Head of Product

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Base pay range

$180,000.00/yr - $235,000.00/yr

About Gruntwork

Gruntwork, the company behind Terragrunt, is on a mission to transform the way DevOps is done. Let’s face it: designing, launching, and managing infrastructure is still a terrible experience for most organizations, but it doesn’t have to be that way!

We are globally recognized both for our open source tools (Terragrunt, Terratest, cloud-nuke) used by thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500s, and our thought leadership on how DevOps should be done.

Our commercial offerings include:

• Gruntwork AWS Accelerator: An opinionated, best-practices solution that accelerates a company\'s journey to a secure, compliant, and well-architected IaC setup on AWS.
• Terragrunt Scale: A suite of enterprise-grade tools including our IaC Pipeline, Patcher, and Drift Detection to help organizations manage IaC at scale

Gruntwork is a profitable, bootstrapped company without any outside investors. We operate as a lean, capital efficient startup and our team is made up of values-aligned, hard-working and independently capable individuals.

About This Role

Gruntwork presents the perfect opportunity for the experienced product lead to scale an OSS PLG product. Terragrunt has huge adoption (hundreds of thousands of developers), significant positive brand equity, and has had minimal to no commercialization to date. We’re aiming to build a collaborative and respectful commercial motion around the product. If you’ve seen this pattern before and similarly see the potential, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

We are seeking a strategic, hands-on Head of Product to own the unified vision and execution for our product management (and to an extent, product marketing) functions. This is not a management and delegation role; this is a in-the-weeds product role with both strategic and operational components. You’ll be working directly with open source users, open source community contributors and our in-house R&D team to build the future of DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy AND Product Execution: You’re the company\'s product person for the near term, operating at all levels of the product stack.
• Define and own the company\'s product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring tight alignment with overall business goals and fundraising narrative.
• Collaborate with the CEO and engineering leadership to translate the company vision into a clear, prioritized roadmap for both the AWS Accelerator and Terragrunt Scale.
• Lead market research and customer discovery to sharpen our products’ value proposition, focusing on high-pain use cases like security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP).
• Spearhead the ideation and prototyping of a future AI-powered offering that leverages our data and expertise in the IaC space.

• Product Marketing: Design, implement, and own the company’s PLG strategy, creating seamless pathways for open-source users to discover, try, and buy our commercial products.
• Develop compelling product positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies for a technical audience, from individual developers to enterprise decision-makers.
• Mastermind our partnership and ecosystem strategy, focusing on AWS Marketplace, co-selling with AWS, and relationships with key ISVs.
• Own product pricing, packaging, and lifecycle management for all commercial offerings.

• Developer Relations & Community: Ensure our product strategy supports open source priorities; nurture and grow Terragrunt, Terragrunt OpenTofu, and related communities.
• Act as the voice of the community internally, channeling user feedback into product development.
• Provide world-class documentation, examples, tutorials, and content that showcases the ecosystem.

• Leadership & Team Building: Foster a culture of customer obsession, data-driven decision-making, and rapid iteration; serve as a key member of the executive team.

About You

We’re looking for a Grunt who:

• Is an open-source commercialization veteran with a track record of building a successful commercial, product-led growth motion on top of a popular open-source project.
• Is a developer-focused product leader with experience in Product Management, Product Marketing, or Developer Relations for a technical B2B SaaS or DevOps product.
• Is a strategic thinker and gifted storyteller who can articulate a simple narrative and a complex vision to investors, customers, and developers.
• Is an ecosystem navigator with experience leveraging partnerships within a major cloud ecosystem (AWS highly preferred).
• Values customer happiness and is committed to delivering value to customers.
• Enjoys challenges and works well in a collaborative, balanced environment.
• Cares about colleagues and the broader mission.
• Has extensive Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt experience and can speak from hands-on IaC experience.
• Is passionate about DevOps best practices and secure, reliable cloud infrastructure.

About the company

• No investors, no debt. We control our own destiny and are focused on building a company that customers love.
• 100% remote with team in USA time zones; regular in-person meetups every ~4 months.
• Transparent financials; salaries above market with a progressive equity plan.
• Profit-sharing bonus; generous hardware and personal budgets; insurance and retirement contributions.

Time zone

One of our values is that work-life balance leads to both better work and a better life, so we require that all team members live in a time zone between Los Angeles and New York, inclusive. You can be located anywhere in the western hemisphere; most of our team is in the USA and Canada.

Interview process

Our interviewing philosophy for this role:

• Zero Fluff: Interviews test specific competencies (Technical, Strategic, or Cultural).
• The "Doer" Filter: Front-loaded to identify candidates strong at writing PRDs and talking to customers.
• Asynchronous Respect: A portion of the process involves written communication.

Process after you apply:

• Phone screen to assess general fit.
• The Product Builder Screen to ensure comfort being “in the weeds” building product.
• Technical Deep Dive to validate technical fluency and user empathy.
• Messaging Deep Dive with head of marketing and sales.
• Take Home: think through a product strategy problem and draft thoughts.
• Take Home Review + Grunt culture fit; align with Gruntwork\'s values.
• Reference checks.
• Offer.

Compensation Range: $180K - $235K

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Product Management and Marketing

Industries

• Software Development

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