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About the Role

Upbound is seeking a Director of Control Planes & Ecosystem to own the strategy and execution for the customer-facing control plane experience, including Crossplane, Upbound Crossplane, Upbound Marketplace, Upbound Official Providers and Extensions, and Partner Integrations. This senior leadership role is responsible for scaling teams, defining long-term architecture strategy, and shaping enterprise adoption of programmable control planes through a thriving ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the long-term vision for hosted control planes and ecosystem extensibility.
Ensure Marketplace, UXP, APIs, and Extensions operate as a cohesive control plane experience.
Shape how platform engineering teams compose infrastructure through Crossplane-powered abstractions.
Drive reliability, scalability, and production-grade control planes at scale.
Own the strategy for Upbound Marketplace as the distribution layer for Crossplane providers, extensions, and control plane building blocks.
Grow and strengthen the provider ecosystem (ISVs, cloud providers, platform partners).
Enable extension frameworks that allow customers and partners to build on top of Upbound control planes.
Ensure ecosystem experiences are intuitive, secure, and enterprise-ready.
Lead managers and managers-of-managers across multiple teams.
Scale engineering org structure to support product velocity and ecosystem expansion.
Establish operational rigor: roadmap planning, delivery predictability, uptime SLAs, and production excellence.
Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and deep technical craftsmanship.
Partner closely with Product, GTM, Alliances, and Customer Success to align ecosystem strategy with revenue goals.
Translate enterprise customer needs into scalable control plane capabilities.
Represent engineering in executive-level conversations around ecosystem expansion and AI-native infrastructure.

Requirements

10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading managers of managers.
5+ years building or scaling cloud-native, infrastructure, or platform engineering products.
Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and the Cloud Native ecosystem.
Experience building SaaS control planes or distributed systems at scale.
Strong understanding of APIs, SDKs, declarative systems, and extensibility frameworks.
Proven experience growing ecosystem-driven products (marketplaces, providers, plugins, or integrations).
Track record of delivering reliable production services with strong uptime and performance standards.
Ability to operate strategically while diving deep technically.

Skills

Kubernetes
Cloud Native ecosystem
SaaS control planes
Distributed systems
APIs
SDKs
Declarative systems
Extensibility frameworks
Ecosystem-driven products
Marketplaces
Providers
Plugins
Integrations
Crossplane
Platform engineering
Internal developer platforms
Multi-tenant control plane architectures
Programmable infrastructure
AI-native systems

Location

REMOTE

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior leadership
10+ years of engineering leadership experience
5+ years building or scaling cloud-native, infrastructure, or platform engineering products

About the Company

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.
Upbound is building the control plane for the modern enterprise.
As the company behind Crossplane, the open-source CNCF project that extends Kubernetes into an AI-native cloud control plane.
Upbound enables organizations to compose, manage, and operate infrastructure and services through declarative, programmable control planes.
Upbound Cloud delivers hosted, multi-tenant control planes that power platform engineering teams at scale.
Our vision extends beyond infrastructure management into an AI-native Control Fabric — where control planes become programmable, extensible, and ecosystem-driven.
At Upbound, you’ll help shape the systems and strategies that drive predictable, scalable growth in a product-led company embracing usage-based models.
If you're excited to build from the ground up, work with cutting-edge cloud technologies, and directly impact how revenue is generated and scaled—this is your seat at the table.
Upbound is pioneering infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era, serving Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across more than 100 countries.
The company empowers infrastructure and platform teams with Intelligent Control Planes - based on Kubernetes and Crossplane - that provision, operate, and adapt so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents.
Upbound is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, the popular open-source framework for building cloud-native control planes, with over 100 million downloads and adoption by more than 1,000 teams worldwide.
A Series B startup backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, Upbound has raised $69M to date.