About the position
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data - across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We've been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to join our world-class Product team with strong technical skills and deep market knowledge that spans in the areas of Data Protection (Virtualization, Kubernetes technologies). Your skills will accelerate our rapidly-growing SaaS delivery model to solve the disaster recovery needs of our enterprise customers. We are looking for someone who, like us, cares deeply about understanding our customers' needs and takes pride in building awesome products. At Cohesity, we are aggressively taking market share from the legacy players and you'll be instrumental in driving that growth. At Cohesity, product management plays a central role in driving product development by working in close collaboration with our engineering and go-to-market teams. Our team works across all levels of the organization; engaging with executive stakeholders, directly with customers across the globe, and interacting heavily with our user experience team. You'll do your best work at Cohesity with an incredibly talented team!
Responsibilities
- Own our Data Protection product offering in the areas of Virtualization, Kubernetes and related technologies; collaborate on the product lifecycle from inception to launch & beyond
- Gather, analyze, and prioritize inputs from our customers, prospects, partners, analysts and synthesize them into a clear and justifiable business opportunity and set of product requirements to drive the development of the product vision
- Understanding customer needs and requirements and communicating them via succinct written descriptions and having real customer data to help engineering define feature details
- Work closely with the engineering team to formally review product functional specifications prior to development, working with the UX design teams, providing feedback on early engineer releases and feature implementations
- Partner with development, QA, support & marketing to ensure that product meets requirements and stays within schedule
- Drive product strategy, roadmap, and release plans, taking into account business/product priorities and trade-offs
- Follow the agile methodology to execute on projects and participate in sprint meetings
- Execute beta programs with customers to get product or feature feedback
- Work closely with sales and customers to get product feedback that will shape the future of your product
- Enable the sales and technical sales teams so that they can successfully sell the product
- Ensure the voice of the customer is present as we continuously evaluate our roadmap
- PM leadership to iterate and execute on the long-term direction and strategy for your products
- Collaborate with other Product Managers who are passionate about both moving quickly and being customer-centric
- Engage with our talented and growing Go-to-Market team, including our Marketing, Customer Support, and Sales teams
- Work with the User Experience team to shape the customer experience for your product portfolio, as well as debate the art of the possible with our products and how we best support our customer's journey
- Collaborate with an industry-leading engineering team to assess backlogs and build roadmaps.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience in a software company preferably data protection, disaster recovery, and virtualization
- Strong hands-on knowledge of storage and NAS technologies required, including key storage concepts and their applicability
- Strong business data analytics skills, metrics driven prioritization and clearly articulated roadmap
- Working knowledge of network and storage protocols: NFS, SMB, iSCSI, FC, etc
- Ability to quickly understand technologies and architecture, and interpret and articulate them into customer-facing benefits
- Must be able to demonstrate both a passion for technologies and solutions, and a strong aptitude for business strategy
- Willing to travel up to 25% in order to evangelize Cohesity solution with partners, customers and business leaders
- Ability to direct and indirectly influence peers and cross-functional stakeholders
- Strong ability to build relationships with people across all levels and organization
Nice-to-haves
- You have open ears - always listening to customers
- You are scrappy and self-directed
- You value outcomes over effort and drive for clarity on what we want to achieve and orient our effort toward achieving those outcomes
- You think big, bring data, and act decisively with a backbone.
Benefits
- Health and wellness benefits
- Vacation
- Paid holidays and refresh days
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life and disability insurance coverages
- Other benefits the Company may offer from time to time
