ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and  building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Reporting to the Director for DevSecOps Products, this position will be an integral part of the Product team that defines and realizes Wind River’s Studio vision. You will help define and drive activities in relevant target segments with particular focus on value-add services in the areas of Observability within DevSecOps. You will collaborate with multiple teams including Engineering, UX, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, and present your ideas and plans to leadership. We are in a dynamic, fast-paced industry where you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact while helping to delight our customers!

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Developing product strategy: Identifying market opportunities, customer needs, and competitive landscape
• Defining product features: Prioritizing features and enhancements based on customer feedback, market trends, and business objectives
• Planning: Creating a product roadmap, managing the product lifecycle, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Executing: Translate business requirements into clear, actionable technical specifications for development. Craft compelling user stories that maximize value and address user needs. Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) and advocate for improvements based on user feedback
• Engaging with customers: Gathering feedback, conducting product demos, and training sessions
• Measuring success: Defining and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Communicating: Presenting product concepts, roadmaps, and delivery timelines to stakeholders
• Building proof-of-concepts: Collaborating with engineering to build proof-of-concepts for potential solutions

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

• Lead without authority; can easily drive consensus, broker compromise across groups, persuade others to your way of thinking
• Solve problems rapidly, easily, efficiently, and optimally
• Customer empathy; able to discover, understand, and address the deeper underlying problems and design transformative solutions for them
• Motivate others; Help maintain a healthy development velocity through timely & accurate communication, prioritization guidance, product leadership
• Comfortable and effective working in a virtual team, with other virtual teams worldwide
• Ability to define and create compelling product demos with focus on key use cases
• Strong public speaking skills; comfortable delivering presentations, talks, and demos to large audiences, executives
• Experience working closely with Ux, Marketing on GTM planning

 
Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree + 7 years of experience, Master’s degree +5 years, or equivalent experience
• A deep understanding of observability, monitoring, and how customers work with data
• Experience working with DevOps methodologies and practices
• Experience with observability/monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and similar
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with API design and integration.
• Excellent verbal, and written communication skills
• Strong analytical thinking, strategic as well as tactical planning skills 

BENEFITS

• Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work
• Medical insurance: Private health insurance
• Vacation and Time off: Employees are eligible for various types of paid time off.
• Wellness reimbursement: To promote healthy living and encourage employees’ well-being.
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee association
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind

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