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Chainguard is the trusted source for hardened, secure, production-ready open source software. The company serves Fortune 500 enterprises and global leaders including OpenAI, Snap, Snowflake, and Anduril, and is backed by top-tier VCs including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Lightspeed.
As Senior Product Manager for Experience, you will own the product strategy and execution for Chainguard's core user experience across the Console and public Directory. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of product experience, developer-led growth, and platform strategy.
Key responsibilities include:
**Product Experience Strategy & Roadmap**: Own the vision and roadmap for Console and Directory experiences. Identify high-impact opportunities to simplify workflows, connect products, and create cohesive experiences as the portfolio grows.
**Onboarding & Activation**: Define how new users discover, evaluate, and get started with Chainguard. Reduce friction in onboarding and time-to-value, helping users quickly understand next steps.
**Developer-Led & Product-Led Growth**: Partner with GTM, Growth, Design, and Engineering to build experiences that drive self-service adoption, engagement, and conversion. Develop deep understanding of user journeys and continuously improve moments that influence activation, retention, and expansion.
**Subscription & Account Management**: Shape the customer experience for managing subscriptions, plans, access, and cross-product capabilities. Ensure workflows are intuitive and scalable as commercial offerings evolve.
**Cross-Product Experience**: Create consistency across products so customers experience Chainguard as one platform. Partner with PMs across the organization to identify shared workflows and establish scalable patterns.
**Cross-Functional Leadership**: Work closely with Engineering, Design, GTM, and other Product leaders to turn customer and business needs into focused roadmaps. Bring clarity to ambiguous problems, drive alignment, and make thoughtful tradeoffs.
Required qualifications: 5+ years of Product Management experience, ideally with developer-facing, SaaS, platform, or enterprise products. Experience owning user-facing product experiences from strategy through launch and iteration. Demonstrated success improving onboarding, activation, engagement, conversion, or other product-growth metrics. Strong product instincts around UX and customer journeys with ability to partner deeply with Design. Experience building cross-product or platform experiences serving multiple customer segments. Comfortable using data, customer research, and experimentation to identify friction and prioritize improvements. Strong cross-functional leadership skills. Comfortable operating in ambiguity and translating broad growth objectives into clear product priorities.
Nice-to-haves include experience with developer tools, infrastructure, or security products; product-led or developer-led growth motions; subscription management and billing; B2B products serving both individual developers and enterprises; and building shared design patterns across multi-product portfolios.
About Chainguard
AI / Data / Infrastructure; Legal / Compliance / Risk — software supply-chain security and trusted container images.
