Principal Product Manager, AHV Virtualization Platform
About The Position
As a Principal Product Manager for AHV, you will be directly involved and responsible for the core AHV hypervisor. AHV is in use by over 90% of our customer base and is the core software platform for several key Nutanix solutions including Nutanix Clusters, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, Nutanix Agentic AI, and End User Computing. This role is crucial to the heartbeat of our hybrid cloud infrastructure platform. You will contribute to and own key features on the platform, driving and measuring adoption success rates. This role requires superior analytical, strategic, and business judgment skills. You will collaborate closely with core engineering, customers, SEs, sales, marketing, and other teams at Nutanix.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field is strongly preferred
- Direct experience or strong, demonstrated familiarity with the hardware virtualization ecosystem including one or more of the following: VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM, AWS EC2, GCP, Azure
- Experience with enterprise class customers
- 5+ years of product, engineering, and/or product management experience in enterprise data center products, virtualization, IaaS, cloud computing, or related offerings
- Strong fundamentals in IaaS and virtualization including, but not limited to, virtual hardware and software, vGPU, guest OS compatibility, migration features, IO devices, API/CLI, CPU and NUMA, high availability, and the Linux kernel
- Strong understanding of components of enterprise offerings and frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to innovate, build and launch successful products
- Attention to detail in executing complex projects with cross-functional dependencies
- Strong organizational skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience in high-level business discussions
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven ability to deliver on commitments in a multi geographic distributed team
- Strong problem solving and analytical thinking skills
- Aptitude to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- High energy and excellent teamwork skills
- Have a bias for action and demonstrate ownership for domain
Nice To Haves
- MBA nice to have
Responsibilities
- Help define and execute roadmap for core AHV hypervisor development
- Regular customer outreach, collection, and synthesis of customer feedback into prioritized requirements
- Create detailed market requirements documents (MRDs) and actionable product requirement documents (PRDs) for each release
- Coordinate with cross functional teams (product management, engineering, program management, support, marketing, etc.) to drive roadmap execution
- Track, manage, and report on KPIs on an ongoing basis
- Evangelize, provide customer advocacy and briefings to deliver and promote AHV messaging
- Provide ongoing field support as needed to drive high customer satisfaction and engagement
- Drive field and partner enablement in collaboration with marketing and enablement teams
- Author, build and maintain compelling internal and external facing collateral in organization with outbound teams
Benefits
- 401(k) eligibility
- various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave
- sign-on bonus
- restricted stock units
- discretionary awards
- full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
