Product Manager, Networking Features

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Tailscale's networking functionalities: App Connectors, DNS, Funnel, and Tailscale Services.

• Manage the operator experience within the admin console and CLI, focusing on configuration, segmentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting at scale.

• Collaborate with GTM, Customer Success, and Solutions Engineering on production commitments and strategic partnerships.

• Advocate for the transition from reverse proxies, bastion hosts, cloud ingress, and service meshes to Tailscale.

• Develop systematic customer insights across Tailscale users, from homelab operators to large enterprises replacing service registries.

• Create user-facing networking experiences, including object models, defaults, and error messages.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in product management.

• Direct experience with an application-layer connectivity product, such as reverse proxies, ingress controllers or gateways, API gateways, service meshes or service registries, DNS and traffic management, secure tunneling and exposure products, or identity-aware proxy connectors.

• Proven ability to simplify complex networking systems into an understandable product surface.

• Proficient in designing and explaining an object model, defaults, or configuration experience.

• Comprehensive product ownership encompassing strategy, requirements, launch, documentation, enablement, rollout, and post-launch iteration.

• Demonstrated data-informed decision-making capabilities, including established metrics and instrumentation.

• Nice to have: Experience in Product Led Growth.

• Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes networking, including ingress, Gateway API, operators, or service exposure patterns.

• Nice to have: Practical experience with secure tunneling and exposure products.

• Nice to have: Background in abuse prevention, rate limiting, or trust and safety for publicly exposed services.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with VPN and tunneling protocols, BGP, cloud VPC peering, or PrivateLink-style private connectivity.

• Nice to have: Public technical writing, conference presentations, or open-source networking contributions.

• Nice to have: Hands-on experience with Tailscale.

🏝️ Benefits

• An inclusive and adaptable environment that offers flexibility in how and when you work.

• A competitive total compensation package, including an equity incentive plan.

• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period, covering health, vision, and dental for employees and their families.

• A remote-first work culture.

• Opportunities for virtual and in-person social events.

• A corporate co-working program.

• Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 0.75% of eligible compensation annually.

• Annual company retreat and team off-site events.

• $1,500 USD annually allocated for professional development.

• Access to mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.

• A flexible paid time off program.

• Company-provided Mac or PC laptop.

• Monthly reimbursement for home internet expenses.

• $500 USD allowance for home office customization.

• Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.