Aerospike

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Job Description: • Develop and drive the multi-year technical roadmap, investment strategy, and lifecycle execution for Aerospike’s core distributed database and its supporting ecosystem. • Translate platform goals into an integrated roadmap covering multiple product areas. • Make thoughtful investment decisions across net-new innovation, elastic platform scalability, multi-tenant cloud economics, and absolute operational reliability. • Conduct regular market and competitive analysis to identify trends and inform strategy. • Collaborate with engineering, field, marketing, customer success, and design teams to deliver aligned and effective outcomes. • Maintain a clear understanding of user needs and advocate for user experience improvements throughout the product lifecycle. • Maintain a portfolio-level view across all related products, ensuring clarity of ownership and coordination. • Prioritize initiatives and themes based on customer needs, technical constraints, and business impact. • Use product data, telemetry, and customer feedback to inform roadmap and success measures. • Support long-term planning and roadmap development across multiple time horizons. • Act as an executive sponsor and senior point of contact for key customers. • Build a deep understanding of enterprise use cases, particularly hybrid and cloud-native deployments. • Represent the developer and database operator perspectives in product decisions and core engineering cycles, driving friction-free deployment automation and world class observability into the platform. • Lead and mentor a team of product managers across the portfolio. • Define and track key performance indicators such as adoption, satisfaction, and business value. • Ensure ongoing measurement of product performance, quality, and customer impact. • Partner with engineering leadership to ensure timely and high-quality product delivery. • Arm sales engineering, marketing, and customer success teams with the technical blueprints and value propositions required to land new and accelerate enterprise adoption. Requirements: • 10 or more years in product management, with at least 5 years focused on enterprise software or data infrastructure in a leadership role. • Proven experience managing a portfolio of interrelated products and teams. • Strong background in distributed systems, database technology, or Kubernetes-based environments. • Exposure to both self-managed and cloud delivery models is preferred. • Familiarity with enterprise IT needs including backup, restore, observability, and deployment automation. Benefits: • Competitive compensation • Benefits • Remote flexibility