Your Role and ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for an experienced Product Manager to help drive the Turbonomic roadmap. An ideal candidate would be entrepreneurial, adaptable, analytical, persuasive, empathetic, tenacious, and a creative problem solver, who is exposed to, and is well versed in, both business and technology concepts. We are specifically looking for candidates with in-depth exposure to any of the following:- Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
- On-Premise Virtualization (Hypervisors, Storage, Network)
- Container Platforms (Kubernetes)
- APM products (AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Instana, etc.)
- Infrastructure as Code / DevOps Tooling
Product Managers (PM) operate in a demanding role at the epicenter of multidisciplinary teams which include design, engineering, sales, marketing, finance and legal. In this role, you’ll play a central role leading and orchestrating the definition of product requirements and go-to-market strategy to solve data challenges of enterprise and mid-market clients. This role requires collaboration and coordination across internal and external teams and will be visible at the highest levels of our organization.
What you’ll do:
- Own a specific product area within Turobnomic, including becoming a technical SME.
- Work with customers and our field to identify necessary improvements to existing functionality, as well as define new functionality to maximize customer adoption and business value with the product.
- Work with development and testing teams to define clear, accomplishable requirements for new public cloud functionality.
- Manage UI/UX design process assuring all functionality developed is easy to use and clearly articulates its value to customers.
- Use a combination of customer data and market research to prioritize new functionality into an aggressive roadmap that balances new functionality, improvements and technical debt.
- Ensure field teams have the content and context necessary to help customers leverage all functionality (new and existing) in your defined area.
- Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.
What you’ll bring:
- A customer-centric focus on how to deliver business value with a keen understanding of the IT enterprise ecosystem
- Enjoy working with highly technical customers and team members.
- Proven ability to work with sales and sales engineering teams.
- Proven ability to work with development teams.
- Proven ability to work with large enterprise customers and executives.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to make recommendations and measure success.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 7+ years of experience working with any of the following:
- Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
- On-Premise Virtualization (Hypervisors, Storage, Network)
- Container Platforms (Kubernetes)
- APM products (AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Instana, etc.)
- Infrastructure as Code / DevOps Tooling
- 5+ years of product management experience managing enterprise IT solutions (infrastructure, monitoring, management, maintenance etc)
- Demonstrated experience driving product ownership and growth
- Experience in Product Management with an technical/engineering background
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- 7+ years of product management experience managing enterprise IT products (infrastructure, monitoring, management, maintenance etc)
- Proven experience driving large product growth on a cloud focused platform or product
- Keen understanding of enterprise best practices of cloud management- tagging, resourcing, provisioning, scaling, and optimizing
- A deep understanding of the cloud industry trends and technology stacks (nosql, app service environments, serverless, containers)
- Insight into how to delight enterprise IT users who are invested in the public cloud technology stack and are struggling with scale, manageability, complexity, cost, and performance issues