Lead Product Manager Cloud Infrastructure

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About the position

We are looking for a hands-on cloud infrastructure practitioner who can lead product. You will own the strategy roadmap and execution for AvePoints IaaS and PaaS data protection portfolio across Azure AWS and GCP: compute and virtual machines managed and self-managed databases object and file storage Kubernetes and infrastructure configuration. This is a highly technical product leadership role connecting cloud architecture backup and disaster recovery cyber resilience and SaaS business outcomes.

Cloud Infrastructure is one of AvePoints highest-priority investment areas. You will work closely with principal architects and engineers customers partners and field teams to turn real operational challenges into differentiated capabilities and business growthnot simply manage a backlog.

What makes this role different

Your first-hand infrastructure experience should enable you to challenge designs identify recovery gaps and reason through reliability security performance and cost. Daily production coding is not required but meaningful participation in architectural decisions is. Bring depth in one hyperscaler and transferable knowledge of the others; equal expertise across all three is not expected. Traditional data-center or enterprise-backup experience is valuable but does not substitute for recent production-cloud and SaaS experience.

What you will do

• Lead technical product decisions. Work directly with Architecture and Engineering on cloud APIs snapshots and incremental change mechanisms crash versus application consistency IAM and service identities private networking encryption and customer-managed keys. Review designs for missing requirements operational risks and recovery gaps.

• Own strategy and workload expansion. Set the roadmap and coverage sequence across Azure AWS and GCP. Balance depth versus breadth and define complete protection for each service: backup restore granularity regional and account recovery security performance and cost.

• Shape the SaaS architecture. Partner on control-plane and data-plane responsibilities AvePoint-hosted versus customer-hosted components data movement and storage placement tiering deduplication and compression and the economics of scaling a reliable protection service.

• Drive cyber resilience. Define product direction for immutability and WORM logically isolated copies ransomware and anomaly detection recovery validation and clean or isolated recovery environments. Make provable recoverability part of what the product delivers.

What you will do (continued)

• Own competitive direction. Evaluate third-party protection products and hyperscaler-native capabilities. Turn evidence about customer needs competitive gaps and native-platform limitations into clear investment and positioning decisions.

• Connect discovery to delivery. Work with cloud architects platform and security teams partners MSPs and internal field teams. Translate the problems behind their requests into requirements acceptance criteria and a prioritized backlog informed by telemetry support data and technical risk.

• Measure technical and business outcomes. Track workload coverage backup reliability recovery success and time storage efficiency cost per protected TB adoption ARR growth and competitive win/loss outcomes. Use these measures to guide investment and improve customer and product economics.

• Lead with technical credibility. Support strategic deals proofs of concept and customer architecture discussions. Lead without authority across functions and communicate priorities risks and technical and business trade-offs clearly to engineers executives customers and partners.

• Bring capabilities to market. Partner with Product Marketing Sales and Customer Success on launches positioning packaging pricing guidance technical enablement marketplaces co-sell and MSP programs. Coordinate adjacent AvePoint product dependencies while retaining a clear infrastructure focus.

What you will bring

• Production-cloud experience. 6 years in B2B technology cloud infrastructure enterprise software or a related technical domain including substantial recent hands-on work designing building operating troubleshooting or architecting production cloud workloads. Relevant backgrounds include cloud/platform engineering SRE solutions architecture technical pre-sales and cloud consulting. Demos labs or oversight alone are not sufficient.

• Infrastructure depth. Deep expertise in at least one hyperscaler with working fluency in transferable concepts across the others: compute object/block/file storage managed relational and NoSQL databases VNet/VPC networking and private endpoints IAM/RBAC encryption and key management and availability zones and regions.

• SaaS experience. Understand how a hyperscaler-hosted service operates: control and data planes multi-tenancy customer-cloud connectivity security boundaries scaling reliability observability and cost-to-serve. Experience must extend beyond simply consuming cloud services.

• Infrastructure as code and automation. Working knowledge of tools such as Terraform Bicep/ARM CloudFormation Pulumi or equivalents and how production environments are defined changed and recovered. Expertise in every listed tool is not expected.

What you will bring (continued)

• Kubernetes fluency. Understand cluster versus application state persistent volumes CSI snapshots application consistency and cross-cluster recovery. Working fluency is ; deeper hands-on experience running AKS EKS or GKE in production is highly desirable not mandatory.

• Backup and recovery understanding. Strong familiarity with RPO/RTO point-in-time recovery native backup mechanisms retention snapshots versus independent copies immutability/WORM cross-region and cross-account recovery ransomware resilience and recovery validation. Backup-industry tenure does not replace cloud depth.

• Cloud economics. Understand storage tiering snapshot retention API and transaction costs temporary compute data retrieval and cross-region traffic or egressand how architectural choices affect both customer costs and AvePoints product margin.

• Demonstrated product judgment. Experience shaping shipped technical products platforms or services through customer insight prioritization and trade-offs. Product management or product-adjacent experience counts; a formal PM title is not when technical depth and product judgment are demonstrated.

• Technical credibility. Independently reason through system design question assumptions and identify architectural risks. Discuss scale reliability performance security recovery and cost with principal engineers and architects and translate that understanding into product decisions.

• Leadership and customer communication. Lead without authority listen deeply ask technically sharp questions and communicate clearly with technical and executive audiences. Bring competitive curiosity and use telemetry support evidence and business metrics to guide decisions.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

Helpful not

• Deeper production Kubernetes experience or relevant cloud/Kubernetes certifications.

• Experience with MSPs GSIs or partners delivering managed cloud infrastructure backup or disaster recovery.

• • Experience with cloud marketplaces hyperscaler co-sell or partner-led delivery.

The Salary Range for this role is $150000 - $215000. At AvePoint we strive to offer competitive fair and equitable total rewards. The listed salary range represents a good faith estimate with final offers based on location experience skills and qualifications. The listed range reflects base salary only; our total rewards include base salary comprehensive benefits (medical dental vision 401(k) with match unlimited PTO) and depending on the role bonuses commissions or equity (RSUs). We welcome compensation discussionsapply even if your expectations fall outside the range.