Product Manager

Summary

Join Platform9 as a Product Manager for Private Cloud Director, a flagship product offering enterprises a VMware alternative for managing virtualized and Kubernetes infrastructure. You will lead the product vision and execution, working closely with customers, engineering, and go-to-market teams. Define the product roadmap, ensure its execution, and act as a trusted advisor to key customers. This role requires strong communication, leadership, and a deep understanding of virtualization and cloud technologies. You will report to the VP of Product and be responsible for defining product strategy, gathering customer feedback, and translating that into innovative solutions. The position offers competitive compensation, equity, and a hybrid work model.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer science with minimum 2 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering leadership team to define Platform9’s product strategy and roadmap for our virtualization and bare metal product
• Work closely with Platform9 customers and the broad community of open source users and contributors to build a deep understanding of their processes and pain points
• Transform your knowledge and expertise into innovative solutions that redefine how private cloud technology is consumed
• 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 better 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation and Equity
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family
• Hybrid Work Model
• Wellness Benefits
• Professional Development/Global certifications
• Reward and Recognition Programs
• Team Building Activities