Imply is a company focused on empowering organizations to achieve more with their data. They are seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the product team and shape the vision and strategy for Imply Lumi, ensuring it meets customer needs and integrates seamlessly with observability technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve the roadmap and own the success of Imply Lumi
- Meet regularly with customers and prospects to understand their needs
- Work alongside founders and our CPO to align on product vision and roadmap
- Drive the launch of new products, capabilities, and features
- Work across multiple teams to deliver large complex features
- Become the face of your product area both for internal and external stakeholders
Requirements:
- 10+ years of product management experience in B2B software, with a focus on infrastructure, observability, security, or data platforms
- Experience working with complex distributed systems or backend services for data ingestion, storage, and access
- Strong technical fluency—you can navigate architecture discussions with engineers and evaluate trade-offs in scalability, latency, and cost
- Proven track record of taking technically complex features to market, with high customer impact and adoption
- Clear and concise communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Passion for customer problems, curiosity to dig deep into use cases, and a bias for action
- Experience as a people manager of product managers
- Project management and excellent communication skills; ability to present at the CxO level
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar; MBA is a plus
- Experience working on observability or SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, New Relic
- Familiarity with open-source technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, OCSF
- Exposure to Apache Druid, Kafka, or other modern data infrastructure stacks
- Background in data engineering or database management