Senior Product Manager Virtualization
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Job Summary
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)!
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We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)!
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Time Management
- Data Analytics
- Analytical
- Agile
- Requirement Gathering
- Strategic thinking
- Visio
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Market Research
- UML
- Cross Functional Teams
About Company
Mirantis is an open cloud company that helps organizations achieve digital self determination by giving them complete control over their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent automation and cloud-native expertise for managing and operating virtual machines, contai ... View more
