Product Manager - Cloud Foundry Pivotal Software, Inc.
New York, NY

Job Description

New York, NY

Pivotal's Story VIDEO

As a recognized leader in disciplined agile and lean software development practices, Pivotal combines the Silicon Valley state of mind, modern approach, and infrastructure with organizations' core expertise and values. Our cloud-native platform and suite of data tools drive software innovation for many of the world's most admired brands, helping enterprises move at start-up speeds and with greater business agility. We optimize for change and teach next-generation developers to create and build new solutions, and are committed to open source and open standards.

Our methodology is about evolving, in both development and innovation, and our culture is empowering. Our 2,000+ employees across offices worldwide subscribe to an ethos of kindness. We make a point to bring empathy to each and every project, and are guided by a purposeful mission-to transform how the world builds software.

You

We're looking for a passionate Product Manager who knows how to define, validate and communicate a product vision. You have seen the power of empowered, balanced teams and believe in Outcomes over Output [video]. You have strong product instincts, but more importantly have an appreciation for and understanding of lean startup, agile and user-centered design values, principles and practices. You make the time to hone your own craft and contribute to the large product management community. You believe in doing the right thing and doing what works. You understand that your obligation to the team is to make fast, concrete decisions despite conflicting priorities.

Us

We believe that teams should spend more of their time delivering incremental value and less on building infrastructure. We're building Cloud Foundry to be an opinionated platform that transforms how the world deploys and scales software. Hundreds of companies rely on Pivotal Cloud Foundry to meet the needs of millions of their customers. Our engineers embrace XP as a way to go fast forever and deliver remarkable results. Our product managers and product designers work side-by-side with our engineers in small, empowered teams, using Lean and UCD as guides. We measure success by making our customers more productive, as both software developers and platform operators. We spend time with our customers to understand and build empathy for the jobs that they need to get done.

Your Day

* Collaboratively define and drive product strategy, vision and roadmap evangelizing to all the teams, partners and users of Pivotal Cloud Foundry
* Work with the team to drive product requirements, design and prototyping process to discover customer problems and create valuable, desirable and feasible solutions
* Collaboratively define and prioritize a backlog for your product that continuously delivers measurable value towards the vision
* Help innovate and iterate on agile PM processes and share our insights
* Actively engage customers and the larger open source community of users

Desired Skills & Experience:

* 3+ years of product management or similar experience, especially with large scale, distributed products
* Able to breakdown complex problems into simple solutions focused on important customer needs
* Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others
* Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making
* Focused on data-driven approaches to solving problems, and accelerating the learning process to validate solutions
* Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and other partners
* Experience with Lean and User-Centered Design methodologies
* Experience with agile development methodology, ideally Extreme Programming
* Understanding of the IT operations or software development space with a passion for understanding the life of Enterprise IT Operators and Application Developers

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.