Director, Product Management
$313,100–$581,400 year
On-siteSan Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Partner shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering to break complex problems into simple, shippable steps and drive sprint planning. Own the product strategy by articulating the build rationale through rigorous, data-centric analysis and evangelize new products via demos, proofs of concept, and customer-facing events. Engage directly with customers and sales teams to understand usage patterns, identify growth opportunities, and continuously sharpen the roadmap. Launch and scale modern data services initiatives from initial definition through execution, prioritizing features based on market sizing and customer feedback. Define and track success metrics to inform future development while strengthening ecosystem partnerships for faster value delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Deep modern data services and analytical-layer expertise
- Hands-on knowledge of modern databases and the analytical data layer (e.g., Amazon RDS and Aurora, Azure Cosmos DB, Databricks, and Snowflake)
- Knowledge of the lakehouse architecture and catalog/governance models (such as Unity Catalog)
- Comfortable setting up and operating your own data environments in the cloud
- Prior product management experience taking initiatives from initial launch through to scale in data infrastructure, databases, analytics, or data platforms
- First-principles problem solving
- Ability to break complex problems into simple steps and a data-centric mindset that forms convictions through rigorous analysis
- Strong communication skills to engage engineers, enterprise customers, and senior leadership
- Ability to persuade once you've convinced yourself of the merits
- High agency in fast-moving environments
- A self-starter who navigates uncharted waters, manages multiple initiatives at once, and thrives in an agile, non-hierarchical setting rather than a waterfall one
- A can-do collaborator who wins as a team, builds alignment across the organization, and executes
- Proven experience bringing new products and capabilities successfully to market
- Open to travel for customer meetings, partner activities, and conferences
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in the data protection industry, including exposure to storage and database ecosystems, particularly those related to protection APIs
- Familiarity with open table formats and the modern open data stack — Apache Parquet, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Unity Catalog, and data-sharing standards such as Delta Sharing
- Familiarity with the change-data-capture and point-in-time-recovery patterns that build on them
- Active participation or contributions in the open-source data community (e.g., Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark)
- Technical roles such as field/partner solutions architecture, data engineering, or technical marketing engineering
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