Senior Product Manager

SUSE

About The Position

SUSE is an Open Source software pioneer and market leader with a fast-paced, exciting environment at the leading edge of Enterprise Linux, Cloud native Solutions, and Edge Computing. About Rancher Prime (Cloud native) SUSE’s Rancher Prime stacks offer a full spectrum container management solution covering Rancher, Harvester, Longhorn & container security with Neuvector. Rancher is the industry’s most widely adopted full stack Kubernetes management platform. At SUSE, we pride ourselves in being able to revolutionize the Kubernetes Management space and radically simplify the adoption and operation of cloud native technologies; enabling organizations to build and run secure, scalable and reliable applications across public clouds, hybrid clouds and the edge. About the Role Cloud native Product Managers have end to end responsibility for their products – developing the vision, advocating with internal teams, and communicating to the market. We are looking for an entrepreneurial individual to drive the definition, execution and management of product initiatives across the company. Someone who can relate to the technical & executive audiences & can zoom in and out of detail as needed to communicate effectively. As a Senior Product Manager in the cloud native business, you will drive the product strategy for the cloud native cluster management products in the Cloud native portfolio. Reporting into the Head of Cloud native Product Management, in this role you will:

Requirements

Extensive product management experience with infrastructure, DevOps & workload products
Technical understanding of enterprise DevOps environments, deployments and use cases.
Knowledge of technologies such as DevOps, GitOps, Cluster API, Provisioning
Comfortable with deep technical subjects and principals
Strong communications, presentation and interpersonal skills, both in physical and virtual settings across oceans and cultures
Self-motivated, able to handle ambiguity and work independently and in a team
Experience with open-source software development and culture
This position is subject to a background check(s), including criminal, credit, and/or employment references. The candidate is required to complete the background check(s) once an offer has been accepted. This will be conducted by SUSE’s external provider, where legally permitted.

Responsibilities

Lead the strategy, vision, and go to market for our cloud native workload & infrastructure management products
Translate market needs into product capabilities and directions & present to key team members including the executive team.
Track upstream project roadmaps and ensure the product is aware of relevant updates and features.
Evaluate customer and market trends through customer interviews, workload analysis, partnerships, technology innovations, and competitive analysis as part of product planning.
Develop detailed understanding of customer use cases and deployment options.
Author detailed PR FAQ’s
Manage the product lifecycle from product definition to product release.
Serve as the product SME with partners, customers and other external audiences
Partner with marketing to provide positioning and messaging as well as contribute to GTM enablement.
Provide pre-sales and post-sales support to Rancher sales teams.
Collaborate with Engineering, Solutions, Support, Sales and Partner teams on an ongoing basis.
Engage with Rancher and cloud native tooling users in online forums, Slack, meetups and conferences.

Benefits

We empower you to be bold, driving your career to create the future you want.
We celebrate and reward your achievements.
SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind.
This is a compelling opportunity for the right person to join us as we continue to scale and prosper.
If you’re a big thinker, obsessed by execution and thrive in a dynamic environment in which you can tangibly create a lasting legacy, then please apply now!
We give you the freedom to be yourself.
You will work in a global community of unique individuals – like you – with different backgrounds, talents, skills and perspectives.
A truly open community where everyone is welcome, has a voice and is encouraged to reach their full potential regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristics.

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