Senior Product Manager for Core/Storage
About The Position
Virtuozzo is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategic product direction for its core platform offerings. This role requires deep technical knowledge of cloud systems, virtualization, and storage. The Product Manager will collaborate with engineering, customers, and partners to define the roadmap, drive innovation, and guide product execution across Virtuozzo’s ecosystem. The focus is on the core infrastructure layer, encompassing compute, virtualization, networking, and software-defined storage, including performance, resilience, scalability, and efficiency of block, file, and S3-compatible object storage, and its integration with virtualised and cloud-native workloads. Virtuozzo builds infrastructure as a true alternative to public clouds.
Requirements
- Deep technical expertise in one or more of the following: Virtualization (containers, hypervisors, orchestration, GPU virtualisation) OR Storage (block, file, object; erasure coding, tiering, caching, replication) OR Networking and security within distributed systems
- Experience writing Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) with detailed technical content
- Ability to align engineers, architects, and kernel developers around shared product goals
- Experience leading technical design discussions and architecture reviews and participating in RFC processes
- Strong cross-functional leadership across QA, DevOps, SRE, benchmarking, and compliance
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance and security standards (FIPS, GDPR, PCI-DSS)
- Proven ability to analyse performance benchmarks, define KPIs, and make product decisions grounded in data
- Experience collaborating on patentable technologies or filing IP in infrastructure domains
- Excellent communication skills and ability to drive alignment between product, engineering, and field teams
- 5+ years of experience in technical product management OR 5+ years of hands-on experience in OS/storage/networking development or system-level Linux administration
Nice To Haves
- Experience with S3-compatible object storage
- Experience with hyperconverged and standalone deployments
- Experience with cloud-native workloads
Responsibilities
- Define and execute product strategy across cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and storage components
- Engage deeply with engineering teams on system architecture, RFCs, design reviews, and technical specs
- Drive product innovation in performance engineering, scalability, and infrastructure optimization
- Lead competitive benchmarking and shape product direction based on data and market trends
- Collaborate with hardware vendors (CPU, GPU, storage, networking) to deliver integrated, performance-optimized solutions
- Align roadmap and delivery across virtualization, cloud management platforms, and infrastructure tooling for CSPs, MSPs, and enterprise providers
- Coordinate cross-product initiatives and ensure smooth integration with internal and third-party tools
- Identify emerging technology trends and guide long-term investments in innovation
- Support definition and enforcement of product quality KPIs, customer use cases, and performance benchmarks
Benefits
- Flexible hours and remote work options
- Share Options
- Private medical insurance
- Employee engagement and recognition programmes
- Supportive, engineering-driven culture with minimal bureaucracy
- The chance to influence Product and R&D decisions from day one
- Other perks and benefits apply depending on location and employment method
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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