Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Linux

2 Weeks ago • All levels • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

Wind River is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Linux to lead the strategy and roadmap for eLxr Pro, their commercial Debian distribution. This role involves gathering input from customers, sales, and market research to define the future of enterprise Linux at Wind River, with a focus on edge deployments. The Product Manager will own the product lifecycle, write requirements, prioritize the backlog, conduct market research, and collaborate with engineering and sales teams. The company is a global leader in software for mission-critical intelligent systems and has been recognized for its innovation and culture, including Great Place to Work certification. They are involved in projects like NASA space missions and 5G milestones.
Must have:
  • 8+ years managing product lifecycle
  • Experience with open-source/Linux products
  • Strategic planning and roadmap development
  • Agile methodologies and Product Owner experience
  • Writing requirements for engineering
  • Business rationalization against technical product
  • Understanding of Linux ecosystem and enterprise open source
  • Understanding of security, containerization, cloud
  • Strong analytical and communication skills
  • Ability to move between technical and business discussions
  • Bachelor's degree with relevant experience
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Engineering, CS, or MBA
  • Experience with eLxr Project and eLxr Pro
  • Experience with Universal Base Images and Kubernetes
  • Great presenter and advocate for product
Perks:
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and life insurance
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • RRSP matching for financial security
  • Flexible time-off policies for work-life balance
  • Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row
  • 401K with company match
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

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Position at Wind River

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. Weve achieved recent 5G milestones, including the worlds 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 youre 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 distributionWe launched the eLxr Project and its commercial version, eLxr Pro, in 2024 to address challenges presented by todays 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

  Bachelors degree with suitable experience required.  Masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or MBA a plus.

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

Must be a US or Canadian citizen residing in one of the following locations: Walnut Creek, CA, San Diego, CA or Boston, MA with ability to be present on site 3 days/week.    

Benefits and Compensation

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and life insurance 
  • Short and long-term disability coverage 
  • RRSP matching for financial security 
  • Flexible time-off policies for work-life balance 
  • Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row
  • 401K with company match
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
 
Join us at Wind River, where we're not just shaping technology; we're shaping the future of a safer, more connected world. Your journey to make a meaningful impact begins here.   
APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:  
Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here.   
Wind River is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.
Compensation 
The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is currently $195,000 to $220,200 plus a bonus for MA and CA residents, and $220,000 to $270,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.
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