Director, Product Management

Summary

Join Rescale, a company disrupting the high-performance computing market, as a Product Leader. You will build and mentor product teams, define product roadmaps, and engage with customers to understand their needs. This role requires defining new capabilities, collaborating with engineering, and representing Rescale externally. Success in this position demands a strong understanding of customer challenges, strategic planning, and a data-driven approach to decision-making. You will be responsible for the product's commercial success, identifying investment areas, and prioritizing capabilities based on business impact. The ideal candidate possesses extensive product management experience and a proven track record of successful product delivery.

Requirements

• Self-starter. Able to operate in ambiguity, while adding structure as you move forward
• Have an outcome-driven mindset. You start with the outcome and work backwards on what we need to accomplish to get there
• Are a highly structured problem solver and communicator
• Extensive experience in product management practices
• 7-10+ years of experience in a product management, engineering or technology strategy role
• Have a Bachelor's degree with technical and/or business emphasis
• Proven leadership experience driving successful, high quality product delivery end to end
• Ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships

Responsibilities

• Build and mentor highly functioning product teams
• Define product roadmaps across the Rescale platform, prioritizing capabilities and features that drive customer value and business growth
• Engage with customers to understand and empathize with their problems, lead and challenge their thinking, identify opportunities we should tackle together, and gather continuous feedback
• Define and scope iterations of new capabilities, creating user stories, and engaging with development and engineering to identify how we can deliver value quickly (e.g., with MVPs) and continuously improve capabilities
• Represent Rescale with analysts, press & media
• Be the CEO of your product area. This means identifying investment areas, and prioritizing use cases and product capabilities based on business impact. It also means owning the delivery, field enablement, customer understanding and commercial success of your product

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience building products and services in one or more of the following areas: Core compute, storage, and networking technologies
• Direct experience building products and services in one or more of the following areas: Cloud and SaaS technologies
• Direct experience building products and services in one or more of the following areas: High Performance Computing and Simulation technologies
• Experienced directly collaborating with customers
• Demonstrated ability to ship a high-impact product