Chief Product Officer

About Backblaze

Backblaze is a leading cloud storage and data protection company that delivers simple affordable and scalable solutions to businesses and developers worldwide. With over four exabytes of customer data under management and hundreds of thousands of users globally Backblaze empowers organizations to store use and protect data without the restriction or high costs associated with traditional providers.

Built on a foundation of transparency reliability and customer-centricity Backblaze has earned the trust of AI innovators high-growth startups and enterprise clients seeking high-performance cost-efficient infrastructure. As the AI economy accelerates Backblaze is emerging as a strategic alternative to hyper-scale cloud providers. Over the past year data stored by AI customers has increased 25x including the companys largest-ever contract reinforcing Backblazes value in mission-critical environments.

To support this momentum Backblaze is making significant investments in engineering velocity platform modernization and AI-ready capabilities. Positioned at the intersection of simplicity performance and innovation Backblaze is building the cloud infrastructure needed for the next generation of data-driven companies.

The Role

Youll report to the CEO and lead our Product Management function including UX Design User Research and PMO.

Your mandate: define a market-backed vision turn customer problems into shippable solutions and expand Backblaze into new segments while growing adoption and retention. Youll partner closely with Engineering (for developer experience and delivery) Finance/RevOps (for pricing packaging and ROI) and GTM teams to turn strategy into measurable outcomes.

Location: This position may be remote but we value face-to-face collaboration. Our distributed leadership team meets in person every few months and the role will require roughly 1020% travel to conferences and trade shows.

What Youll Own

• Product vision & strategy Set the multi-year product direction across B2 Cloud Storage and Backup anchored in user problems PLG customer segment understanding and clear bets. Balance innovation and vision with tech debt security compliance and operational realities.
• Roadmap & monetization Decide portfolio priorities and tradeoffs. Run pricing and packaging experiments with Finance/RevOps as core stakeholders. Tie decisions to adoption NRR and margin.
• Developer experience Work with Eng to make APIs SDKs and docs dead-simple. Improve developer activation and time-to-first-success.
• AI & new workloads Serve AI data pipelines (training evaluation artifacts) analytics high-performance computing media workflows and other throughput-intensive workloads with practical features customers will use not buzzwords.
• Enterprise-grade readiness Raise the bar on security compliance data-residency immutability KMS/SSO hybrid patterns and ransomware/backup protections while keeping the Backblaze simplicity customers expect.
• Market expansion Win share in target segments (enterprise IT mid-market global). Tailor offers and GTM with PMM/Sales. Support lighthouse deals when product input moves the needle.
• Customer mechanisms Keep the customers voice at the table: CAB with top accounts design-partner cohorts for emerging bets and post-launch adoption reviews.
• Metrics & outcomes Own the scorecard. Define a small set of product KPIs market share in target segments bytes stored growth activation to first success adoption and NRR customer satisfaction and drive them.
• Team leadership Build coach and scale a strong PM team that can deliver differentiated commercially successful products.

What You Bring

• 15 years in product leadership with deep experience in storage backup or adjacent data infrastructure; senior leadership (VP/CPO) roles in SaaS IaaS or cloud platforms.
• Repeated wins taking a portfolio from vision roadmap adoption revenue including pricing/packaging shifts.
• Track record bringing new differentiated products to market that met customer needs and achieved commercial success.
• Domain depth in storage backup or adjacent data infrastructure; comfort leading developer-facing platforms.
• Proven exposure to AI/ML data pipelines analytics high-performance computing media workflows or security/backup use cases and how infrastructure products can support them.
• Strong enterprise instincts security compliance reliability without sacrificing ease-of-use.
• Habit of direct customer contact and a bias for instrumented decisions research telemetry and field feedback.
• Clear communication across executives customers and teams; you align fast and make hard calls.
• Leadership that matches our values transparent rational and focused on building a durable business.
• Demonstrated ability to attract develop and retain high-performing PMs.

How Youll Work

• Operate in tight partnership with Eng on delivery developer experience and tradeoffs between new bets and tech debt/security/compliance.
• Work with Finance/RevOps on monetization and with Sales/Marketing/Support on adoption and value realization.
• Share context openly insist on simple plans and keep a steady cadence portfolio reviews design-partner sessions and launch/adoption checkpoints.
• Act as the steady voice of both customer and market in the room ensuring product direction stays grounded in real use cases and measurable outcomes.
• Build and lead a PM team that can move fast while holding the line on enterprise-grade expectations.

Backblaze Benefits:

• Healthcare for family including dental and vision
• Competitive compensation and 401K
• RSU grants for full-time employees
• ESPP program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Maternity & paternity leave
• MacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation
• Childcare bonus (human children only)
• Fertility treatment and support
• Learning & development program
• Commuter benefits
• Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance

To provide greater transparency to candidates we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function level and country location benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location skills depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials and may vary from the amounts listed below.

• US - $325000-$375000 Bonus and Equity

At Backblaze we value being fair and good to our customers partners and employees. Thats why diversity equity and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race ethnicity nationality gender sexual orientation age religion socio-economic status ability veteran status and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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