VP Product – Core Products

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