Staff Product Manager

Backblaze is a leader in object storage and is seeking a Staff Product Manager to enhance their B2 cloud object storage offerings. The role involves driving product strategy and roadmap development, leading the product development lifecycle, and collaborating with various teams to address customer challenges and market opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Drive B2 product strategy and roadmap development through to delivery execution
• Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle from discovery through delivery in feature development
• Gather and synthesize inputs for discovery and prioritization from internal functions, customers, and partners across the full spectrum of R&D development of feature capabilities, user experience challenges, cost optimization, and technical debt
• Translate complex customer challenges into clear, concise and actionable product requirements in collaboration with Design, Engineering and GTM teams
• Collaborate with Product Marketing to launch and drive adoption of new products and features. Act as a subject matter expert and evangelist for Backblaze's solutions, presenting to customers, prospects, partners, and to internal teams
• Establish and track key product metrics (KPIs), using data to guide iteration and growth decisions
• Maintain a deep understanding of the latest advancements in the object storage market across its application in customer use cases and competitive offerings to identify new opportunities and ensure Backblaze’s market leadership position

Requirements:

• 6+ years of Product Management experience in tech businesses, preferably on IaaS and/or SaaS offerings
• A proven track record of successfully launching and scaling technical products / platforms in high-growth businesses involving in-depth cross-functional collaboration and leadership across R&D and go-to-market functions
• Strong grasp of cloud architecture, APIs, and security and compliance
• Proven success in owning product roadmaps, defining MVPs, and driving the complete product life cycle
• Strategic thinker who can translate market trends, customer needs, and technical innovations into a clear product vision and actionable roadmap
• Deep empathy for customers / users in gathering and synthesizing input and a passion for solving their most pressing security challenges
• Outstanding communication and leadership skills with a collaborative and team-oriented approach to identifying problems, determining potential solutions, and building consensus around your vision with internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience applying data and metrics to inform product decisions and measure success
• Expertise in cloud storage and computing from hyperscale and neocloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, GPU clouds, CDNs, etc
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• MBA degree
• Application development programming experience
• Expertise in applying GenAI in solution prototyping and agentic workflow development