Product Manager

Overview

Why CAST AI?

CAST AI is the leading Kubernetes cost optimization platform for AWS, GCP and Azure customers. The company is on a mission to deliver a fully automated Kubernetes experience. What’s unique about CAST AI is that its platform goes beyond monitoring clusters and making recommendations; it utilizes advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and automatically optimize clusters, saving customers 50% or more on their cloud spend, improving performance and reliability, and boosting DevOps and engineering productivity.

The company has raised $73M from investors, including Cota Capital, Creandum, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Vintage Investment Partners. CAST AI has over 160 employees globally and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

This is just the beginning of our product; there are so many cool things to do. We are seeking experienced product managers to help us develop our product further!

Core values that hold us all together:

PRACTICE CUSTOMER OBSESSION. Focus on the customer journey and work backwards. Strive to deliver customer value and continuously solve customer problems. Listen to customer feedback, act, and iterate to improve customer experience.

LEAD. Take ownership and lead through action. Think and act on behalf of the entire company to build long-term value across team boundaries.

DEVELOP AND HIRE THE BEST. Strive to raise the performance bar by continuously investing in yourself, the team and by hiring the best possible candidates for every position. Drive towards personal development and professional growth, and mentor others to raise the collective bar.

EXPECT AND ADVOCATE CHANGE. Strive to innovate and accept the inevitable change that comes with innovation. Constantly welcome new ideas and opinions. Share insights responsibly with unwavering openness, honesty, and respect. Once a path is chosen, be ready to disagree and commit to a direction.

 

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Role overview

• Wear multiple hats (e.g. PM, PO, Scrum master, QA, BA) to drive the development of CAST AI platform
• Work directly with users, product teams, and other stakeholders to collect feedback
• Do market research research to create a more compelling product/feature proposal
• Work across the organizational and role boundaries to ultimately make the product better
• Review backlogs and make prioritization decisions together with the team
• Conduct user research interviews together with the UX designer
• Lead process improvements in the Product Management team and across the wider organization.

 

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Requirements

• Ideally, a strong engineering background, as the domain and product are very technical
• Experience in building B2B software products & familiarity with the concepts of public cloud offerings
• Hands-on experience in establishing and collecting product metrics (e.g. Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude) to derive insights that inform product development decisions
• Writing skills are critical in this role. You must be able to communicate product features and new services through well-understood formats such as PR / FAQ or other narrative formats that describe the feature/product vision and desired customer experience
• Kubernetes certification (e.g. CKA, CKAD) – you must either already have it or successfully complete it within the first 6 months from the start
• Customer focus and hands-on experience in gathering user feedback. Strong spoken English skills are required
• Familiarity with and willingness to work according to modern product management practices
• Education: Information Technology, Computer Science, or similar.

 

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What’s in it for you?

• Team of highly skilled professionals to work with and learn from

• Impact and visibility. Our organization is flat, getting in touch with CEO or CTO is a common practice here
• Monthly salary from 5000 – 7000 Eur (gross) depending on the level of experience

• Short feedback loop. We have an obsession with customer satisfaction. We ship features fast and gets instant feedback. Feature projects tend to be completed in 1 to 4 weeks, depending on the scope

• Flexible working hours. We deliver instead of sitting in the office 8 to 5

• Skin in the game. Every employee gets a share of the company

• Time to focus on work with a minimum overhead of meetings, bureaucracy, etc.

• 10% time to focus on self-improvement or personal projects.

Tagged as: 5+ Years, Kubernetes