Responsibilities:
Product Strategy & Execution
- Own the vision strategy and roadmap for KubeVirt-based virtualization products with a focus on easing VMware migration and legacy VM workload modernization.
- Drive requirements based on deep understanding of VM management use cases (e.g. provisioning HA/DR live migration backup/restore monitoring).
- Translate market and customer needs into actionable product features and release plans.
Go-to-Market Leadership
- Craft compelling positioning and messaging targeting customers currently invested in VMware and looking to reduce dependency on proprietary virtualization platforms.
- Partner with sales and marketing to develop enablement assets: migration playbooks competitive battlecards cost comparison models and technical whitepapers.
- Support field teams and customers in engagements focused on VM migration hybrid cloud infrastructure and cost optimization.
Customer & Market Insight
- Engage directly with IT infrastructure teams platform owners and DevOps stakeholders to understand virtualization pain points and goals.
- Monitor the evolving VMware ecosystem (vSphere vCenter ESXi NSX etc.) as well as emerging alternatives and open-source trends.
- Stay informed about licensing cost models security policies and governance concerns related to virtualization.
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with engineering and design teams to deliver reliable scalable VM features on Kubernetes through KubeVirt.
- Ensure roadmap alignment with customer demand and supportability in real-world data center environments.
- Interface with partner ecosystems (e.g. hardware vendors ISVs hybrid cloud providers) to extend solution reach.
Qualifications :
- 5 years of product management experience including ownership of infrastructure or virtualization-related products.
- Deep familiarity with VMware platforms (vSphere vCenter ESXi) and enterprise virtualization use cases (HA vMotion snapshots etc.).
- Strong understanding of KubeVirt Kubernetes and containerization trends.
- Experience helping customers transition from traditional VM environments to Kubernetes or other cloud-native platforms.
- Technical fluency with storage networking backup and disaster recovery as it relates to VM and hybrid environments.
- Comfortable with both strategic product planning and tactical GTM execution.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skillsable to influence engineering sales and C-level stakeholders alike.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Familiarity with VMware-to-KubeVirt migration tooling such as virt-v2v or Forklift.
- Understanding of cloud service provider virtualization offerings (e.g. AWS EC2 Azure Virtual Machines Google Compute Engine).
Additional Information :
What does Mirantis offer you
- Help define the next generation of open virtualizationcloud-native open-source and enterprise-ready.
- Lead the charge in helping companies move off expensive legacy virtualization stacks.
- Work in a collaborative globally distributed team that values innovation and autonomy.
- Competitive salary benefits and opportunities for leadership and growth in a high-impact product role.
- Mirantis is a Leader for Container Management (#2 after AWS)!
We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)!
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time