Job Description: Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Linux

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy.  Wind River is pioneering the technologies to accelerate the digital transformations of our customers with a new generation of mission critical AI systems, in a world with the most demanding standards for safety, security, performance, and reliability. Our software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones, including the world’s first successful fully virtualized 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.       

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership and for its culture, including global Great Place to Work certification, and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you’re passionate about amplifying your impact on the world in a caring, respectful culture that is based on growth mindset, diversity, inclusion and customer focused, join us and help lead the way into the future of enterprise Linux!

About the Opportunity

We’re hiring an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for eLxr Pro, our commercial Debian distribution.  We launched the eLxr Project and its commercial version, eLxr Pro, in 2024 to address challenges presented by today’s edge-to-cloud deployments and provide a secure, lightweight enterprise Linux based on Debian.

As Product Manager for eLxr (Pro and Project), you will own the strategy and roadmap for this product line end-to-end.  You’ll gather input from external customers, sales, market research, fellow product managers, support teams, and partners, and define the future of enterprise Linux at Wind River with a focus on the edge.       

You will take over some existing projects and roadmap elements and collaborate with other product managers on the team who own other parts of our commercial Linux offering.   You will write requirements, justify investments, prioritize the backlog, own your roadmap, do market research, analyze the competition, collaborate with the sales teams on key deals, review defects, engage with extended teams, and evangelize eLxr Pro and Project both internally and externally.       

You will work in close partnership with experienced Engineering and Product Management teams. 

About You

You are an experienced business leader who is passionate about building great software and have an affinity for open-source software, Linux, and associated tools and technologies.        

•   8+ years managing the entire product lifecycle, from concept to end-of-life

•   Experience managing open-source products or projects, with Linux-based products strongly preferred

•   Experience with strategic planning, roadmap development, feature prioritization, Agile methodologies and the Product Owner role, and project management

•   Experience writing requirements for engineering

•   Demonstrated application of business rationalization against a technical product

•   Excellent understanding of the Linux ecosystem and open source for enterprise

•   Good understanding of security, containerization, and orchestration concepts, cloud technologies and constructs (containers, universal base images, Kubernetes)

•   Strong analytical abilities, with excellent written and oral communication skills with a collaborative mindset

•   Great presenter, public speaker and advocate for your customers and product line

•   Experience supporting customers, account teams, and partners in solution design and strategic partnerships

•   Ability to move easily between product, services, marketing, strategy, and technical discussions

•   Bachelor’s degree with suitable experience required.  Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or MBA a plus.

Moderate travel (5-10%) may be required depending on location.