Staff Product Manager - Private Cloud Director

Platform9; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 164.000 - 194.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive compensation

Equity

Hybrid work model

Medical healthcare for you and family

Professional development

Team building

Zusammenfassung

Platform9 is seeking a customer-focused staff product manager to drive the vision & execution for Platform9's Private Cloud Director, our flagship private cloud management product. You will own the platform that enables enterprises to manage their private cloud across data centers and edge locations.

You will work with customers, engineering and GTM teams to define the roadmap, then ensure its successful execution. The role reports into the VP of Product.

Qualifikationen

• MS in Computer science or an equivalent degree with minimum 12 years of experience building enterprise software products.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to lead through influence.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication, organization and presentation skills.
• Proactive, energetic, creative, loves working on hard problems.

Aufgaben

• Define and lead comprehensive product strategy development for Platform9's private cloud infrastructure stack.
• Work closely with Platform9 customers and users to understand processes and pain points.
• Deep dive into virtualization and container orchestration trends to inform roadmaps.
• Transform knowledge into innovative products and solutions that redefine private cloud delivery.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Communication

Product management

Presentation skills

Cloud technologies

Organization

Influence

Customer empathy

Ausbildung

MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

VMware

Linux/KVM

Jobbeschreibung

Location- US (remote)

About Us:

Platform9: Private Clouds Made Easy

Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our flagship product - Platform9 Private Cloud Director - makes it easy to run a full-featured private cloud on existing infrastructure, delivering a familiar VM management experience with critical enterprise features, and automated migration tools.

Founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud. We innovate across what we build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a next-generation, open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer outcomes.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a customer-focused staff product manager to drive the vision & execution for Platform9's Private Cloud Director - our flagship private cloud management product that offers enterprises the best alternative to VMware, and that enables customers to manage their virtualized and Kubernetes infrastructure across private or co-location hosted data centers and edge locations. You will be the product owner of the platform that is setting a new standard for private clouds. You will work closely with Platform9 customers, engineering and GTM teams to define our product roadmap and then ensure it's being executed. This role reports into our VP of Product.

Responsibilities:

• Define and lead comprehensive product strategy development for Platform9's private cloud infrastructure stack on virtualization and bare metal platforms in close collaboration with the Engineering leadership team.
• Work closely with Platform9 customers and users to build a deep understanding of their processes and pain points.
• Deep dive into industry and ecosystem to understand leading trends in virtualization and / or container orchestration in the industry.
• Transform your knowledge and expertise into defining innovative products and solutions that redefine how private cloud technology is consumed
• Work on complex business problems with a high level of ambiguity. Add clarity and context and details then transform them into products that make an impact on Platform9 GTM.
• Define metrics for customer engagement and product success and ensure measurement and execution. Present reports on metrics to management.
• Act as a trusted advisor for select Platform9 customers, communicate roadmap, enable successful product deployment and consumption.
• Work with the go-to-market team (sales, marketing) to enable sales by providing training on new features, collateral, battle cards, and other necessary content.
• Being the voice of our customers internally to the Platform9 team, proactively communicate requirements and influence product roadmap.
• Communicate best practices, reference architectures and other training material to customers
• Collaborating with the engineering team to lead public documentation for the products and / or components you own.

Requirements:

• MS in Computer science or an equivalent degree with minimum 12 years of experience building enterprise software products
• Exceptional verbal and written communication, organization and presentation skills
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to lead through influence
• Proactive, energetic, creative, loves working on hard problems
• Highly organized, efficient at driving multiple projects with high priority and execute against strict deadlines
• Basic domain knowledge of virtualization and technologies such as VMware, Linux/KVM
• Background in any of the following is a plus: virtualization, containerization, private/public cloud
• Enjoy discovering customer use cases, identifying gaps and resolving issues in the product.
• Passion for cloud technologies
• A background of product management, sales engineering or customers success is a plus

Benefits and Perks

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognise their whole person. Platform9's benefits and perks have been carefully designed to ensure that we take care of an employee's emotions and physical well-being. Many of our benefits extend to families, who form a significant part of our well-being at work

Please note that benefits change by country.

• Competitive Compensation and Equity
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family
• Hybrid Work Model
• Wellness Benefits
• Professional Development/Global certifications
• Reward and Recognition Programs
• Team Building Activities
• Our benefits have been carefully selected, keeping in mind employees requirements and personal situations now and for the future.

(Salary: $190K-$225K per year)