Staff Product Manager - Private Cloud Director

Platform9 Systems•San Jose, CA

7d•$210,000 - $235,000•Remote

About The Position

Platform9 is seeking a customer-focused Staff Product Manager to drive the vision and execution for its flagship private cloud management product, Private Cloud Director. This product serves as a leading alternative to VMware for enterprises, enabling them to manage virtualized and Kubernetes infrastructure across various data center and edge locations. The role involves acting as the product owner for the platform, working closely with customers, engineering, and go-to-market teams to define and execute the product roadmap. This position reports to the VP of Product.

Requirements

MS in Computer science or an equivalent degree with minimum 4 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 with high priority and execute against strict deadlines.
Basic domain knowledge of virtualization and technologies such as VMware, Linux/KVM.
Enjoy 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

Define and lead comprehensive product strategy development for Platform9's private cloud infrastructure stack on virtualization and bare metal platforms in close collaboration with the Engineering leadership team.
Work closely with Platform9 customers and users to build a deep understanding of their processes and pain points.
Deep dive into industry and ecosystem to understand leading trends in virtualization and / or container orchestration in the industry.
Transform knowledge and expertise into defining innovative products and solutions that redefine how private cloud technology is consumed.
Work on complex business problems with a high level of ambiguity. Add clarity and context and details then transform them into products that make an impact on Platform9 GTM.
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.