Responsibilities:
- Define and drive Solo.io’s product vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with company objectives and market trends.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product managers to deliver on Solo’s strategic goals.
- Collaborate with engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success to deliver world-class products that meet market demands and delight customers.
- Direct engagement with customers, prospects, and analysts to stay at the forefront of emerging trends, customer needs, and competitive dynamics in our industry.
- Evaluate opportunities for strategic expansion within current, adjacent, and net new markets as part of Solo’s overall product and partnership strategy.
- Represent the product organization in executive discussions, contributing to overall company strategy and decision-making.
- Work hands-on with the product and engineering teams to analyze, design, define, and execute on product features and enhancements.
- Partner with marketing and sales to craft compelling messaging, positioning, and go-to-market strategies for Solo.io’s product portfolio.
Required Experience:
- 8+ years of product management or equivalent experience, including 3+ years in a product leadership position.
- Demonstrated success in managing a technical product portfolio, ideally in the cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystems.
- Proven ability to define and execute on a compelling product vision and roadmap, with a track record of thriving in flat, highly cross-functional organizations.
- Strong technical background, such as a degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience engaging directly with enterprise customers and translating complex needs into actionable product requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to a fast-moving, high-growth environment.
- Expertise in API connectivity, service mesh, and related technologies is a strong plus.
Solo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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What We Do
Solo offers Gloo Edge, an API gateway for application traffic, and Gloo Mesh, a service mesh control plane. Building on industry-leading open source Istio and Envoy Proxy, only Solo can help you simplify your operations with unified control, reliability, observability, extensibility, and security. We reduce your effort and risk, so you can focus on innovation with your applications. Founded in 2017 in Cambridge, MA, Solo.io is backed by Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures.