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Senior Director Product Management, Big Data

Location: Redwood City, CA, USA

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Job Number: 22390

Position Title: Senior Director, Product Mgmt

External Description:

Sr. Director of Product Management,

Big Data

 

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 Sr. Director of Product Management, Ecosystem Programs will lead the outbound programs associated with Informatica’ s solutions for the key ecosystem/s. This includes aligning with partner, sales, marketing and product teams to help drive the GTM product strategy, field engagement strategy, product communication strategy, customer activities, sales enablement, existing account development and all activities required to support the sales funnel for direct and partner sales, and continuous customer engagement activities to support deployments and customer reference assets.

 

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:

  • Manage a small global team of highly skilled outbound product managers.
  • Lead the market/technology research developing deep understanding of the technology, market and competitors
  • 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, Allaiances and Customer Support
  • 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 relevant experience and technical knowledge on Big Data, Cloud Platforms and/or enterprise middleware products.
  • 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 develop GTM strategy and author market requirements document and go to market plan. Identify key marketing collateral and sales plays to support Informatica business goals for the ecosystem.

·         can develop and drive product launch activities with product, field and marketing teams.

·         can develop and champion product positioning, develop sales strategy, validate market messaging, and evangelize your product offerings both internally and externally

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

·         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

  • 15+ years in product management, product marketing, sales consulting, technology/ISV partnerships or equivalent.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading distributed team.
  • Ability to establish, communicate and manage work objectives for team.
  • Proven ability to lead and mentor and bring out the best in subordinates creating a high performing team.
  • Prior experience in driving expansion of a software product across technology partner ecosystems and channels.
  • 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 performing market analysis and competitive analysis and define market requirement documents.
  • Ability to contribute to defining a strategic vision and to articulate it in front of a variety of audiences
  • Ability to clearly articulate and present the product value proposition internally and externally with customers and partners.
  • Experience with Big Data, IaaS and PaaS technologies, middleware technologies. Experience with data management products and technologies is a plus.
  • Track record of instigating go-to-market plans and subsequent sales follow-though
  • Experience with middleware (application development and integration) products and technologies is a plus.
  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and presentation skills; solid business acumen; well-honed influencing skills are essential
  • 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: Director

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