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Principal Product Manager & Solutions Architect, Cloud Ecosystems

Location: Redwood City, CA, USA

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Job Number: 22343

Position Title: Product Manager 5

External Description:

Our Team

Informatica is the leader in Enterprise Cloud Data Management. Informatica Cloud and Informatica Big Data Management is the growth engine for Informatica in coming years. The product management team for Ecosystems and Strategic Partnerships is the primary center for growth representing the strategic investment by the company. A key goal of this team is to develop technology partnerships leading to joint solutions, new products and content with leading Cloud and Big Data vendors and solution providers driving Informatica product portfolio adoption. This team will be responsible for developing and nurturing a healthy community of users within these ecosystems. The team will play a significant role in platform innovation and expanding Informatica offerings to support the latest market and technology trends around Integration and Data Management including Data Integration, Application Integration, Cloud Analytics, Process Automation, Internet of Things, Big Data and Data Governance. The Principal Product Manager & Solutions Architect will lead the technical program associated with Informatica's solutions for the key ecosystem/s. This includes aligning with ecosystem partner, sales consulting, technical marketing and product teams to help drive the product and solution awareness and field readiness initiatives including product communication strategy, customer engagements, sales enablement and all activities required to support the successful rollout of product or solution in the field. The PM ensures success of early deployments and plays a vital role in generating customer reference assets, product/ solution architectures, best practices and enablement content.

Your Opportunity

In this newly-created role, you will help shape the direction of Informatica integration and data management product portfolio that enables us to further our leadership position in a highly competitive and rapidly changing market. You will:

  • Establish key relationships with ecosystem partners and collaborate to define joint products and solutions that uniquely differentiate Informatica products and partner offering(s)
  • Evangelize the platform representing Informatica at industry events and with customers, prospects, partners as well as internal groups such as Product marketing, Sales, System Integrators, Alliances and Customer Support
  • Lead the market/technology research developing deep understanding of the technology, market and competitors
  • Work collaboratively with ecosystem and platform product managers.

 

 

Our Ideal Candidate

As an integral member of the product management team, you are charged with product line success in the field. Our ideal candidate:

  • possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy, a big picture vision with drive to make the vision a reality with strong execution.
  • enjoys spending time understanding the market and technology shifts, understanding customer problems, synthesizing customer needs and defining innovative solutions.
  • has deep technical experience and knowledge on Cloud Platforms, enterprise middleware products, and/or Big Data.
  • is effective articulating the value proposition/story at varying depth depending upon audience types –Customers, Partners, Decision Makers, Business, Sales and Industry Analysts.

is a leader who makes things happen working collaboratively while providing leadership to various cross functional teams within and outside the organization.

can perform competitive analysis, market, and industry research and leverage your broad industry experience to help develop new ideas and solutions

  • can work closely with key customers and strategic partners to gather and analyze customer problems, use cases, applications usage gaining a deep understanding of solution/ product requirements
  • can prioritize product requirements supported by thorough use case and customer feedback analysis and competitive study.
  • can author “whole” product requirements and go to market plan including dependencies for platform, partner product and go to market including ecosystem, channel, system integrators, field etc.
  • create technical content for blogs posts, tech notes, online forums and discussion groups
  • speak at developer focused events, such as tech conferences, user groups or meetups
  • can build samples and demos that clearly communicates the value of the product, solution or feature.
  • is willing to Travel (approximately 30-40% both domestic and international) for customer visits, industry conferences, supporting marketing activities at trade shows.

 

Your Qualifications and Experience

  • 10+ years in product management, product marketing, sales consulting, technology/ISV partnerships or equivalent.
  • Assured and articulate public speaking skills in front of large and diverse technical audiences
  • Demonstrated success executing in distributed/ global environment.
  • Experience with developing engagement with Sales, Marketing, Sales Consulting, Customer success and Partner teams
  • Experience in driving the success of both mature, stable products as well as new and innovative product concepts.
  • Experience with IaaS and PaaS technologies, middleware technologies, and Big Data. Experience with data management products and technologies is a plus.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, proven track record of building strong relationships and establishing credibility with customers, prospects, analysts, sales, R&D, and the management team are a must
  • Proven organizational and project management skills; ability to multi-task and work on several assignments concurrently required.
  • Self-motivated and team-oriented; able to work both autonomously and effectively as part of a geographically dispersed team.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Computer Science or a related technical discipline; MBA preferred

 

City: Redwood City

State: California

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

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