Senior Product Manager, Platform

About the Role: 

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager (or experienced engineer/sales consultant with relevant domain expertise) to guide the evolution of our core product capabilities for the Redpanda streaming data platform. Reporting to the Head of Product, Platform, you will work with customers and study the market to gather data, drive the strategic roadmap for several of Redpanda’s core platform capabilities, and guide their inclusion into our self-hosted, SaaS and serverless cloud offerings. You will also help drive the technological vision in these areas, following the latest trends and advising the team on new technologies, standards, approaches, and potential partners in order to stay on the leading edge.

This is an opportunity to work closely with product and engineering leadership and the respective teams at a fast-growing, well-funded startup, building and delivering category-leading products. This role requires deep comfort with enterprise infrastructure technology, working closely with customers often in high pressure situations, and collaborating cross-functionally across technical and non-technical teams in a fast-paced environment, juggling many tasks and responsibilities.

You Will: 

• Meet with customers, analyze the competitive landscape, and identify market opportunities to shape the company's product strategy in your areas of responsibility
• Define requirements for new features through PRDs and prioritize them appropriately in the product roadmap.  Some examples of major functional areas Platform PMs work on include Enterprise Disaster Recovery, compute frameworks & SDKs (WebAssembly Data Transforms), storage engine features (Tiered Storage, Apache Iceberg, Compaction), security features (SSO/OIDC,RBAC), new Kafka APIs and features (e.g. Queues), Observability (Prometheus/Datadog integration, etc.) performance/multi-tenancy features such as resource quotas.  Interfaces such as Redpanda Console and our CLI ‘RPK’ provide an approachable UX for these core features, and delivering features end-to-end often includes working with our design team to deliver the optimal UX through a mix of GUI, CLI, API and core function behaviors, as well as making general improvement to the DevEx, if that’s your thing
• Communicate new features internally and externally and help articulate the value proposition, messaging, and pricing.  This involves training GTM teams, sharing roadmap and product pitches with customers, writing public blogs, attending industry conferences, and potentially briefing industry analysts
• Collaborate with multiple internal teams (including Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success) to ensure we ship the right features, at the right time, with the right user experience to match the expectations of our ICP and various user personas
• Own delivery of features end-to-end, picking up tasks wherever needed, reviewing documentation, and creating the telemetry required to measure the success of feature launches after rollout

You Have: 

• 2+ years of experience in direct role-related product management for B2B enterprise software platforms, particularly data infrastructure, data integration or other distributed systems. Alternatively, 5+ years of experience in a sales consulting / customer success role supporting B2B enterprise software sales
• 5+ years of experience overall experience in enterprise software companies
• Experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams
• Work with a 100% distributed / remote team, collaborating in GitHub/JIRA Slack, Google docs and other modern productivity tools & requirements trackers (e.g. Aha) independently and efficiently
• Comfortable switching context frequently to address customer, engineering, and go-to-market issues and requests
• Experience working closely with highly technical products and customers 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability  to concisely explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences (and vice-versa)

U.S. base salary range for this role is $189,000 - $222,000 (CA, NY, WA) and  $180,000 - $212,000 (other US locations). Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.