Senior Product Manager - Core Platform

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex, end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production — safely and at scale.

Fully remote and global, we are transforming into an AI-first organisation, built on our own platform. We're growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team.

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.

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.

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.
• Technical knowledge of configuring, deploying, managing the life cycle of platform products.