Senior Product Manager - Core Platform

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Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes, including high-value knowledge work, across agents, people, and systems. By creating production-ready, enterprise-grade agents with built-in governance, Camunda uniquely delivers trusted AI agents for business-critical processes. Over 700 leading innovators like Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, rely on Camunda to slash time-to-value from months to days, boost operational efficiency, and elevate customer experiences. Camunda was named a Visionary in the inaugural 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT).

As a fully remote, global company, we’re rewriting the rules of modern business. Named GP Bullhound’s 2024 Top 100 Next Unicorn list, certified as a Great Place to Work, and recognized by Flexa for true flexibility, we’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you’re excited to do meaningful work and make real impact, keep reading, this role could be the one you’ve been waiting for.

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.

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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.

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What We Have to Offer:

Compensation

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition.

The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) shown below spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills, experience, and location, and we typically hire in the first half of the range to allow room for growth:

United States: $119,900.00 to $193,200.00

Canada: €77,400.00 to €128,100.00

United Kingdom: £75,300.00 to £123,800.00

Singapore: S$148,900.00 to S$223,300.00

If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com (our global employer partner), and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview.

Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

Benefits & Perks

We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you’re based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when you need it.

• In Person Connection: We invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling,, and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.

• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life, not just work, from: staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.

• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.

• Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!

• More of what we offer globally & in your country can be found here.

”Everyone is welcome at Camunda” — it’s a celebrated component of our culture. We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our people. At Camunda, we honour diverse cultures and backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristics under applicable law. We are looking forward to your application!

Come join us and be part of Camunda’s incredible journey: Make an impact at a pivotal moment in our story!

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