Principal Product Manager - ESC

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - 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.

Required Skills

• - 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.

Benefits

• - Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees.
• - Unlimited PTO policy encouraging balance and rest.
• - 401(k) plan with an employer match.
• - 20 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents or primary caregivers, and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents or secondary caregivers.
• - Remote-first culture with flexible work and an annual 'work from anywhere' stipend.
• - Annual learning and development budget.
• - Equity ownership for all employees.
• - Monthly wellness fund and quarterly happiness fund.