Cloud Product Manager

Company: Otava
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

As a Cloud Product Manager, you will manage existing products and services along with creating/integrating new products. As a Cloud Product Manager, you will conduct industry/market research in order to determine product demand, positioning, and availability. You will create formal business cases and product descriptions being responsible for the overall strategy, development, lifecycle operations, and profitability of our public, private and hybrid cloud, service portfolios.Responsibilities

• Own and drive the success of emerging product lines around Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, etc) related services as well as VMware-based cloud solutions.
• Define the vision, market, competitive positioning, and pricing for the suite of cloud services.
• Gather, and prioritize requirements, product definition, and project management of cross-functional peer teams (across engineering, operations, marketing, sales, and finance departments) in order to deliver on-time, in-budget successful deployments.
• Guide and manage complete Cost optimization process, and workload, analyze market demands and trends.
• Gather, analyze and prioritize customer feedback and requirements and translate into frictionless yet profitable services
• Be the advocate and evangelist for internal and external stakeholders and clients, including webinar participation, position papers and training / public speaking,
• Project management of a cross-functional peer team (across engineering, operations, marketing, sales, and finance departments) to deliver on-time, in-budget successful products,
• Own responsibility for overall product line profitability and reporting
• Responsible for creating product documentation including product descriptions, operating guides, sales collateral and training guidesExperience
  • Enterprise cloud technology experience: 3+ years preferred
  • Prior product management experience: 3+ years preferred
  • Experience with Public cloud solutions (Azure, AWS, etc.)
  • VMware cloud infrastructure experience
  • Private, public and hybrid cloud as well as cloud-native integration and interoperability familiarity
  • Cloud storage, data protection and backup vendor and operations familiarity and experience
  • Private, public and hybrid cloud as well as cloud-native integration and interoperability product development or management experience
  • Documentation experience: Writing sales collateral, operations guides, diagrams
  • Technically astute with broad experience and knowledge of cloud-based solutions - from IaaS (infrastructure as a service) to private and public cloud to data portability to backup, storage, and disaster recovery.Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
    • Exceptional project management and cross-functional communications and collaboration skills
    • Proactive and self-directed: must be able to define and scope new initiatives with minimal guidance based on field input and relevant field data
    • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal communication skills among clients of all levels of organizations
    • Knowledge of business: Go-to-market strategy, engineering, operations, industry trends, development pipelines
    • Background in IT infrastructure - storage, networking, compute is a big plusEducation and Certifications
      • Bachelor's degree in business or a related field such as economics, communications, marketing or statistics.
      • Certified Product Manager (CPM) from AIPMM a plus but not required
      • AZ-900 and/or AWS practitionerWhat We OfferRemote work, competitive base salary ($140 - 170K) plus bonus, 401(k) match, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, generous PTO, paid volunteer time off, paid parental leave, and working with world-class co-workers who are just as dedicated and as awesome as you are.---What about---Otava?---At---Otava, we people empowering people to enable growth and we are excited for you to join us!---As a global leader in secure, compliant, enterprise-class cloud hosting, we deliver a full range of solutions from colocation to private and hybrid cloud computing. We're creative thinkers who love to serve others, automate where possible, and change when required. Above all, we love to help our clients. We aim for superior client service in everything we do and strive to get even better.

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