Full-Time

Product Manager

Orkes

Orkes

51-200 employees

Managed platform for distributed system orchestration

Compensation Overview

$150k - $180k/yr

Seattle, WA, USA + 1 more

More locations: Oakland, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
Product (1)
Requirements
  • The candidate must have proven experience as a Product Manager for a technology product, preferably a product for application developers, with a track record of driving growth and optimization.
  • The candidate must have previous exposure to and understanding of product-led growth strategies, including alignment with Go-to-Market teams.
  • The candidate must have proven experience bringing structured thinking and prioritization to what needs to be built and launched while thriving in an environment where there is ambiguity.
  • The candidate must have a results-oriented mindset with a focus on driving measurable outcomes.
  • The candidate must have a deep understanding of user-centered design principles and user experience best practices.
  • The candidate must possess excellent project management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
  • The candidate must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a bias for action.
  • The candidate must be able to reverse engineer from customer needs.
  • The candidate must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with distributed cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
  • Take ownership of the first days of a user journey and ensure a seamless and engaging experience.
  • Implement strategies to improve user onboarding, reduce friction, and enhance user satisfaction during initial interactions with our product.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, DevRel, Sales, Marketing) to define and track key performance metrics related to user acquisition, activation, conversion and expansion.
  • Analyze the user journey, from initial onboarding to conversion and beyond, and identify areas for improvement.
  • Continuously monitor and improve conversion rates throughout the user journey. Collaborate with Product Engineering and Design teams to implement changes that enhance conversion at key touch points.
  • Regularly analyze user behavior and engagement data to uncover insights and trends. Use these insights to make informed decisions and iterate on growth strategies as well as continuous product evolution across core Conductor and cloud offerings.
  • Embrace a culture of experimentation.
  • Test hypotheses, run A/B tests, and iterate on features based on real-time data and user feedback.
  • Create and deliver regular reports on growth metrics and initiatives to company leadership.
  • Clearly communicate progress, challenges, and opportunities to stakeholders.
  • Utilize data analytics to measure and analyze key performance indicators.
  • Make informed decisions based on data insights and continuously optimize strategies.
Desired Qualifications
  • Engineering background (e.g., you wrote some code before)
  • You have defined and launched SaaS offerings in the cloud infrastructure space

Orkes.io provides a platform to build, scale, and observe distributed systems using Orkes Conductor, which lets users model business logic like a whiteboard while coding components in their preferred language and framework. The product runs at scale with minimal setup and offers end-to-end observability across the distributed landscape. It can be deployed as fully managed clusters hosted by Orkes or installed in the client’s cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, or private cloud) and includes native access control, SSO, and audit logs for governance. Its goal is to help developers and enterprises efficiently build, modernize, and manage distributed applications with governance, scalability, and visibility, while supporting an active community of Conductor developers and architects.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$89.3M

Headquarters

Cupertino, California

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • $60M Series B from AVP in April 2026 triples customers to 3,000 enterprises like Twilio and LinkedIn.
  • Gartner forecasts $450B AI spending in 2026, fueling Orkes' production AI agent deployments.
  • Naveo Commerce uses Orkes for real-time global inventory monitoring and disruption resolution.

What critics are saying

  • Temporal.io steals Conductor users with Rust durability, triggering migrations in 6-12 months.
  • Camunda 8.5 BPMN integration wins finance compliance audits over Orkes JSON in 12-18 months.
  • Netflix's 2023 Conductor abandonment leaves OSS unpatched, forcing paid Orkes migrations now.

What makes Orkes unique

  • Orkes Conductor, built by Netflix's original architects in 2016, adds enterprise AI orchestration to open-source workflows.
  • Agentspan platform converts natural language prompts into editable workflows with built-in governance.
  • Over 20 system tasks enable no-code HTTP, LLM, and event integrations without custom workers.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

7%

2 year growth

8%
Startup Story Media
Feb 22nd, 2024
Orkes Secures $20M Funding Round Led by Nexus Venture Partners

Abhishek Sharma, Nexus Managing Director, who led the investment, will join Orkes' board.

Orkes
Feb 22nd, 2024
Orkes has raised a $20M Series A to power our next phase of growth

Orkes Platform makes it easy for developers to build higly reliable, distributed stateful applications

The Economic Times
Feb 22nd, 2024
Nexus Venture Partners leads $20 million funding at DevOps startup Orkes

Nexus Venture Partners, a US- and India-based venture capital major, has led a $25 million funding round in Orkes, an orchestration-focussed DevOps (developer operations) startup.

FinSMEs
Feb 21st, 2024
Orkes Raises $20M in Funding

Orkes raises $20M in funding.

TechCrunch
Feb 21st, 2024
Microservices Orchestration Platform Orkes Raises $20M Series A

Back in 2016, Netflix open-sourced Conductor, its microservices orchestration platform, but last December, it announced that it would discontinue maintaining it. Thankfully, for the many companies that rely on it, the creators of Conductor had previously left the company to launch Orkes, a startup that provides an enterprise-grade microservices platform based on the open-source project. Orkes took over the maintenance of Conductor for the time being and today the company announced that it has now raised a $20 million Series A on top of its $9.3 million seed round in 2022. The new round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures US.The team built Conductor at Netflix in 2015, in part to help the development teams there keep pace with the rapid growth of the company and its needs. As Orkes co-CTO Viren Baraiya told me, the project quickly became popular within Netflix. “One of the things that we realized very quickly was that there is no kind of secret sauce here for Netflix