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Location & Travel

This is a hybrid role that requires in-person work three days a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We believe this approach balances flexibility with the value of in-person collaboration and community.

Our current office is located at:

3120 139th Avenue SE, Suite 500
Bellevue, WA 98005

Please note: we are planning to relocate to a more central location in the near future.

The Opportunity

At Stacklok, we’re building the foundation for the next evolution in software: the shift from applications to intelligent agents. Our open source platform, ToolHive, enables developers to securely connect agentic and assistive systems to the real-world tools, data, and environments they rely on, delivering the right context at the right time, with full control.

We’re hiring a Director of Product Management to lead ToolHive toward product-market fit and beyond. Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll shape our product strategy, drive roadmap execution, and position Stacklok as the infrastructure layer for secure, context-rich AI systems.

Your initial focus will be balancing product and community focused work. Partnering with early design partners and customers to help ToolHive deliver measurable value to developers. From there, you’ll guide the product’s expansion into broader enterprise workflows, enabling organizations to deploy agentic and assistive systems that empower knowledge workers effectively and securely.

As an open source company your role will be highly visible to the community, building a reputation as a thought leader in the agentic space, and representing Stacklok in community facing activities to build awareness and engagement.

This is a hands-on product leadership role. You’ll collaborate closely with the executive team, Engineering, and GTM leads, own roadmap delivery end to end, and serve as a key voice for Stacklok in the market and community.

What Success Looks Like: First 6-12 months

• Product evolution: ToolHive (the product you are driving) will be demonstrating strong product market fit with an engaged cohort of passionate users. This will be validated by developer activation, sustained usage, and growing enterprise demand. This was achieved by deeply engaging with early users and design partners to align product capabilities with real-world needs. This will lead to a simple and repeatable sales process for commercial products led by OSS community engagement and adoption.
  
  
• Roadmap Defined and Expanded: You defined and executed a phased product roadmap grounded in developer feedback and early customer insight. It initially unlocked value by enhancing AI systems like coding assistants and agents, through secure access to real-world tools. Over time, you expanded ToolHive’s utility to support knowledge workers across enterprise teams, enabling organizations to shape their own agentic experiences safely and flexibly.
  
  
• Enterprise Platform Maturity Reached: You evolved ToolHive into a secure, extensible platform ready for enterprise deployment—delivering foundational capabilities like policy enforcement, authentication, telemetry, multi-tenancy, and pluggability. You partnered closely with design customers to validate priorities and shape the user experience for real-world adoption.
  
  
• Strategic Partnerships in Motion: You identified and activated high-leverage partnerships with developer tool vendors, integrators, and consultancies. embedding ToolHive into emerging service offerings and positioning Stacklok as a core infrastructure provider in the agentic AI ecosystem.
  
  
• Go-To-Market Foundation Laid: You established core GTM capabilities. defining pricing, packaging, and enterprise support offerings, while partnering across Sales and Marketing to drive activation, retention, and expansion.
  
  
• Stacklok’s External Presence Elevated: You became a key public advocate for Stacklok, advancing its vision through content, conference presence, and strategic storytelling that reinforced ToolHive’s leadership in secure, contextual AI enablement.

In This Role, You Will:

• Drive product strategy: Work with C-suite to define priorities, make tradeoffs, and sequence roadmap investments based on developer needs, enterprise constraints, and market dynamics.
  
  
• Lead product discovery: Engage early adopters and design partners to translate feedback and usage data into focused, high-impact product decisions.
  
  
• Define and deliver features: Own product requirements and collaborate with Engineering to build secure, scalable, developer-first capabilities.
  
  
• Extend ToolHive beyond developers: Enable support for knowledge workers through pluggable interfaces, customizable agent workflows, and secure system integration.
  
  
• Drive adoption through data: Use telemetry, behavioral insights, and user feedback to measure engagement, identify friction, and inform iteration.
  
  
• Build a thriving integration ecosystem: Forge and negotiate partnerships with developer tools, cloud platforms, and AI providers that expand ToolHive’s reach and value.
  
  
• Enable go-to-market success: Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Success teams to shape messaging, support product launches, and scale customer enablement.
  
  
• Align and energize internal teams: Bring clarity, context, and urgency to cross-functional teams across Engineering, Design, and GTM.
  
  
• Be Stacklok’s external voice: Represent the company through thought leadership, talks, and community engagement across AI infrastructure and developer ecosystems.
  
  
• Stay ahead of the market: Monitor trends, customer shifts, and competitive movements to ensure ToolHive’s roadmap stays one step ahead.

We Understand

Not everyone will meet every requirement listed, and that’s perfectly okay. We encourage you to apply regardless of your self-assessment. We value a diverse range of skills and experiences and believe your unique perspective can make a significant impact. We want to hear from you!

Desired Skills & Experience

• Enterprise Software Product Leadership: Proven success as a Lead or Principal Product Manager delivering complex software platforms in enterprise environments, particularly those requiring extensibility, security, or deep integration. Experience with developer-facing products is a strong plus.
  
  
• Applied AI Product Experience: Practical experience with agentic systems, AI coding assistants, or LLM-driven workflows, paired with a strong understanding of the evolving applied AI landscape and adjacent tool ecosystems.
  
  
• Product Discovery & Strategic Thinking: Skilled in engaging users and design partners, interpreting signals from feedback and usage data, and translating insights into roadmap decisions and product differentiation.
  
  
• Go-to-Market & Commercialization Strategy: Experience defining pricing, packaging, and launch strategies for enterprise software offerings, ideally including commercial open source products. Familiar with models such as Open Core, Managed Service, and SaaS.
  
  
• Ecosystem Partnerships & Integrations: Demonstrated ability to identify and execute high-leverage partnerships that expand product utility, distribution, or stickiness within the developer and enterprise ecosystem.
  
  
• Technical Communication & Developer Engagement: Clear, concise communicator with the ability to influence product direction, align stakeholders, and build trust with developers through writing, speaking, and open source interaction.
  
  
• Executional Agility: Thrives in fast-moving, early-stage settings. Builds momentum through customer engagement, clarity of thinking, and adaptability to changing conditions.

Base Salary Range: $251,750 - $318,000

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