Senior Product Line Manager – OpenStack Distributed Cloud

Location: US Remote

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

As Senior Product Line Manager on the Wind River Product Management team, you will take ownership of key components and use cases at the heart of the Wind River Studio cloud portfolio of products. You’ll be responsible for establishing a roadmap for supporting Virtualized applications with OpenStack and other new and upcoming cloud native technologies. Working closely with engineering teams, customers, partners, executive leadership, and services team leverage your technical, analytical, process and strategic skills towards executing high impact value added opportunities. The role requires passion for building outstanding products that customers love to use, appreciation for working with great engineers, willingness to do what it takes to help grow the business, wisdom to make tough tradeoffs and keep up with a high pace growth environment.

Interface & Collaboration

Work closely with engineering teams, customers, partners, executive leadership, and services team, leveraging your technical, analytical, process and strategic skills towards executing high impact value added opportunities. Work shoulder to shoulder with a high caliber engineering team to deliver high quality product. Collaborate with marketing, sales, professional services and other partners to drive revenue opportunities. You will report directly to VP of Product Management.

Essential Responsibilities

• Define and own the strategy, roadmap for Virtualized applications (OpenStack, Cloud Native) and Distributed Cloud portfolio
• Define use cases, product requirements and multi-year product roadmap
• Evangelize and drive the product roadmap across various functional teams within Wind River
• Proactively engage with the customer, actively listen to their challenges and help craft appropriate solutions tying back to product capabilities
• Holistically analyze the Virtualized applications market in the context of Far Edge Cloud deployments, customer needs, trends and competitors to determine opportunities for Wind River
• Demonstrate a positive demeanor and flexibility to jump in and roll-up your sleeves when the situation demands
• Leverage diplomacy, integrity and presence to enable you to work effectively at all levels within a large organization
• Work shoulder to shoulder with a high caliber engineering team to deliver high quality product
• Collaborate with marketing, sales, professional services and other partners to drive revenue opportunities

CORE COMPETENCIES & DEMONSTRATED SUCCESS

• Deep expertise in one or more of the following technology areas:
• Experience and expertise in OpenStack
• Telco background in RAN or Core a plus
• Familiarity with Far Edge Cloud deployments and Public cloud landscape with expertise in one of the following: Distributed Cloud, Telco segment (RAN & Core), SaaS, IaaS, Paas
• Experience with Open Source technologies/projects
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Effective writing skills with the ability to write clearly to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Experience and comfort with public speaking
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, and the ability to translate those skills into a proven track record in delivering successful, award winning online products

Qualifications/Requirements

• BA/BS required in Computer Science or related technical degree
• MS/MBA preferred
• Demonstrated credibility with customers, partners and cross-functional stakeholders
• A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in product management capacity
• Customer facing and market analysis experience highly preferred

 BENEFITS           

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote 
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row 
• Wind River’s commitment to DEIB 
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance* 
• Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays 
• 401K with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) *
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind 

*Varies by region and country 

Compensation                

The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is currently $141,700 to $185,000 plus a bonus for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $166,000 to $215,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.  Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics. 

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com. 

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