture. At Camunda, we honour diverse cultures and backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristics under applicable law. We are looking forward to your application!

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