Why this role is unique
- You are building infrastructure for developers with strong, informed opinions and a low tolerance for inauthenticity.
- Earning technical credibility matters, even if you are not an engineer — you’ll be making product calls about compute, databases, and scaling.
- You own a real slice of the product end to end and operate in real ambiguity, helping define what Laravel Cloud becomes.
- Product is a team sport here. Engineering, design, and marketing are true partners.
What you will do
- Own products end-to-end. Take an area of Laravel Cloud from conception to launch — discovery, prioritization, and shipping — and know it better than anyone in the company.
- Partner closely with engineering. Define scope and appetite together with engineering, bringing the why, the who, and the when while the team owns the how.
- Stay close to customers. Talk to customers regularly — enterprise calls, community signal, direct interviews — and let what you learn drive prioritization.
- Be data-driven on outcomes. “We shipped it” isn’t the finish line — adoption is. Track how features are adopted and used, and prioritize based on what the data says.
- Be the connective tissue. Brief marketing and sales ahead of launches and own the holistic experience, so your area feels coherent, not just complete.
What the ideal candidate brings
- Good taste and a high craft bar. You have opinions about what makes product feel right and defend them, holding design and engineering to a high standard.
- Focus on what matters. Comfortable juggling several projects at once, with ruthless prioritization and clear async communication.
- Competitive awareness. You know the landscape cold — Heroku, Vercel, Railway, Render, Fly — and what good looks like on observability, deploy ergonomics, and billing transparency.
- Technical curiosity. Learns infrastructure concepts proactively to maintain credibility with technical audiences.
- Customer-first, collaborative DNA. Strong cross-functional partnerships, with a focus on developer value over shipping features.
- Comfort with early-stage ambiguity. Enjoys experimentation and iteration, and building the plane while flying it.
What success looks like
- Velocity. You ship fast and on time — speed is core to how we work, and PMs have outsized impact on it.
- Quality. You ship with the level of quality synonymous with Laravel, scoping with engineering so work lands well the first time.
- Outcomes. Your area is adopted and your customers are satisfied — not just launched.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
- 2 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (0 to 1, ideation through execution).
- Experience developing or launching infrastructure products or technologies — compute, databases, storage, networking, file systems, or other software infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with cloud, platform-as-a-service, or developer-tools products.
- Familiarity with Laravel, PHP, or modern web application development.
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, and other stakeholders.
- Comfort working closely with engineering to shape scope, in a fast-moving, async-first environment.
- Background in software development or engineering.