Aerospike

VPProduct,CoreProducts

$300–335k Mountain View, California, United States; United States Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“VP Product, Core Products at Aerospike. Skills: Product strategy, Roadmap development, Distributed systems, Cloud-native. Develop technical roadmap. Drive technical roadmap”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver aligned outcomes; Deliver effective outcomes; Achieve market success; Ensure timely delivery; Ensure high-quality delivery; Land new customers; Accelerate enterprise adoption

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Navigating ambiguity; Building alignment

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10+ years product management, 5+ years enterprise software, 5+ years data infrastructure leadership, Manage portfolio of products, Manage teams, Distributed systems background, Database technology background, Kubernetes-based environments background, Enterprise IT needs familiarity, Backup familiarity, Restore familiarity, Observability familiarity, Deployment automation familiarity

Nice to Have

Self-managed delivery models exposure, Cloud delivery models exposure

What You'll Do.

Develop technical roadmap

Drive technical roadmap

Develop investment strategy

Drive investment strategy

Develop lifecycle execution

Drive lifecycle execution

Translate platform goals

Make investment decisions

Conduct market analysis

Conduct competitive analysis

Collaborate with engineering

Collaborate with field

Collaborate with marketing

Collaborate with customer success

Collaborate with design teams

Maintain understanding of user needs

Advocate for user experience improvements

Maintain portfolio view

Prioritize initiatives

Use customer feedback

Support long-term planning

Support roadmap development

Act as executive sponsor

Act as senior point of contact

Build understanding of enterprise use cases

Represent developer perspectives

Represent database operator perspectives

Drive deployment automation

Lead product managers

Mentor product managers

Define key performance indicators

Track key performance indicators

Ensure measurement of product performance

Ensure measurement of product quality

Ensure measurement of customer impact

Partner with engineering leadership

Ensure timely product delivery

Ensure high-quality product delivery

Arm sales engineering teams

Arm customer success teams

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Engineering teams; Field teams; Marketing teams; Customer success teams; Design teams

Communication Scope

Clear communicator; Confident communicator; Influence at all levels

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical workloads. We power millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, all while keeping total cost of ownership lower than competing solutions. At Aerospike, we dream big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the world’s real-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability. If you're ready to shape the future of data, join us. We are hiring a product leader to oversee the strategy, execution, and overall success of our Database product family. This includes Aerospike Database, Backup & Recovery, Connectors, Observability, and Aerospike Kubernetes Operator. The role also includes ownership of the Aerospike Database component of our fully-managed cloud products. This is a senior-level, cross-functional leadership position requiring a unique blend of deep distributed systems and cloud-native operational rigor, with a focus on delivering results quickly. It is responsible for the full product lifecycle and plays a key role in shaping Aerospike’s roadmap, customer experience, and market success. Key Responsibilities Product Leadership and Strategy Develop and drive the multi-year technical roadmap, investment strategy, and lifecycle execution for Aerospike’s core distributed database and its supporting ecosystem. Translate platform goals into an integrated roadmap covering multiple product areas. Make thoughtful investment decisions across net-new innovation, elastic platform scalability, multi-tenant cloud economics, and absolute operational reliability. Conduct regular market and competitive analysis to identify trends and inform strategy. Collaborate with engineering, field, marketing, customer success, and design teams to deliver aligned and effective outcomes. Maintain a clear understanding of user needs and advocate for user experience improvements throughout the product lifecycle. Portfolio Management Maintain a portfolio-level view across a

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