Senior Director, Vertica Product Leadership & Strategy

Rocket Software, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 267,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Vacation Time

Health and Wellness coverage

Life and disability coverage

401(k) and Roth Retirement Savings

Monthly student debt benefit

Tuition Reimbursement and Certificate

Leadership and skills training

Job summary

Rocket Software Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management for Vertica to lead the product management team and own the product vision, roadmap, and execution across enterprise data and analytics platforms.

The role requires deep expertise in data warehouse, lakehouse architectures, cloud-native analytics, and AI-driven solutions, guiding cross‑functional teams to drive growth and market leadership.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of related product or business experience with enterprise data, analytics, AI, database, or cloud data platform products.
• Expertise with product management of B2B applications and cross‑functional leadership.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Experience with design‑led product development, customer discovery and product operating models.
• Ability to present to executives, analysts, customers and partners.
• Bachelor's or graduate degree; MBA strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Understand the functional role of product management and how to build and implement a product management function.
• Identify market opportunities, create roadmaps, prioritize features and validate timelines.
• Frame market segmentation and define opportunities for the overall product portfolio.
• Build business cases to expand market presence and drive revenue.
• Lead creation and socialization of product‑level documents with cross‑functional teams.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing on positioning, messaging, and value propositions.
• Support corporate development activities and acquisitions.
• Lead competitive and win/loss analyses.

Skills

B2B product management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Communication & presentation

Enterprise data analytics

Leadership in scalable tech

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or graduate degree in Business, Technology or related field

MBA strongly preferred

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Delta Lake

Spark

Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Rocket Software Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management for Vertica to lead the product management team and own the product vision, roadmap, and execution across enterprise data and analytics platforms.

The role requires deep expertise in data warehouse, lakehouse architectures, cloud-native analytics, and AI-driven solutions, guiding cross‑functional teams to drive growth and market leadership.