Senior Product Manager - Core Platform (Remote)

About the role

We are seeking a talented and technically proficient Senior Product Manager to lead the development and evolution of our Core 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’ll Be Doing

• 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 core 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 Bring

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience working with IT platforms in banking, financial services, and insurance sector.
• Techical knowledge of configuring, deploying, managing the life cycle of platform products.

Compensation

What We Have to 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.

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.
• 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!

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#USEAST This role is an existing vacancy/an upcoming vacancy