Senior Product Manager - Cloudera Manager

Cloudera•San Jose, CA

4d•$185,000 - $231,000•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 to manage mission-critical clusters with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. The role will lead a strategy that brings enterprise capabilities and the ease of data SaaS products to deployments ranging from on-premises to cloud. It will help evolve Cloudera Manager from a tool primarily used by engineers into a straightforward experience for data platform managers, working closely with Engineering, PMO, Product Marketing, and Field organizations to deliver a market-leading hybrid-cloud experience. The Senior Product Manager will simplify product experiences with intelligent recommendations and guardrails; make platform administration more accessible to IT generalists; lead the evolution toward hybrid-cloud cluster orchestration; improve core lifecycle operations at scale; establish predictable release and API compatibility policies; and monitor operational success metrics. The role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

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.
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, and 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 containing more than 100 terabytes of data.

Responsibilities

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Cloudera Manager.
Shift product strategy from extensive customization toward a simpler experience with optimal settings, active guardrails, configuration recommendations, actionable health alerts, and bad-configuration warnings, incorporating AI trained on 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 of clusters across multiple clouds for 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 more than 1,000 nodes meet customer-approved SLAs.
Establish and enforce structured release lifecycle policies that guarantee public API stability and backward compatibility.
Track and improve operational velocity, adoption of prescriptive features, and support escalation volumes.
Partner with Engineering, PMO, Product Marketing, and Field organizations to deliver the product experience.