Senior Product Manager, Kubernetes Platform

What You'll Be Doing:

Building on Lilly's technical foundation, you will drive the Hangar platform vision to scale world-wide software solutions, improve deployment quality, and increase system resilience. You will define how teams provision infrastructure, monitor service health, optimize deployments, and leverage emerging technologies like AI agents to automate operations.

As the Product Manager for Hangar, you will establish Lilly as a leader in platform engineering by creating capabilities that turn infrastructure complexity into seamless workflows for engineering teams. This role requires balancing technical depth with customer‑centric thinking, ensuring our platform investments deliver measurable results.

• Define and drive the Hangar platform strategy, establishing how Lilly engineers leverage k8s 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.
• Written 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
• Serve as the voice of the developer, advocating for improvements that reduce toil and increase velocity

• 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
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F‑1 CPT, F‑1 OPT, F‑1 STEM OPT, J‑1, H‑1B, TN, O‑1, E‑3, H‑1B1, or L‑1.

• 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

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