Technical Product Manager - Service Provider

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Independently leads and drives the end-to-end strategy and operational product roadmap for one or more complex products or a product portfolio.
• Define and own the product strategy for multi-tenancy, per-tenant VDC, vApp orchestration, and related infrastructure features.
• Identify customer needs across service providers, large enterprises, and cloud-native teams.
• Builds and delivers the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case to bring innovative and disruptive products to market for a product portfolio.
• Synthesizes market requirements (MRD) into marketing/customer details through having intimate customer knowledge and business, financial, and industry market acumen.
• Guides key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle (e.g., planning, development, launch, management, exit).
• Creates and drives goal alignment and collaborates across product value chain partners to optimize margins and enable success of products throughout their lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study.
• 10+ years of work experience in related field.
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry.
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to define and evolve core platform architecture for SP-class multi-tenancy, logical isolation, resource governance, and policy enforcement.
• Experience with Per-Tenant VDCs supporting elastic compute, storage, and network segmentation.
• Knowledge of vApp management, lifecycle orchestration, and multi-tier app deployments.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of technologies such as VMware Cloud Director, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and other infrastructure-as-code paradigms.
• Extensive team skills and ability to cross-functionally influence work through others, mentor, and lead teams on complex projects.
• Strong skills in cost-efficient solution building, financial performance metrics, and root cause analysis.

Nice to Have

• Cross Domain Knowledge
• Customer Engagement
• Design Thinking
• Development Fundamentals
• DevOps
• Go-to-Market Expertise
• Partner Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Security-First Mindset
• Strategic Pricing
• Strategy Creation
• User Experience (UX)
• Value Creation
• Vendor Management

Qualifications

• Educational background in computer science, engineering, or related fields.
• Relevant industry experience of 10+ years.

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive suite of health & wellbeing benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Programs for personal and professional development to help reach career goals.
• Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness.
• Flexibility to manage work and personal needs.