Director of Product Management
Pax8
🚀 Director of Product Management, Platform Engineering
🌟 What You’ll Do:
- Set the Vision: Define and drive the strategy for platform-as-a-product, aligning roadmaps with company goals and future growth.
- Lead with Purpose: Manage and mentor a team of product managers, instilling strong product thinking and outcome orientation.
- Build for Scale: Guide the development of infrastructure, developer tools, and services that are simple, secure, and scalable.
- Collaborate Deeply: Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Security, and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful value.
- Drive Outcomes: Translate vision into focused roadmaps tied to business OKRs, and track performance across the product portfolio.
- Champion Innovation: Identify new investment areas and advocate for platform capabilities that unlock business potential.
- Empower Teams: Remove blockers, streamline dependencies, and ensure efficient execution across teams.
🧠 What You Bring:
- 8+ years of product management experience in technical domains like platform engineering, infrastructure, or developer tooling.
- Proven success leading PMs to deliver complex, high-impact products.
- Deep understanding of developer pain points across the SDLC.
- Strong business acumen with a focus on ROI and outcome-driven decision-making.
- Excellent communication, mentoring, and conflict resolution skills.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action.
- Experience using AI tools to enhance product management and platform engineering practices.
💡 You’ll Thrive at Pax8 If You:
- Lead with Compassionate Candor – You give and receive feedback with clarity and care.
- Seek to Understand – You’re curious, open, and committed to learning.
- Put We Before Me – You collaborate across teams and value diverse perspectives.
- Do What You Say – You take ownership and deliver on your commitments.
- Light Up Learning – You’re bold, experimental, and not afraid to share lessons from failure.
- Are Driven by Passion – You connect your work to purpose and persevere through challenges.
Why Pax8?
Required Education & Certifications:
- B.A./B.S. in related field or equivalent work experience.
We are using Mokka as an AI evaluation tool, once you completed this application you will receive an email from Mokka to complete an additional form.
Compensation:
- Qualified candidates can expect a salary range of $165,000-$200,000 or more depending on experience
Expected Closing Date: 1/30/2026
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Perks:
Why Join Pax8?
Because here, success isn't just about numbers—it’s about impact.
It’s about being part of a team that thinks bigger, empowers each other, and never loses sight of why we do what we do: to make the cloud easier, more accessible, and more meaningful.
At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:
Non-Commissioned Bonus Plans or Variable Commission
401(k) plan with employer match
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Employer Paid Short & Long Term Disability, Life and AD&D Insurance
Flexible, Open Vacation
Paid Sick Time Off
Extended Leave for Life events
RTD Eco Pass (For local Colorado Employees)
Career Development Programs
Stock Option Eligibility
Employee-led Resource Groups
Please take a moment to review our Proprietary Rights and Non-Competition Agreement — this document outlines important information about your rights and responsibilities if you join our team.
Pax8 is an EEOC Employer.
Equal Opportunities
Pax8 is an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country the role is based in. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with Data Privacy best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes.