Our customer is a stealth-mode startup building a disruptive product that is designed ground-up to leverage trends in virtualization, solid state drives, and cloud computing. Each of these technologies plays a very critical role in reducing cost and management complexity, improving performance, and providing revolutionary data management capabilities to the enterprise. They are well positioned to deliver a highly innovative product in a market that is very large and growing rapidly.
The company has been founded by professionals with a successful track record of building large-scale enterprise software systems. They have led strong technical and business teams at companies such as Google, Oracle, and a recent high-profile data start-up. The company is well funded by leading venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, and was proudly over-subscribed in its financing round. The company takes pride in being employee-centric. It offers competitive compensation, some of the best employee benefits in the industry, and an extremely attractive stock option plan.
They are looking to hire a Manager (or Director, depending on the experience) of Products to shape its product in its formative years. The position is based at our Santa Clara office.
The Products group is responsible for Product Management and Product Marketing functions, requiring the team members to be equally comfortable in playing inbound and outbound roles. Manager/Director of Products will develop a solid understanding of the market, define the product roadmap and work closely with a deeply technical engineering team to deliver an industry-leading product.
Detailed responsibilities and the required background and skills are described below.
Responsibilities
- Build direct relationships and work closely with early customers
- Define product strategy and roadmap
- Build MRDs and PRDs based on company’s vision and market needs
- Collaborate with engineering team during product development cycles, playing a leading role in
- feature definition and prioritization
- Develop deep understanding of competition and feed that into the product roadmap, market positioning and
- sales toolkit
- Participate in go-to-market strategy development and execution
- Enable direct and indirect sales teams to effectively sell products
Required Background/Skills
- Experience in enterprise software industry, preferably in infrastructure space (virtualization, storage, databases, file systems, clustered systems, etc.)
- Demonstrated success in defining and launching new product
- Ability to collaboratively work with strong technical teams and to influence cross-functional teams
- BS/MS in Engineering and MBA
- Minimum two years of experience in technical product management
Send Cover Letter and Resume to resumes@birddogstaffing.com