At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.
The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!
Your Impact:
- Lead the Solarwinds Platform Product team and work with a talented group of PMs, developers, designers and researchers.
- This role is highly collaborative, working with peer inbound and outbound product managers across offerings, customers, and experienced engineers that build highly available systems and services across the Solarwinds ecosystem.
- This unique role offers the opportunity to grow a team, be hands on with technology, and generate a foundational impact on our growth across our observability and service management portfolios used across 300k customers.
- Drive product vision and strategy that sets us up for success as we look to scale to $1B+.
- Drive adoption and new business opportunities and evangelize the Solarwinds Platform and our AI-powered vision.
- Collaborate with product leaders, customers, researchers, and architects on developing and testing innovative product ideas.
- Engage stakeholders on necessary inputs for product strategy and roadmap, get buy-in, manage communications, expectations, and dependencies.
- Lead a talented team of product managers.
- Requirements Prioritization and Release Management:
- Establish and maintain relationships with the other offering teams to evaluate and manage cross-offering team dependencies
- Create product/feature plans for each release, including acceptance criteria, use cases, success metrics, and related documentation
- Collaborate with engineering team on release mgmt.: understand status, risks, dependencies and help address risks and resolve issues
- Define key product success metrics and ensure they are instrumented and reviewed
Your Experience:
- We’re looking for a highly technical leader with deep experience in driving and leading modern SaaS “platforms as a product”, with a deep understanding of platform technologies and drive vision and clarity at all levels of the organization from customers, our most senior executives, and product internals.
- 15+ years Product Management experience or equivalent experience in a technical role such as software development or solution architecture.
- 5+ years management experience.
- Domain expertise in one or more platform technologies such as databases, APIs, or AI and system design concepts.
- Experience with data platforms, developer platforms, and API platforms.
- Proven track record of driving adoption of products and services at a large software organization and influencing offering leaders.
- Market expertise in one or more of Solarwind’s business domains such as monitoring/observability, incident response, service management, operations management.
- Experience operating and maintaining services at hyper-scale and corresponding system design.
- Strategic mindset: able to define product strategy that achieves strong customer value and business outcomes.
- Technically savvy with experience working with developers and architects to build scalable and highly reliant systems.
- Strong prioritization skills and the discipline to focus on high impact activities.
- Top written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience in gathering, defining and effectively capturing product requirements and transforming them into an actionable product roadmap.
- Customer focus: has deep curiosity about customer needs, as well as a track record in building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Collaborative leadership skills: can use marketing, product, and business knowledge to inform decisions and communicate effectively with/ influence internal and external parties.
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills and a proven process of data-validated, hypothesis-driven, experiment-tested decisions.
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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