About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Product Manager, Sandboxes based in Canada.
Responsibilities
- Own the long-term vision, product strategy, roadmap, revenue, adoption, and business results for the sandbox product area
- Develop a deep understanding of developers, customers, their workflows, and the security, performance, compatibility, and cost constraints they face
- Engage directly with developers building AI agents, coding environments, CI and testing systems, and other workloads requiring secure, isolated execution
- Translate complex infrastructure tradeoffs involving isolation, startup time, performance, density, networking, storage, and cost into simple, compelling product experiences
- Define product priorities, feature scope, success metrics, and roadmap decisions in close partnership with engineering, design, security, operations, and go-to-market teams
- Lead iterative product development by working with customers and cross-functional teams to test hypotheses, measure adoption and impact, learn from releases, and continuously improve
- Drive product initiatives that strengthen adoption, ecosystem integration, reliability, scalability, unit economics, and revenue
- Build strong relationships across the developer ecosystem and use customer feedback and market insights to guide product investments
- Establish clear quarterly goals, OKRs, and progress reporting while maintaining accountability for major product outcomes
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that make secure isolated execution accessible, reliable, and valuable for both developers and AI agents
Requirements
- Significant product leadership experience, combined with prior professional experience as a software engineer, ideally within systems, infrastructure, platform engineering, developer tools, or cloud environments
- Deep empathy for developers and a demonstrated commitment to engaging directly with users to understand their needs and workflows
- Strong technical knowledge of sandboxes, microVMs, containers, virtualization technologies, and hypervisors, including their respective isolation and security boundaries
- Solid understanding of modern developer infrastructure, including Linux, container runtimes, orchestration, networking, storage, APIs, and cloud services
- Experience designing, building, or operating systems capable of executing customer-provided, untrusted, or AI-generated code at scale
- Comfort working through command-line interfaces and discussing APIs, SDKs, system architecture, and technical tradeoffs with engineers
- Experience building B2B or SaaS products, or a strong background in public cloud and developer infrastructure
- Knowledge of software supply-chain and security considerations, including multi-tenant isolation, identity, secrets management, observability, and reliability
- Ability to break complex technical challenges into small, valuable, releasable product increments
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to combine qualitative and quantitative data to define success metrics and prioritize investments
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical concepts accessible to diverse audiences
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving, distributed, and cross-functional environments
- A collaborative, hands-on mindset with the ability to balance strategic thinking with execution and ownership
- Experience taking products from greenfield development through scale is highly valuable
- Candidates must be authorized to work in Canada; visa sponsorship is not available for this role
Conditions
- Remote-first work environment with flexibility to manage your schedule and work from home
- Access to offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration
- Generous paid time off, quarterly Whaleness Days, and an end-of-year Whaleness break
- Home office support to help create a productive and comfortable workspace
- Technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month
- Annual learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued education
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment
- Equity opportunities for full-time employees
- Comprehensive medical and retirement benefits, with coverage varying by country
- Paid holidays
- Compensation in Canada: CA$255,500–CA$365,000 plus equity