Senior Product Manager - Cloudera Manager
Employer · Cloudera
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Cloudera is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Cloudera Manager product. This role owns the product strategy and roadmap for one of the key lifecycle management tools serving the largest global enterprises across all industries including finance, manufacturing, tech and federal. Cloudera Manager is responsible for the lifecycle of mission critical clusters with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data.
Tasks
- Drive Intelligent Product Experiences: Shift the product strategy from infinite customization to a simplified user experience that provides optimal settings no matter the cluster configuration and active guardrails to eliminate operational fragility to prevent self-inflicted outages.
- Simplify Accessibility for IT Generalists: Design intuitive workflows and self-guided administrative tools tailored for IT generalists with minimal big data expertise, making documentation a secondary resource and lowering the barrier to platform management.
- Embed Intelligence: Execute Hybrid Architecture Modernization: Lead the long-term evolution of Cloudera Manager into an orchestrator of clusters across multiple clouds allowing customers to deploy use cases in a hybrid cloud topology.
- Achieve Uninterrupted Core Operations at Scale: Optimize fundamental cluster lifecycle operations to manage environments up to 10,000 nodes, ensuring refresh and maintenance operations on 1,000 node clusters execute within customer approved SLAs.
- Define Predictable Lifecycle & API Guarantees: Establish and enforce structured release lifecycle policies that guarantee public API stability and backward compatibility to remove upgrade friction for enterprise customers.
- Track Operational Success Metrics: Monitor and continuously improve key performance indicators, specifically focusing on increasing operational velocity, boosting prescriptive feature adoption rates, and reducing support escalation volumes.
Conditions & benefits
Generous PTO PolicySupport work life balance with Unplugged DaysFlexible WFH PolicyMental & Physical Wellness programsPhone and Internet Reimbursement programAccess to Continued Career DevelopmentComprehensive Benefits and Competitive PackagesPaid Volunteer TimeEmployee Resource Groups
Requirements
- Bsc/Msc in related field or equivalent experience
- Enterprise Platform Experience: 5 years of experience in the enterprise software space with at least 2 years of Product Management experience. Strong foundational understanding of open datalakes, data movement, enterprise data governance, and big data architecture.
- On-Premise Knowledge: Basic technical understanding of virtualization, data center networking
- Public Cloud Knowledge: Basic technical understanding of VM-based public cloud deployments (IaaS/PaaS), object storage architectures (S3, ADLS, GCS), and network architectures for at least one major hyperscaler (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Simplification & UX Modernization: Demonstrated success in transforming complex, developer-centric platforms into intuitive, "opinionated" products with active guardrails that eliminate manual operational friction.