Sr. Product Manager
About The Position
Instaclustr is looking for an Product Manager – AI Market Segment to join our dynamic Product Management team as we expand our open-source-as-a-service platform for agentic AI. This role sits at the intersection of AI innovation and product strategy—perfect for someone who thrives on turning cutting-edge technology into real-world impact As part of NetApp, Instaclustr empowers companies to run powerful open-source technologies like Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and OpenSearch—at scale and with confidence. Our platform handles everything from provisioning to production reliability, so our customers can focus on building great applications. By leveraging our proven platform-based delivery, open source innovation, and NetApp storage, we’re uniquely positioned to lead in hyperscaler-agnostic application data infrastructure for agentic AI.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in product management experience, including experience with developer and focused products.
- Strong understanding of AI-related customer objectives and problems, market trends and key concepts.
- Excellent capability to facilitate and manage planning in demanding stakeholder environments.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong business acume.
Nice To Haves
- Understanding and experience with open source products such as those offered by Instaclustr (Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, Cadence, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL).
- Technical understanding of key cloud architecture concepts.
Responsibilities
- Understanding the problem space in the AI market segment through market awareness, customer discovery and experimentation.
- Developing and maintaining a segment vision, crafting and evangelizing compelling narratives (“working backwards” stories), that align and inspires product, engineering, GTM and execs around a compelling value proposition for the target segment.
- Being a credible expert in the AI market segment to support and drive GTM efforts including crafting compelling narratives to drive sales plays, sales conversations with high-value opportunities through to conference presentations.
- Serving as an escalation and resolution point for critical priority calls within the AI market segment, whether that is individual strategic customer issue or broader prioritisation calls.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Retirement or Pension Plans
- Paid Time Off
- various Leave options
- Performance-Based Incentives
- employee stock purchase plan
- restricted stocks (RSU’s)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
