My client is a global leader within Big Data, IoT, ML and Analytics and are transforming the digital world. They are now looking for a Product Manager to act as an individual contributor responsible for developing products and solutions in the hybrid cloud space. This includes cloud, SaaS, SDS and other related solutions. You will be supported by a talented team comprising of technical and business acumen.
The role involves driving forward their cloud offerings by taking lead on the product development where the key function is technical product development / technical product management.
Responsibilities
- Technical and high level business understanding of cloud solutions with a deep understanding of the operational and technical challenges faced by our clients in adopting cloud solutions and/or developing cloud-native software. Engage with customers on complex and technical product questions
- Lead technical meetings with top strategic customers and facilitate customer-facing product presentations, events and conferences where it relates to product and roadmap
- Conduct research, competitive analysis and gather insights into cloud and related markets to proactively identify technology and customer trends to help identify new products, features and capabilities to enhance our offerings and excite our customers.
- Own product strategy and vision providing direct feedback on product direction and positioning to help with understanding across outbound PM, development teams, sellers, marketing, and delivery teams
- Provide oversight of product development, prioritization and design with an eye on cost vs benefit working closely with architect, engineering and UX teams
- Work on early-stage products, managing alpha and beta programs driving adoption across both internal and external customers delivered with a personal touch. Act as a technical advisor to accelerate the customer's adoption journey of products
- Understand customer's use case and technical objectives to develop and recommend adoption of products and inform roadmap
- Influence multiple organizational teams (Sales, Engineering, UX, Marketing & Support) to champion product adoption and development
- Support field enablement and customer engagement activities via the outbound team working with sales, implementation, marketing, and support teams
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of cloud usage in enterprise environments for hosting and application development
- Experience of developing innovative cloud products focussed on ‘Enterprise’ customers
- Understanding of IaaS & PaaS for modernized cloud-native and on-premises infrastructure
- Experience of AWS, Azure, GCP, and VMware based environments
- Experienced in working in Agile/DevOps/GitOps/DevSecOps environment with CI/CD and application lifecycle management – Terraform, Jenkins, Git, Argo etc
- Experience in containerization technologies and related ecosystem such as Kubernetes, Docker, Openshift, Rancher, Helm, Operator, Service Mesh, SDN, Valero, Calico etc.
- Experience in scrum, agile, SAFe and related tooling including Jira, Confluence, Aha etc
- Sales and GTM experience with SaaS and Cloud products desirable
Please apply now for more details!