Director, Product Management (Remote)

Imply is a data technology company focused on helping organizations gain insights from observability and security data through its Imply Lumi observability warehouse. The Director of Product Management will lead the product management team, own Lumi’s strategy and roadmap, and drive the development and launch of scalable, cost-effective data platform capabilities. The role also involves customer engagement, cross-functional delivery, and coaching a team of product managers.

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