Principal Product Manager, Java Intelligence

Location: Remote in Europe or the EU; ideally based in Prague, Czech Republic, or Limassol, Cyprus.

Company

hirify.global develops Java runtimes and related products including hirify.global Intelligence Cloud, hirify.global Optimizer Hub, and Payara InSight.

What you will do

• Own product strategy, roadmap priorities, pricing, packaging, positioning, and business performance across hirify.global Intelligence Cloud, hirify.global Optimizer Hub, and Payara InSight.
• Define success metrics and use sales, pipeline, adoption, retention, pilot-to-production, customer, and market data to guide product decisions.
• Develop multi-year product direction, prioritize customer segments and use cases, and evaluate build, partner, and integration opportunities.
• Translate strategy into sequenced roadmap recommendations and align engineering, sales, marketing, finance, and senior leadership.
• Lead customer discovery, requirements, UX and UI priorities, product development lifecycle activities, demonstrations, technical documentation, launches, sales enablement, and competitive research.
• Build technical credibility around JVM architecture, JIT compilation, warm-up, cloud environments, and Kubernetes operator experience.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, including several years owning a product or product line end to end from strategy through launch and revenue.
• Track record shipping enterprise SaaS in an adjacent market: application performance monitoring, application security, observability, optimization, systems management, or log analytics.
• Fluency with AI tools and experience operating in an AI-first product management organization.
• Deep technical fluency, including the ability to read architecture diagrams, follow engineering discussions, and evaluate technical trade-offs.
• Demonstrated ownership of pricing and packaging for a technical product.
• Understanding of DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and developers as key influencers in enterprise sales cycles.
• Strong domain knowledge of public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as Kubernetes.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Comfort working fully remotely, asynchronously, and across multiple time zones; self-directed and a strong writer.
• Comfort working in a startup-shaped environment where bringing order to ambiguity is part of the role.

Nice to have

• Hands-on software or quality engineering experience, including writing code and debugging production systems.
• Experience with open source communities.
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization, including compute provisioning, monitoring, and optimization.
• Experience taking a new product from early traction to a durable revenue line.
• Working knowledge of Java and Java development tooling.
• Familiarity with Jakarta EE application servers such as Payara, WebLogic, WebSphere, or JBoss, and with OpenTelemetry.
• Experience working across multiple products at different stages or with different sales motions.
• Experience with infrastructure software that customers deploy and operate themselves, in addition to SaaS.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote, asynchronous, multi-time-zone working environment.
• Self-directed work with strong emphasis on written decision-making.
• Startup-shaped environment focused on bringing order to ambiguity.