Senior Product Manager, Private Cloud

Description

Job Description: Principal Product Manager – Platform and Tools Portfolio

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 focus, join us and help lead the way in mission critical software.

About the Opportunity

We’re hiring an experienced Product Manager to lead the portfolio level strategy and delivery of our edge to cloud suite of mission critical platforms and tools. This role sits at the intersection of our business strategy and our product roadmap. Working with our various platforms and tools teams this role is responsible for bringing together our entire portfolio into a single GTM strategy.

As the portfolio lead you own the cross product strategy across the business, responsible for defining the vertical and horizontal solutions and value props, the end-to-end portfolio messaging and hybrid product roadmaps.

Key responsibilities include building a consistent UX strategy across all products, prioritization with engineering resources to build unique capabilities within products but find common cores to improve reusability, identify and build out ‘better together’ scenarios across the products.

This role will collaborate closely with the other product leaders, engineering, product marketing and sales.

This role reports directly to Wind River’s Chief Product Officer.

About You

•   10-15 years commercial/enterprise software experience with at least 5 in product management

•   Direct experience building or selling embedded operating systems, cloud platforms, or CICD developer tools 

•   Experience launching and landing enterprise products with a global sales organization and in channel with partners

•   Comfortable working in ambiguity and bringing various teams together for a common outcome.

•   Ability to build simple value propositions from complex technical domains across multiple products

•   Demonstrated application of business rationalization against a technical product

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

•   Collaborative with a bias for action and desire and ability to get things done.

•   Ability to move easily between technical and business discussions.

•   Master’s degree in engineering, computer science or related field, or MBA a plus.

Moderate travel (15-20%) 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