Staff / Principal Product Manager

At Aerospike, our focus is helping companies tackle seemingly insurmountable problems and doing what’s never been done before. That is why we developed the world's leading real-time data platform that powers mission-critical applications at the world's most innovative, category-disrupting companies. Our customers have deployed extreme-scale real-time applications to fight fraud, dramatically increase shopping cart size, enable global digital payments, and deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions of their users.

Staff / Principal Product Manager

Aerospike is seeking Staff and Principal level Product Managers across all areas and products. 

With a focus on Developer and DevOps experiences, the Product Management team ensures our product development efforts are defined and prioritized according to the needs of customers. This includes standard PM responsibilities: continuous customer discovery, gap assessment, product vision definition and feature specification, backlog prioritization, and driving cross-functional alignment. Importantly, these processes are happening in the context of a complex, developer-centric, mission-critical software product.

The ideal candidate has a solid technical background, a mature and self-directed approach to product management, and experience working directly with demanding enterprise customers. 

Reporting to the CPO, we’re looking for someone who believes ‘behind the scenes’ technology can be delivered in an elegant, lovable, and trustworthy package.

Responsibilities

• Customer-centric prioritization: Collaborate with customer-facing teams to understand customer pain points, prioritize critical issues, and develop a nuanced perspective of how to solve customer business problems via roadmap investments.

Growth-centric investments: Propose market expansion opportunities originating from vision and supported by data. Participate in company-wide prioritization planning.

• Product definition process: Lead the end-to-end process of product definition – from opportunity identification, customer value articulation and market sizing through to requirements specification and experience design. Collaborate with Engineering to establish clarity of requirements and ensure what’s delivered meets expectations.
• Data collection and delivery: Partner with Product Operations to identify key metrics for product performance, collect relevant data, and use it to drive informed decisions.
• Stakeholder communication: Foster transparency and decision-making confidence by clearly and regularly communicating goals, progress, and outcomes to various internal stakeholders.
• Whatever it takes: You are the ultimate owner of your product’s success. 

Requirements

• Experience contributing to the improvement and reliability of distributed systems in a mission-critical cloud environment.
• Experience leading complex product development initiatives involving multiple teams and locations, from inception through to ongoing growth.
• Experience collaborating with B2B go-to-market teams, including the education of Product Marketing and Sales Enablement, and the support of Sales teams during deal cycles.
• You may not have be a professional Software Engineer, but you’ve built software first-hand, and understand the concerns and values of a developer audience.

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental
disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

Join us at Aerospike and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management. Apply now to make an impact and accelerate your career in product management!Salary Range for California Based Applicants: [$180,000 - $240,000] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law)

Location: Mountain View, California