Senior Product Manager, Kubernetes Platform

Role Summary

Senior Product Manager, Kubernetes Platform responsible for leading Lilly’s Global Kubernetes infrastructure platform (Hangar). Owns the product vision, roadmap, delivery, and adoption to empower hundreds of engineers across the enterprise and drive developer productivity at Lilly.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Hangar platform strategy, establishing how Lilly engineers leverage Kubernetes to deploy services at organizational scale
• Partner with technical leadership to align platform capabilities with enterprise architecture and security requirements
• Drive end-to-end platform adoption through technical user engagement, education, documentation, and enablement
• Understand the platform ecosystem and how AI Agents can improve it
• Reference CNCF and other sources to provide the Hangar technical leads with product requirements
• Write product requirements documentation and alignment
• Gather customer feedback and translate technical requirements into platform features
• Monitor industry trends in platform engineering, developer experience, AI ops, and cloud-native technologies
• Partner with technical pod leads to ensure platform roadmap reflects real-world engineering challenges
• Advocate for improvements that reduce toil and increase velocity

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of product management experience with at least 3 years in developer platforms or infrastructure products
• Experience working in cloud-native environments with container orchestration

Skills

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes (k8s), deployment patterns, and operations
• Experience with service architecture, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical stakeholders and drive platform adoption
• Excellence in translating technical concepts into compelling product narratives
• Strong customer empathy and a growth mindset
• Outstanding communication skills with ability to engage developers and technical leaders
• Proficiency in agile software development
• Prior experience as a software developer or platform engineer is a plus
• Proven track record of driving adoption of technical platforms across engineering organizations