Senior Product Manager (Experience)

Chainguard; United States; On-site; USD 205,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Equity options

Health insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source software, delivering secure, production-ready builds. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the experience across the Console and Directory, guiding onboarding, activation, and subscription management for developers and enterprise customers.

You’ll partner with Engineering, Design, GTM, and Growth to shape a cohesive, scalable platform and drive growth across a multi-product portfolio. Strong cross-functional leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management, ideally for developer-facing or enterprise SaaS.
• Experience owning user-facing experiences from strategy to launch and iteration.
• Ability to analyze onboarding, activation, engagement, and conversion metrics.

Responsibilities

• Own product experience strategy and roadmap for Console and public Directory.
• Define onboarding and activation to reduce friction and accelerate time-to-value.
• Partner with GTM, Growth, Design, and Engineering to drive self-service adoption.
• Shape subscription and account management workflows for cross-product coherence.
• Create cross-product consistency and align stakeholders on a shared roadmap.
• Lead cross-functional teams to translate customer needs into prioritized work.

Skills

Product Management

Developer-facing

SaaS

Platform products

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

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.

Senior Product Manager, Experience

The role, in a nutshell

Chainguard is building the most trusted source for open source software, and the experience our customers and developers have discovering, evaluating, adopting, and managing our products is becoming increasingly critical to that mission. We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the product strategy and execution for Chainguard's core user experience across the Console and public Directory. You'll shape how developers and enterprise customers onboard, discover products, manage subscriptions, and engage with Chainguard across an increasingly connected portfolio. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of product experience, developer-led growth, and platform strategy. As Chainguard expands into new products and introduces more cross-product capabilities, many of our most important growth initiatives are becoming increasingly UI- and workflow-driven. You'll define the roadmap that brings those experiences together and makes it easier for users to get value from Chainguard quickly.

What You'll Own

• Product experience strategy & roadmap. Own the vision and roadmap for Chainguard's Console and public Directory experiences. Identify the highest-impact opportunities to simplify workflows, connect products, and create a cohesive experience as the portfolio grows.
• Onboarding & activation. Define how new users discover, evaluate, and get started with Chainguard. Reduce friction across onboarding and time-to-value, and build experiences that help users quickly understand what to do next.
• Developer-led & product-led growth. Partner closely with GTM, Growth, Design, and Engineering to build experiences that drive self-service adoption, engagement, and conversion. Develop a deep understanding of the user journey and continuously improve the moments that influence activation, retention, and expansion.
• Subscription & account management. Shape the customer experience for managing subscriptions, plans, access, and other cross-product capabilities. Ensure these workflows are intuitive and scalable as Chainguard's commercial offerings evolve.
• Cross-product experience. Create consistency across products so customers experience Chainguard as one platform rather than a collection of individual tools. Partner with PMs across the organization to identify shared workflows and establish patterns that can scale across products.
• Cross-functional leadership. Work closely with Engineering, Design, GTM, and other Product leaders to turn customer and business needs into a focused roadmap. Bring clarity to ambiguous problems, drive alignment, and make thoughtful tradeoffs between short-term growth opportunities and long-term platform investments.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and translating broad growth objectives into clear product priorities.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of Product Management experience, ideally with developer-facing, SaaS, platform, or enterprise products.
• Experience owning user-facing product experiences from strategy through launch and iteration.
• Demonstrated success improving onboarding, activation, engagement, conversion, or other product-growth metrics.
• Strong product instincts around UX and customer journeys, with the ability to partner deeply with Design.
• Experience building cross-product or platform experiences that serve multiple customer segments or product lines.
• Experience instrumenting and building user telemetry systems and patterns
• Comfortable using data, customer research, and experimentation to identify friction and prioritize improvements.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to align Engineering, Design, GTM, and other stakeholders around a shared roadmap.

Nice to haves

• Experience with developer tools, infrastructure, security, or other highly technical products.
• Experience building product-led growth or developer-led growth motions.
• Familiarity with subscription management, billing entitlements, or self-service purchasing experiences.
• Experience with B2B products that serve both individual developers and large enterprise customers.
• Background building shared design patterns or platform capabilities across a multi-product portfolio.
• Experience partnering closely with Sales, Marketing, Growth, or Customer Success on adoption and expansion initiatives.

Explore Our Work

• Chainguard Academy
• https://www.chainguard.dev

Base Salary Range

$205,000—$231,000 USD

About Us

• 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.

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.

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