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. You will work closely with engineering teams, customers, and stakeholders to define and execute the product strategy for our distributed workflow orchestration engine.

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.
• Continuously assess Camunda demand, market differentiation and the competitive landscape in close collaboration with 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 with 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.
• Technical knowledge of configuring, deploying, managing the life cycle of platform products.

Compensation

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location‑based, with Standard and Major markets reflecting local competition.

• United States: $119,900 – $193,200
• Canada: €77,400 – €128,100
• United Kingdom: £75,300 – £123,800
• Singapore: S$148,900 – S$223,300

Equity is offered where applicable through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

Benefits & Perks

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co‑working space support, and flexible time off.
• In Person Connection: Annual Kickoff, team offsites, and connection budgets for meetups and local gatherings.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access to locally tailored healthcare, global mental wellbeing support, and a flexible wellbeing spending account.
• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans, life and disability insurance where relevant.
• Professional Growth: Up to $1,000 per year for self‑driven learning (courses, certifications, books).

Equal Opportunity Employer

Everyone is welcome at Camunda. We’re proud to be 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.

AI in our hiring process

Camunda may use AI tools to aid the screening of applications and during the interview process.