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 the United States.
Responsibilities
- Own the long-term vision, product strategy, roadmap, adoption, revenue, and business results for the sandboxing 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, accessible product experiences
- Define product priorities, features, scope, and delivery plans in collaboration with engineering, design, security, operations, and go-to-market stakeholders
- Lead iterative product development by working with customers and cross-functional teams to test hypotheses, measure adoption and impact, learn from releases, and refine the roadmap
- Drive product initiatives that improve adoption, ecosystem integration, reliability, scalability, unit economics, and recurring revenue
- Establish clear product goals, OKRs, success metrics, and progress reporting to maintain alignment across teams
- Build strong relationships with customers, developers, partners, and internal stakeholders to strengthen product-market fit and ecosystem adoption
- Help foster a culture of experimentation, continuous learning, accountability, and rapid execution across distributed teams
- Guide the product from greenfield development through broader adoption and scale, balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution
- Over time, lead cross-functional initiatives that make secure, isolated code execution easier and more valuable for both developers and AI agents
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience as a product leader, combined with prior professional experience as a software engineer, ideally in systems, infrastructure, platform engineering, developer tools, or cloud environments
- Deep empathy for developers and a strong track record of conducting user research, engaging directly with technical users, and translating their needs into product decisions
- Strong technical understanding of sandboxes, microVMs, containers, virtualization technologies, and hypervisors, including their respective security and isolation boundaries
- Solid understanding of modern developer infrastructure, including Linux, container runtimes, orchestration, networking, storage, APIs, SDKs, and cloud services
- Experience designing, building, or operating systems that execute customer-provided, untrusted, or AI-generated code at scale
- Strong familiarity with software supply-chain and security considerations, including multi-tenant isolation, identity, secrets management, observability, and reliability
- Experience building B2B or SaaS products, preferably within public cloud, developer infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling environments
- Comfortable working through command-line interfaces and discussing technical architecture, APIs, and SDKs with engineers and developers
- Ability to break complex technical challenges into small, releasable features that deliver clear customer value
- Strong analytical capabilities, with experience using qualitative and quantitative data to define success metrics, evaluate performance, and prioritize investments
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical concepts understandable to diverse audiences
- Comfortable operating with significant ambiguity and taking ownership of large objectives with limited direction
- Collaborative, hands-on leadership style with experience working across fast-moving, distributed, and cross-functional teams
- Strong bias toward action, experimentation, continuous improvement, and learning
- Willingness to operate as both strategist and hands-on contributor in a lean, high-growth environment
- Candidates must be based in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available for this role
Conditions
- US compensation range of $184,100–$263,000, plus equity
- Fully remote, remote-first work environment
- Flexible scheduling designed to support different working styles and personal needs
- Generous paid time off, quarterly wellness days, and an end-of-year wellness 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 participation for full-time employees
- Comprehensive benefits, including medical coverage