Principal Technical Product Manager

Summit

3d•Remote

About The Position

As a Principal Technical Product Manager at Summit, you will lead complex initiatives across products and technical domains, working with product leadership and partners across Delivery, Sales, and Marketing to turn strategic direction into clear product decisions, coordinated plans, and measurable outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Head of Product. Your impact will come through technical product judgment, influence across teams, and mentorship that strengthens how Summit plans and delivers complex product work. You will own strategy, roadmap, and P&L outcomes end to end for Summit’s private cloud, storage, and OS management product families, from discovery through launch and adoption. You will make roadmap decisions, including what to build, defer, or stop, and explain the tradeoffs. You will engage regularly with customers, partners, Sales, and SE teams; turn customer input and data into problem statements; partner with Engineering to deliver predictable launches; and enable Sales, SEs, and channel partners to sell releases. You will also identify cross-portfolio opportunities that combine infrastructure and application-hosting products. Success includes learning the products, customers, and team quickly; publishing a revised roadmap with clear priorities within the first 90 days and shipping a meaningful release; and moving an agreed business measure within the first year, such as bookings, net revenue retention, or EBITDA margin. The role calls for urgency, independent ownership, customer curiosity, sound judgment, clear communication tailored to technical and business audiences, and the ability to raise the bar through strong product documentation and informal mentorship. Summit describes its work culture through the values of empowering people, constant elevation, customer first, focus on outcomes, and embracing curiosity. The position is remote-friendly, with work from anywhere noted among the benefits.

Requirements

8+ years of product management experience with B2B infrastructure, cloud, hosting, networking, or developer-platform products.
Track record of owning a roadmap and demonstrating a measurable business result, including the metric and actions taken to move it.
Technical depth to engage effectively with infrastructure engineers on virtualization, storage, networking, or platform APIs.
Evidence of shipping on a tight cadence, including at least one product taken from idea to launch.
Clear, concise writing for technical, executive, or customer audiences.
Daily use of AI tools for research, drafting, analysis, or prototyping.

Nice To Haves

Engineering or Sales Engineering background.
Experience with private cloud platforms such as CloudStack, VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, or alternatives; storage arrays; AI infrastructure; or security products.
Pricing, packaging, or margin experience for usage-based or hourly-billed services.
Experience selling through channel partners or enabling Sales and Sales Engineering teams.
Experience integrating products or teams after an acquisition.

Responsibilities

Own strategy, roadmap, and P&L outcomes for private cloud, storage, and OS management product families from discovery through launch and adoption.
Make roadmap decisions about what to build, defer, or stop, and communicate recommendations and tradeoffs.
Meet regularly with customers, partners, Sales, and SE teams; use their input and data to define clear problem statements.
Partner with Engineering to ship on a predictable cadence and equip Sales, SEs, and channel partners to sell releases from launch.
Identify cross-portfolio opportunities combining infrastructure and application-hosting products into offers neither unit could sell alone.
Publish a revised roadmap with priorities and rationale, and guide the team in delivering against it.
Move an agreed business measure such as bookings, net revenue retention, or EBITDA margin.
Unblock work, make reversible decisions quickly, and escalate decisions rather than problems.
Communicate technical product details and tradeoffs to Engineering, and explain product outcomes, price, and risk to Sales, partners, and customers.
Create strong requirements documents, roadmaps, and launch plans, and informally coach other product managers through example.