Senior Staff Product Manager - Data Protection

Teradata; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a senior product leader to drive data protection strategy across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will shape the roadmap for backup, recovery, and resilience, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability and cost-efficiency.

This role collaborates with customers, engineering, cloud, and security teams to align business and technical goals. You will bring deep expertise in backup architectures and data protection stacks, guiding product decisions that improve SLA attainment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of product management experience, including 6+ years in data protection, backup and recovery.
• Experience with enterprise data protection platforms across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid.
• Strong communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
• Track record of delivering data protection capabilities at petabyte scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and influence Teradata’s data protection product strategy and roadmap.
• Deliver resilient backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities across hybrid/multi-cloud.
• Engage with customers, engineering, security, and field teams to align objectives.
• Balance innovation with performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Data protection

Enterprise software

Hybrid cloud

Stakeholder communication

Product strategy

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Rubrik

Veeam

Cohesity

Commvault

Zerto

NetBackup

AWS Backup

Azure Backup

Job description

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.

WhatYou’llDo

In this role, you will serve as a product leader driving Teradata’s data protection product management strategy and execution across our global portfolio. You will define and influence how Teradata delivers resilient data protection for the world’s most sensitive enterprise data; spanning backup and recovery, replication, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber resilience.

Your impact will be shaping how customers meet aggressive RTO and RPO targets at Petabyte scale ensuring reliable backup, rapid recovery, and continuous data availability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will accelerate the delivery of the Enterprise data protection and resilience roadmap, balancing innovation with performance, reliability, and compliance.

Success in this role will be measured by delivering enterprise-grade data protection and resilience solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, differentiating Teradata and unlocking measurable customer value while preserving scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

Who You Will Work With

On our team, we collaborate with customers, engineering, cloud infrastructure, security operations, governance, field teams, and UX functions to bring next-generation data protection and resilience capabilities into Teradata’s enterprise ecosystem. We are responsible for the product vision, roadmap, and execution of backup, recovery, and resilience initiatives, ensuring they meet both business and technical objectives.

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of product management experience, including 6+ years leading data protection, backup and recovery, or disaster recovery products at enterprise scale, including Managed Service Providers
• Deep technical expertise across the data protection stack: backup software and storage platforms, deduplication and compression, snapshot management, replication topologies, immutable and air-gapped storage, ransomware recovery, DR orchestration, and RPO/RTO optimization across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Proven success embedding backup, recovery, and resilience capabilities into enterprise data platforms at petabyte scale, with measurable improvements to customer SLA attainment and recovery confidence.
• Demonstrated knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and their impact on backup strategy, data residency, sovereignty, storage tiering, and cost optimization.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate data protection product strategy to both technical and executive audiences.
• Track record of customer engagement, market analysis, and competitive benchmarking against leading backup and data protection vendors and native cloud provider capabilities.

What You Will Bring

• Expertise architecting enterprise backup topologies, cyber resiliency and Agentic AI data protection strategies across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, with a focus on minimizing recovery time
• Hands-on knowledge of leading backup and recovery platforms (e. g. , Rubrik, Veeam, Cohesity, Commvault, Zerto, NetBackup) and cloud-native backup services (AWS Backup, Azure Backup, Google Cloud Backup and DR).
• Ability to connect backup and recovery strategy to modern AI/ML and analytics workloads, including protecting training datasets, model checkpoints, feature stores, and data pipelines against corruption, accidental deletion, and ransomware.
• A strong understanding of backup retention policy design, covering lifecycle management, legal hold, eDiscovery readiness, and compliance-driven retention schedules for regulated data classes (PII, PHI, PCI) across tiered and archival storage.
• Vision to anticipate industry trends, next-generation backup architectures, AI-driven anomaly detection for data corruption, and data sovereignty mandates and position Teradata’s data protection offerings as differentiated and enterprise-ready.

Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata

We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.

Teradata invites all identities and backgrounds in the workplace. We work with deliberation and intent to ensure we are cultivating collaboration and inclusivity across our global organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.