Principal Product Manager, Filesystems

WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company focused on transforming enterprise data stacks with innovative AI solutions. The Principal Product Manager will lead the filesystem product strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance customer experience and drive product success.

Responsibilities:

• Lead filesystem product strategy, and have a significant contribution to the overall product strategy, aligned with company goals and market demands
• Create and maintain a detailed case for enhancements, ensuring that it reflects the evolving needs of our customers and the ever-changing technology landscape
• Work closely with Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success teams to ensure the seamless integration of features and enhancements
• Support customer-facing teams across geographies and business units with expert knowledge of the product and our plans for it
• Stay on top of relevant industry trends, standards, and emerging technologies, and assimilate the value into the team collective
• Foster a collaborative and innovative environment, encouraging open communication and effective teamwork across different departments

Requirements:

• Expertise: You are a seasoned PM that understands customer needs and can have a meaningful and actionable conversation with customers, partners and engineering
• You may not have direct product management experience within the software industry, but you have a track record in these domains as a solution architect, as an engineer, or similar experience
• You have a demonstrable and deep understanding of network-based filesystems
• You are familiar with the intricacies of high-performance distributed workloads run by customers across a variety of industry verticals and have data points to substantiate why your solutions have been forward-thinking
• Strong leadership skills with a history of successfully leading cross-functional teams
• Product Managers are expected to inspire and motivate team members to achieve ambitious goals while maintaining a collaborative and positive working environment
• You understand how to influence without authority, and your recall of meaningful details supports verbal and written agility
• You are a strategic thinker who can develop and execute product strategies that align with market trends and customer needs, as well as think critically about existing strategies
• You have a proven ability to translate strategic goals into actionable plans and deliver results
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You are comfortable presenting product strategies and roadmaps to internal teams and external customers