Senior Product Manager – Core Platform
Camunda
About the role
Location
Wollaston Lake
Overview
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Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes, including high-value knowledge work, across agents, people, and systems. By creating production-ready, enterprise‑grade agents with built‑in governance, Camunda uniquely delivers trusted AI agents for business‑critical processes. Over 700 leading innovators rely on Camunda to slash time‑to‑value, boost operational efficiency, and elevate customer experiences. Camunda was named a Visionary in the inaugural 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT).
As a fully remote, global company, we’re recognized as a Great Place to Work and are known for true flexibility. We’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you’re excited to do meaningful work and make real impact, keep reading — this role could be the one you’ve been waiting for.
About the role
We are seeking a talented and technically proficient Senior Product Manager to lead the development and evolution of our Core Platform, including Zeebe, the cloud‑native workflow engine at the heart of Camunda. This role is both technical and product‑focused, requiring a deep understanding of customer needs, system scalability, performance, reliability, and security.
As the Senior Product Manager for the Core Platform, you will work closely with engineering teams, customers, and stakeholders to define and execute the product strategy for our distributed workflow orchestration engine. You will drive the roadmap for foundational platform capabilities and ensure the platform meets the complex requirements of distributed systems at scale.
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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 driving innovation to improve 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.
- Collaborate with Pre‑Sales Engineers, Solution Architects, and other Field teams; assess demand, market differentiation, and the competitive landscape.
What You Bring
- Ability and/or willingness to use our product.
- Experience with platform products used by IT departments at large enterprise companies (developers, automation engineers, ops teams).
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in distributed systems, technical SaaS products, PaaS, or cloud‑native products.
- Experience with OKRs, customer research techniques, product design, Go‑To‑Market planning, backlog management, and Agile teams.
- Strong communication skills, internal collaboration, and external presentations to customers.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, event‑driven architecture, and performance optimization.
Nice‑to‑haves
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Experience with IT platforms in banking, financial services, and insurance sectors.
- Technical knowledge of configuring, deploying, and managing the life cycle of platform products.
What We Have to Offer
- Compensation: We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location‑based with standard and major market tiers.
- Equity: Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP) where applicable.
- Benefits & Perks: Remote & Flexible work, in‑person connections, health and wellbeing programs, financial security, and opportunities for professional growth.
- More details: Global benefits information available.
“Everyone is welcome at Camunda.” We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristics under applicable law. We look forward to your application!
AI Disclaimer: Camunda may use AI tools to aid the screening of applications.
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Requirements
- Ability and/or willingness to use our product.
- Experience with platform products used by IT departments at large enterprise companies (developers, automation engineers, ops teams).
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in distributed systems, technical SaaS products, PaaS, or cloud-native products.
- Experience with OKRs, customer research techniques, product design, Go-To-Market planning, backlog management, and Agile teams.
- Strong communication skills, internal collaboration, and external presentations to customers.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, event-driven architecture, and performance optimization.
Responsibilities
- 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 driving innovation to improve 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.
- Collaborate with Pre-Sales Engineers, Solution Architects, and other Field teams; assess demand, market differentiation, and the competitive landscape.
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