177K–221K USD / year
Product Manager, Workload Connectivity
ProductRemote — United States
Published on 2026-11-06
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About this role
Own the strategy and roadmap for Tailscale’s Workload Connectivity product area, helping applications, services, and infrastructure securely connect across environments. Develop the developer experience and business model for areas including Kubernetes, ephemeral workloads, AI agent connectivity, and cloud integrations.
About the company
Tailscale builds a zero-config mesh VPN on WireGuard so teams can securely connect devices, servers, and cloud resources without traditional VPN complexity.
Stack
KubernetescontainersCI/CDcloud infrastructurenetworkingworkload identity
What you'll do
- Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Workload Connectivity.
- Define the end-to-end developer experience, including authentication, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Drive the Kubernetes operator roadmap and develop reference architectures and integrations.
- Partner across teams to shape pricing and packaging, and grow adoption and revenue.
- Define and track workload adoption, activation, retention, and revenue metrics.
- Build customer insight by working with developers, platform engineers, and infrastructure teams.
What we're looking for
- 7+ years of product management experience, including ownership of developer-facing infrastructure products.
- Technical fluency in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, networking, infrastructure automation, and workload identity.
- Experience building products for developers and platform engineers, with an appreciation for APIs, documentation, and operations.
- Track record owning products from strategy through launch, adoption, and measurable business impact.
- Strong commercial judgment and ability to lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity.
Nice to have
- Experience with usage-based pricing for developer infrastructure products.
- Hands-on Tailscale experience, particularly with Kubernetes or machine-to-machine connectivity.
- Public technical writing, conference talks, or open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Equity incentive plan.
- Remote-first work and a corporate coworking program.
- Employer retirement contributions matched dollar-for-dollar up to 0.75% of eligible compensation.
- Flexible paid time off.
- 20 weeks of parental leave for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- $1,500 annual professional development budget.
- $500 home-office setup allowance and monthly internet reimbursement.