Senior Product Manager - Cloudera Manager

Cloudera•San Jose, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Cloudera is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the product strategy and roadmap for Cloudera Manager, a lifecycle management tool used by large global enterprises. Cloudera Manager manages mission-critical clusters spanning thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. The role will shape the product into an enterprise-capable, easy-to-use experience across on-premises and cloud environments, evolving it from a tool primarily used by engineers into an accessible platform for data platform managers. The position partners closely with Engineering, PMO, Product Marketing, and Field organizations to deliver a leading hybrid-cloud experience. The Senior Product Manager will simplify product configuration and administration through intelligent recommendations, actionable health alerts, configuration warnings, and active guardrails informed by Cloudera knowledge and real-time observability telemetry. The role will also modernize hybrid architecture, improve cluster lifecycle operations at large scale, establish predictable release and API compatibility policies, and track operational success metrics.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of experience in enterprise software, including at least 2 years of Product Management experience.
Strong foundational understanding of open data lakes, data movement, enterprise data governance, and big data architecture.
Basic technical understanding of virtualization and data center networking.
Basic technical understanding of VM-based public cloud deployments (IaaS/PaaS), object storage architectures such as S3, ADLS, or GCS, and network architectures for at least one major hyperscaler: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Demonstrated success transforming complex, developer-centric platforms into intuitive, opinionated products with active guardrails that reduce manual operational friction.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience working with or within major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including partner co-development, cloud marketplace programs, or cloud-native integrations.
Strong knowledge of modern cloud data platforms and competitive solutions such as Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery/Bigtable, Amazon EMR/Redshift, or Azure Synapse.
Familiarity with open table formats such as Apache Iceberg and multi-cloud data architecture strategies.
Strong background managing enterprise platforms or supporting customers with enterprise-scale deployments involving more than 100 terabytes of data.

Responsibilities

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Cloudera Manager.
Shift the product toward simplified user experiences, optimal configuration settings, and active guardrails that reduce operational fragility and prevent outages.
Incorporate AI-powered configuration recommendations, actionable health alerts, and bad-configuration warnings using Cloudera’s knowledge base and real-time observability telemetry.
Design intuitive workflows and self-guided administrative tools for IT generalists with limited big data expertise.
Lead the long-term evolution of Cloudera Manager into an orchestrator for clusters across multiple clouds and hybrid-cloud deployments.
Optimize cluster lifecycle operations to support environments of up to 10,000 nodes and ensure refresh and maintenance operations on clusters of 1,000 or more nodes meet customer-approved SLAs.
Establish and enforce release lifecycle policies that guarantee public API stability and backward compatibility.
Monitor and improve operational velocity, prescriptive feature adoption, and support escalation volumes.
Partner with Engineering, PMO, Product Marketing, and Field organizations to deliver the product experience.