Product Manager
About Scale Computing
Scale Computing is a global business with offices around the world, thousands of customers, and countless applications running on our industry-leading SC//Platform. We enjoy this success because we have made a conscious effort to build this company amazing person by amazing person—could you be the next to join us as the newest Scaler?
About the Role
Our Product Management Team is looking to hire a Product Manager in San Francisco, CA (preferred), Indianapolis, IN or remote. As a Product Manager working with our Autonomous Infrastructure Management Engine team, you will be responsible for overseeing the innovation in our KVM-based hypervisor, including managing the product's entire lifecycle, from concept to launch and continuous improvement. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, sales, and customer support to ensure the product delivers exceptional value to our customers and meets market demands.
Responsibilities
- Product Strategy & Roadmap: Develop and own the product roadmap for the HyperCore hypervisor, aligning it with the company’s strategic objectives.
- Market Research & Analysis: Conduct competitive analysis and gather customer feedback to identify market needs and opportunities for product enhancement.
- Feature Definition & Prioritization: Define, prioritize, and communicate product features and requirements to the engineering team, ensuring they deliver high-impact value.
- Collaboration: Work closely with engineering and quality engineering teams to ensure timely delivery of features and product releases.
- Cross-functional Leadership: Coordinate across different engineering software component teams to introduce features and enhancements that drive product awareness, adoption, and customer satisfaction.
- Customer Engagement: Interface directly with customers to gather feedback, understand pain points, and ensure the product is solving their challenges.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Product Manager, ideally working on virtualization technologies or infrastructure products.
- Strong understanding of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and other virtualization technologies, including:
- Experience with managing the full product lifecycle—from ideation to execution.
- Solid knowledge of infrastructure technologies, with an emphasis on private cloud and on-premise compute and storage.
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies and product management tools (e.g., github, savio).
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
- Ability to analyze complex technical concepts and present them in a clear and compelling way to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to deliver innovation in small chunks that satisfy minimum requirements in order to maximize speed of delivery.
- Strong business acumen, technical aptitude, analytical skills, & attention to detail
- Ability to manage and prioritize projects and ticketing systems with a Team and external Contractors.
- Willingness to travel up to 20%.
Other useful skills/experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Previous experience working in a B2B technology company.
- Familiarity with open-source projects or contributions to the virtualization community.
- Experience with public/private cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.) and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of networking concepts and common networking protocols
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive, based on experience
- Stock options
- Competitive Health Plan including Medical (HDHP & PPO options), Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, & Life Insurance options
- PTO & paid Company holidays
- 401k Plan with match
If you've reached this point in the job description and feel you're still not sure if you should apply...Just do it! We know there are no perfect applicants. You may not have 100% of all those bullets listed above- and that's okay. If you're feeling like you're not going to fit in with our teams - you'll be surprised. We're all working towards the same goal at Scale Computing. Whoever you are and whatever background you bring, we encourage you to submit an application if it's a role you can be passionate about doing every day.
Scale Computing was founded on the belief that transparency and collaboration create a culture of ownership, success, and empowerment; more empowered employees are more productive employees. At Scale Computing, we build empowerment through diversity and our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Collaboration, Success, and Fun. We believe everyone has an important role. We look for highly motivated, smart, fun people to fill those roles. If working with other amazing people to help us build a wildly successful company sounds like fun to you, we'd love to hear from you.
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