Senior Director, Vertica Product Leadership

Rocket Software; Waltham (MA); Remote; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Paid holidays

Sick time

Health coverage

Life & disability insurance

401(k) matching

Tuition reimbursement

Leadership training

Job summary

Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the Vertica product team, owning the product vision and roadmap for enterprise data analytics platforms. You will guide a team across data warehouses, lakehouses, and AI-driven analytics, collaborating with engineering, marketing, sales, and customer success to drive growth and customer value.

The role requires deep experience in enterprise data platforms, design-led product management, and a proven ability to align

Qualifications

• 15+ years of related product or business experience with enterprise data, analytics, AI, machine learning, database, or cloud data platform products
• Experience with project management approaches, including discovery, scoping, planning, and leading project reviews among business partners and stakeholders
• Experience with a rapidly scaling technology/software business
• Experience in team/people management or functional leadership roles
• Demonstrated expertise in data lakehouse architectures, data warehousing, query engines, distributed systems, data governance, and cloud-native analytics platforms
• Experience with modern data ecosystems including Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Proven success implementing design-led product development practices, customer discovery programs, journey mapping, and product operating models
• Strong understanding of product operations disciplines including roadmap governance, portfolio management, OKRs, product analytics, and measurement frameworks
• Experience presenting to executive stakeholders, industry analysts, strategic customers, and partners
• Bachelor's or graduate degree in Business, Technology or related field; MBA strongly preferred
• Travel Requirements: 5-25%

Responsibilities

• Understand the functional role of product management and how to build and implement a product management function within an organization
• Understand customer pains and domain landscape in your product portfolio to be an advocate for addressing those customer and partner needs.
• Understand product strengths and weaknesses, and balance feature requests against market opportunities and maintenance requirements
• Interact with customers and partners to build relationships and gain perspective on how product features are used
• Frame market segmentation and targeting in order to define market opportunities for the overall product portfolio
• Build business cases for expanding market presence
• Oversee and provide direction for the creation and socialization of product-level documents
• Engage Product Marketing in the process for creating product positioning, value propositions and messaging that resonates with the buying audience
• Support corporate development activities in identifying new inorganic options and integrating acquisitions
• Lead competitive and win/loss analysis. Support analyst relations by acting as a spokesperson for the business unit solutions
• Support enablement efforts for sales and channel partners
• Serve as a market-facing subject matter expert for your product portfolio

Skills

B2B product management

Cross-functional collaboration

Product roadmaps

Market opportunity analysis

Executive communication

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Forecasting & metrics

Stakeholder management

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor's or MBA

Job description

Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the Vertica product team, owning the product vision and roadmap for enterprise data analytics platforms. You will guide a team across data warehouses, lakehouses, and AI-driven analytics, collaborating with engineering, marketing, sales, and customer success to drive growth and customer value.

The role requires deep experience in enterprise data platforms, design-led product management, and a proven ability to align