VCluster Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Overview
About vCluster Labs
We are a venture-backed tech startup striving to be the leading force in enabling platform engineers. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture. We\'re the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (+10k GitHub stars). Open source is part of our DNA. The adoption of our commercial product based on vCluster has grown extremely fast (multi-million dollar revenue) and our customer base includes some of the biggest companies in the world, including 6 Global Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the fastest-growing tech unicorns.
Responsibilities
* Project Leadership: Manage and lead projects, ensuring timely delivery, quality, and alignment with business objectives.
* Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with engineers, architects, product managers, and business stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
* Technical Planning & Execution: Develop detailed project plans, manage resources, and execute tasks to deliver solutions.
* Risk Management: Proactively identify project risks, issues, and dependencies. Implement mitigation strategies and ensure that teams remain on track to meet deadlines.
* Collaboration & Communication: Facilitate clear communication among team members and stakeholders, ensuring that all parties are informed of progress, roadblocks, and key milestones.
* Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement in the development and deployment process, leveraging feedback and retrospectives to refine and optimize workflows.
Required Qualifications
* Experience: 3+ years of experience in project management, ideally within a cloud-native or DevOps-focused environment.
* Project Management Skills:
o Proven track record of managing complex technical projects, ideally in a cloud or infrastructure environment.
o Experience with Kanban using project tracking tools
o Excellent time management skills and ability to handle multiple competing priorities.
* Communication & Leadership:
o Strong verbal and written communication skills.
o Ability to translate technical details to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
o Strong leadership and team collaboration skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams.
* Technical Expertise:
o Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
o Understanding of Kubernetes architecture and deployment models (e.g., on-prem, cloud, hybrid).
o Familiarity with containerization concepts (Docker, Helm, etc.).
o Understanding of DevOps principles including CI/CD pipelines, automation, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
Benefits
* Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.
* Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
* Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
* Workplace Flexibility: We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.
Culture & Values
* Technical Excellence: We are determined to build best-in-class technology and ship high-quality software because we know that our users are engineers themselves.
* Customer Obsession: We are going above and beyond to make our customers and users happy, which means striving for great usability, excellent documentation and support as well as fast response times for feature requests and bug reports.
* Impressive Speed: From user feedback to shipping a new feature to address this feedback, we usually take less than a week in most cases and our users absolutely love us for this.
* Bold Innovation: We are constantly questioning the state-of-the-art to find and address important issues in our space, even if that means abandoning any existing technologies and starting from scratch again.
* Open Source & Open Mind: We are actively contributing and maintaining open-source projects and we believe that building an open-minded team culture that respects different perspectives and welcomes constructive feedback is equally paramount to our success.
vCluster Labs provides equal opportunities for all candidates. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone who becomes part of our team. We are also actively promoting measures to reduce bias throughout our hiring process to ensure that everyone gets the same opportunities.
Compensation Range: €70K - €85K
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