Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Platform9 simplifies enterprise private clouds through its flagship Platform9 Private Cloud Director product. The company is seeking a customer-focused Staff Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution of its private cloud management platform across virtualization, Kubernetes, private, co-location, and edge environments. The role partners with customers, engineering, and go-to-market teams to define product direction, measure success, support adoption, and lead product documentation.
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
Skills
- 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
- Enjoy discovering customer use cases, identifying gaps and resolving issues in the product
- Passion for cloud technologies
- Background in any of the following is a plus: virtualization, containerization, private/public cloud
- A background of product management, sales engineering or customers success is a plus
Benefits
- 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
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