Principal Product Manager, Data Services

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As Product Manager in Pure’s Cloud Native Business Unit (Portworx), you will be responsible for the Portworx’s Portworx Data Service (PDS) product including technical roadmap, customer engagement and overall execution. You will be part of the larger initiative that is transforming how companies think of, and use, data services across hybrid-and multi-cloud scenarios. 

In this role you will

• Work with the engineering team and the overall Product Management organization to manage releases and updates of our offerings and bring new features to market.
• Ensure that the product/market fit is constantly measured, product direction continues to delight customers and velocity of execution remains high
• Collect and document input from Portworx users, customers, and other stakeholders to understand customers' needs are met
• Engage with sales and marketing activities, including creating presentations, blogs, demos, and other technical collateral for our offerings
• Review and provide feedback on the product documentation to improve the overall customer experience.
• Work closely with the executive team to establish the scope and goals of the upcoming releases and provide leadership for the program teams
• Foster an active ecosystem of customers and partners - interface with technology partners and vendors, both from the perspective of understanding their technology and product roadmap and influencing them to align with Pure strategy
• You will be based in Bangalore, India. As this is an office-centric role, you are expected to be present in the office for 3 days a week. As outlined in Pure's Hybrid Work Policy, there will be variations over periods of time, depending on business need.

To be successful in this role, you need to have

• 12+ years of combined experience in product management or product development roles
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent, Master’s Degree a plus
• Good understanding of how cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes are transforming the infrastructure landscape and prior experience with cloud infrastructure technologies
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment methodologies
• Broad understanding of the cloud-native services in areas of storage, data management and security
• Ability to drive grooming sessions with teams, when new work should be planned / backlog needs attention
• Demonstrated ability to take charge of tough problems, attacking them from different angles and bring together a diverse array of stakeholders on the same page and drive great business results. 
• Ability to define the right metrics, track and refine them and extract insights to drive decision making. 
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, agile development environment and manage multiple, concurrent priorities and projects
• Ability to do market and competitive analysis to create a compelling strategy that leads to success of the product for our customers and the company
• Deep (5+ years) experience in at least two of the three of: Databases, SaaS, Kubernetes

Last updated on Sep 15, 2023