Senior Product Manager (AI CICD)

Location: United States - Remote

Department: Product Management

Senior Product Manager, AI CI/CD

The role, in a nutshell:

Chainguard secures the software supply chain, and were standing up a new team to build a new product inside it.

Agents now write a large and growing share of the worlds code, and they inherited a CI system designed for humans who push a few times a day. Write, push, wait in a queue, reinstall the same toolchain, scrape the logs, try again. Agents iterate far more often than people do, so they feel every minute of that, and the workarounds theyve grown are worse than the thing theyre working around. We dont think the fix is a faster version of the CI you already have. We think CI gets rebuilt for agents, and thats what were doing.

The product isnt launched, so a job post is the wrong place for the details. What we can tell you now: the team is small, the hard technical pieces already run in production inside Chainguard, and youd be driving the product direction. 

What youll own:

• Strategy and roadmap. Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product. Decide what we build first, what comes next, and what were not going to do.
• 0→1 product work. Take this from a system that works for us to a product customers buy and use. Bring structure to problems that dont have any yet, make the tradeoff calls, and get things in front of users before they feel finished.
• How agents actually build software. Go deep on how developers and their agents write, test, review, and ship code today, including the parts nobody blogs about. Most of whats written about agentic development is aspirational. Youll work from what people really do.
• Design partners. Find the teams whose agent fleets are big enough to hurt, get the product into their hands early, and turn what they tell you into priorities.
• Developer experience. Adoption is the whole game here. Own how the product gets tried, configured, and lived with, so a team can move onto it without running a migration project.
• Launch. Positioning, naming, docs, the pricing model, and the story, with Product Marketing and the rest of Product. Youre also the person who says when its ready.
• Cross-functional leadership. Partner with Engineering, Experience, Product Marketing, and other Product leaders, and keep a small team pointed at the same thing while the space shifts underneath it.

What were looking for:

• 5+ years of product management experience on developer-facing, infrastructure, security, or similarly technical products.
• Youve built agent tools. Something agents use, or something people use to build with agents: a coding agent, an agent framework or harness, MCP servers, eval systems, or developer tooling meant to be driven by a model instead of a person. This is the requirement that matters most to us.
• You know CI from the inside. Builds, tests, caches, runners, artifacts, merge gates, and the specific reasons pipelines end up slow, flaky, and expensive. You should have opinions about why.
• You dont need to be a GitHub Actions expert. Were not building a better Actions, and years of workflow YAML isnt the experience were hiring for. Knowing where it breaks is.
• Experience taking a technical product from an early idea through launch and iteration.
• Judgment about what to leave out. A new product dies from doing too much as easily as from doing too little.
• Comfort with a deeply technical engineering team. You can hold your own in a design discussion and disagree with an engineer about a tradeoff.
• You talk to developers directly and often, and you can tell the difference between technology people find interesting and a product theyll actually adopt.
• You write well. We make decisions in documents here.
• You can operate on your own in a fast-moving area with no established playbook.

Nice to haves

• Youve run coding agents in production at real volume, or built the systems that keep them from breaking things.
• Experience with developer platforms, build systems, remote execution, or hosted development environments.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, registries, or other cloud-native infrastructure.
• Youve built security products for developers, and you know how fast a developer abandons one that gets in the way.
• Experience with products that serve individual developers and large enterprises at the same time.
• Youve owned your own teams CI at some point and hated it.

Explore Our Work

Dive into the practical side of what we do at Chainguard. These resources provide a hands-on look at our processes and offer an opportunity for in-depth understanding of our product offerings and the technology behind them.

• Chainguard Academy 
• https://www.chainguard.dev