Job Description
Locations; Cyprus; Czechia; Estonia; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovakia; Slovenia; Ukraine
Why Cast AI?
Cast AI is the leading Application Performance Automation (APA) platform, enabling customers to cut cloud costs, improve performance, and boost productivity – automatically.
Built originally for Kubernetes, Cast AI goes beyond cost and observability by delivering real-time, autonomous optimization across any cloud environment. The platform continuously analyzes workloads, rightsizes resources, and rebalances clusters without manual intervention, ensuring applications run faster, more reliably, and more efficiently.
Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Cast AI has employees in more than 32 countries worldwide and supports some of the world’s most innovative teams running their applications on all major cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Over 2,100 companies already rely on Cast – from BMW and Akamai to Hugging Face and NielsenIQ.
What’s next? Backed by our $108M Series C, we’re doubling down on making APA the new standard for DevOps and MLOps, and everything in between.
About the role
As a Senior Product Manager at Cast AI, you’ll drive our cloud-native platform forward by gathering user insights, shaping roadmaps, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, Kubernetes-powered products.
Responsibilities
- Lead and drive the development of the Database Optimization product (DBO) within the Cast AI platform.
- Work directly with software engineers at customer organizations to understand how they monitor, query, and optimize databases in production, and translate their challenges into actionable product improvements.
- Collaborate closely with Cast AI’s engineering teams who actively use the product, ensuring continuous feedback loops and product improvements.
- Conduct research together with the UX designer on database optimization tools and practices across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and other relational databases to inform product enhancements.
- Drive collaboration across internal teams (Engineering, UX, Sales, Customer Success) to ensure the product achieves adoption and sales goals.
- Own the product backlog: review, refine, and make prioritization decisions with the engineering team, balancing technical feasibility, customer needs, and business outcomes.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in leading and delivering B2B software products in a cloud-native environment, ideally in the database, observability, or performance optimization domain.
- Experience collaborating directly with customers as design partners, understanding their technical workflows, and turning feedback into product capabilities.
- Working knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB) including query planning, indexing strategies, and performance tuning. Not required to be a DBA, but must be comfortable engaging in technical discussions with engineers.
- Hands-on experience in defining and tracking product metrics (e.g. query performance, latency, index usage, resource costs) and using analytics tools (e.g. Amplitude, Mixpanel, Google Analytics) to support decision-making.
- Strong writing and communication skills — ability to clearly explain database optimization concepts and new features through PR/FAQ documents, release notes, and customer-facing materials.
- Familiarity with modern product management practices (e.g. outcome-driven roadmaps, discovery frameworks, lean experimentation).
- Education: Information Technology, Computer Science, or similar.
What’s in it for you?
- Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment.
- Collaborate with a global team of cloud experts and innovators, passionate about pushing the boundaries of Kubernetes technology.
- Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment.
- Equity options.
- Private health insurance.
- Get quick feedback with a fast-paced workflow. Most feature projects are completed in 1 to 4 weeks.
- Spend 10% of your work time on personal projects or self-improvement.
- Learning budget for professional and personal development – including access to international conferences and courses that elevate your skills.
- Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues.
- Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need.
- Extra days off to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.
