Product Manager - Private Cloud Director

Platform9 Systems • San Jose, CA

7d • $170,000 - $190,000 • Remote

About The Position

Platform9 is seeking a customer-focused leader to drive the vision and execution for their Private Cloud Director product. This flagship product offers enterprises an alternative to VMware, enabling them to manage virtualized and Kubernetes infrastructure across private or co-location hosted data centers and edge locations. The Product Manager will be the product owner of the platform, working closely with customers, engineering, and go-to-market teams to define and execute the product roadmap. This role reports to the VP of Product.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer science with minimum 2 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 simultaneously and getting them to completion on time
• Basic domain knowledge of virtualization and technologies such as VMware, Linux/KVM
• Enjoys discovering customer use cases, identifying gaps and resolving issues in the product.
• Passion for cloud technologies

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering leadership team to define Platform9’s product strategy and roadmap for our virtualization and bare metal product.
• Work closely with Platform9 customers and the broad community of open source users and contributors to build a deep understanding of their processes and pain points.
• Transform your knowledge and expertise into innovative solutions that redefine how private cloud technology is consumed.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director