Senior/Principal Product Manager, Filesystems

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack with its innovative product NeuralMesh, which enhances AI data infrastructure. The Senior/Principal Product Manager will lead the filesystem product strategy and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product alignment with market demands and customer needs.

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:

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in product management, with a focus on storage products serving File protocols
• You may not have all of those 10 years in direct product management experience, but you have a track record in these domains as a solution architect, as an engineer, or similar experience
• Expertise in understanding customer needs and can have a meaningful and actionable conversation with customers, partners and engineering
• Demonstrable and deep understanding of network-based filesystems
• Familiarity with the intricacies of high-performance distributed workloads run by customers across a variety of industry verticals
• Strong leadership skills with a history of successfully leading cross-functional teams
• Ability to inspire and motivate team members to achieve ambitious goals while maintaining a collaborative and positive working environment
• Understanding how to influence without authority
• Ability to develop and execute product strategies that align with market trends and customer needs
• Proven ability to translate strategic goals into actionable plans and deliver results
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable presenting product strategies and roadmaps to internal teams and external customers
• Experience with the different personas in the Enterprise IT world
• Familiarity with File workloads in HPC, AI/ML or similar
• Track record of releasing enterprise grade features and products
• Deep knowledge of operating systems
• Familiarity with the NVIDIA stack - advantage