Backed by GV.
About the role
Upbound builds control planes for cloud and AI infrastructure. We created Crossplane and donated it to the CNCF, where it is a graduated project used by platform teams around the world. We are applying that same model to AI inference. Upbound is hiring a Senior Product Marketing Manager that will own go-to-market for that work. You will help define how enterprises understand our commercial product and our open source roots.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in B2B enterprise software product marketing , with meaningful time on infrastructure, developer, or data platform products sold to technical buyers
- Enterprise go-to-market that closed real revenue. You can describe deals your messaging influenced, the buyer roles in the room, and what changed because of the work you did
- Genuine technical depth. Working knowledge of AI and Inference, cloud infrastructure, and how modern software gets deployed and operated, with awareness of the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Open source and commercial experience in the same organization. You have marketed a project and a product side by side. You understand community trust, the open core line, contributor and maintainer dynamics
- Zero to one in an emerging category. You have taken a new, technically ambitious product to market before the analysts had a name for it
- Writing you did yourself. You ship copy
More about this role
Upbound is redefining how modern infrastructure is built for the Agentic AI Era. We’re the creators and primary maintainers of Crossplane , and we’re building the Intelligent Control Plane —a new platform layer that makes infrastructure programmable, autonomous, and composable .
Our mission is to power the AI-native enterprise with a foundational platform layer that helps teams provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale—so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents . We partner with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to help organizations move faster with greater confidence.
Today, Upbound supports Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across 100+ countries . Crossplane has surpassed 100M+ downloads and is used by 1,000+ teams worldwide . We’re a Series B company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital , and we’ve raised $69M to date. Learn more at upbound.io
Upbound builds control planes for cloud and AI infrastructure. We created Crossplane and donated it to the CNCF, where it is a graduated project used by platform teams around the world. We are applying that same model to AI inference....
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