Senior Product Manager, Kubernetes Platform

Eli Lilly and Company • Indianapolis, IN

14h • $126,000 - $184,800

About The Position

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. The Software Product Engineering (SPE) organization is seeking an exceptional technical product manager to lead Lilly’s Global Kubernetes infrastructure platform. The platform is at the core of scalable software systems that accelerate medicine delivery to patients. You will own the product vision, roadmap, delivery, and adoption of the platform (named Hangar) that empowers hundreds of engineers across the enterprise. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of developer productivity at Lilly, working at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud-native technologies, and developer enablement. The role requires someone who can think strategically about developer experience while maintaining deep technical understanding of modern service architecture and deployment practices. What You'll Be Doing: Building on Lilly's technical foundation, you will drive the Hangar platform vision to scale world-wide software solutions, improve deployment quality, and increase system resilience. You will define how teams provision infrastructure, monitor service health, optimize deployments, and leverage emerging technologies like AI agents to automate operations. As the Product Manager for Hangar, you will establish Lilly as a leader in platform engineering by creating capabilities that turn infrastructure complexity into seamless workflows for engineering teams. This role requires balancing technical depth with customer-centric thinking, ensuring our platform investments deliver measurable results.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of product management experience with at least 3 years in developer platforms or infrastructure products
• Experience working in cloud-native environments with container orchestration
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes (k8s) , deployment patterns, and operations
• Experience with service architecture, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical stakeholders and drive platform adoption
• Excellence in translating technical concepts into compelling product narratives
• Strong customer empathy and a growth mindset
• Outstanding communication skills with ability to engage developers and technical leaders

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience as a software developer or platform engineer is a plus
• Proven track record of driving adoption of technical platforms across engineering organizations

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Hangar platform strategy, establishing how Lilly engineers leverage k8s to deploy services at organizational scale
• Partner with technical leadership to align platform capabilities with enterprise architecture and security requirements
• Drive end-to-end platform adoption through technical user engagement, education, documentation, and enablement
• Understand the platform ecosystem and how AI Agents can improve it.
• Reference CNCF and other sources to provide the Hangar technical leads with product requirements.
• Written product requirements documentation and alignment.
• Gather customer feedback and translate technical requirements into platform features
• Monitor industry trends in platform engineering, developer experience, AI ops, and cloud-native technologies
• Partner with technical pod leads to ensure platform roadmap reflects real-world engineering challenges
• Serve as the voice of the developer, advocating for improvements that reduce toil and increase velocity

Benefits

• Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).
• In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level