Principal Product Manager (Kubernetes)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States; hybrid at the San Francisco or San Jose office

Salary: $220,000–$240,000 OTE annually

Company

hirify.global provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform for preventing, detecting, and mitigating security breaches in Kubernetes clusters.

What you will do

• Define product vision and roadmap for major Calico platform initiatives from MVP through GA and subsequent releases.
• Drive the extension of Calico’s converged networking for VM workloads in Kubernetes.
• Develop competitive positioning around unified networking, microsegmentation, DNS policy, cluster-mesh, and observability.
• Shape sales-led and partner-led go-to-market strategies, including sales enablement and partner co-selling.
• Run structured enterprise customer discovery and validation before committing engineering resources.
• Own the first five deals, capture learnings, and build a repeatable playbook for sales and solutions engineering.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, including senior or principal-level ownership of technical infrastructure products.
• Track record of taking products from vision to GA and revenue.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native networking and security, including CNI, network policy, microsegmentation, L2/L3 networking, and eBPF.
• Experience with competitive positioning, messaging frameworks, and maintaining messaging consistency across an organization.
• Enterprise go-to-market experience, including sales enablement, engagement with senior technical buyers, and partner co-selling.
• Strong customer-discovery, prioritization, communication, and execution skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and flexible work environment based on respect, openness, and teamwork.
• Full health, vision, and dental benefits.
• Team presence across offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver, Cork, and London.
• Opportunity to work on networking and security for cloud-native applications, AI agents, containers, and virtual machines.