Principal/ Director of Product Management

Informatica is the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software. Thousands of organizations rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data to drive their top business imperatives. To maximize return on data, Informatica increases the value of data by delivering relevant, trustworthy, timely, authoritative, actionable, accessible, holistic and secure data.

You will help shape the strategy and direction of Informatica Cloud Data Integration that enables us to further our leadership position in a highly competitive and rapidly changing market. You will lead the market research, requirements definition and subsequent delivery of new and innovative capabilities providing clear differentiation and scintillating user experience for the next generation data integration users in the cloud. You will work closely with other Informatica product teams and managers for bringing end to end data management capability in the Informatica Cloud platform.

You will have the opportunity to work with leading technologies as Informatica leverages its Data Integration platform for a wide number of use cases including big data, cloud, batch and real-time data integration, data quality, data virtualization, data archiving and sub-setting, B2B integration and master data management. You will have regular interaction with external constituents such as customers, prospects, industry analysts and partners, as well as internal groups such as R&D, product marketing, technical sales and customer support.

As an integral member of the product team, you are charged with product line success. Based in Redwood City, California, and reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, you will:

• 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
• Perform competitive analysis, market, and industry research and leverage your broad industry experience to help develop new ideas and solutions
• Prioritize product direction by maintaining a detailed product roadmap supported by thorough analysis and competitive positioning for key areas of the Informatica Cloud IPaaS platform.
• Work with other product groups in Informatica to onboard new multitenant cloud services to Informatica Cloud.
• Contribute and/or develop various aspects of sales kits including whitepapers, messaging documents, presentations and product demonstrations
• Travel (approximately 10-15% both domestic and international) for customer visits, industry conferences, providing thought leadership and evangelism, supporting marketing activities at trade shows, as well as visiting Informatica offices worldwide

Our Ideal Candidate

• You have past experience working on enterprise grade software products
• You possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy, a big picture vision and drive to make the vision a reality
• You have the passion and ability to work across groups on collaborative projects
• You enjoy spending time understanding the market and technology shifts, understanding customer problems, synthesizing needs and defining innovative products and solutions
• You have relevant experience and deep technical knowledge of cloud applications (SaaS), Middleware (PaaS), IaaS, enterprise software or/and enterprise middleware products
• You are comfortable being hands-on with Cloud products and technologies while also able to articulate the value proposition/story at varying depth depending upon audience types – Integration Experts, Customers, Partners, Decision Makers, Business, Sales and Industry Analysts
• You enjoy working with people as well as new products and technologies; you like owning the definition, product requirements (PRD), delivery and success of the product/solution through the entire life cycle
• You are a leader who will make things happen working collaboratively with various cross functional teams within and outside the organization – architecture, engineering, marketing, sales and services

Your Qualifications and Experience

• 8 or more years in product management or equivalent roles with activity spanning writing detailed requirement specifications, gathering and prioritizing customer requirements and defining product roadmap.
• Ability to perform market analysis and competitive analysis and define product requirements, product release plans, and technical demos
• Ability to clearly articulate and present the product value proposition internally and externally with customers and partners • Strong knowledge of Cloud (SaaS, PaaS or/and IaaS); experience with a leading cloud application or service is a plus. Working knowledge on Amazon AWS platform services is a plus.
• Experience with middleware (application development and integration) products and technologies is a plus – Data Integration, ETL, EAI, Enterprise Service Bus, Service Orchestration, BPM, Web and Application Servers, User Interface.
• Experience with technology standards such as Databases, NOSQL, Application Servers, and data standards and protocols such as XML, JSON, REST etc.
• 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/Masters degree in Engineering/Computer Science or a related technical discipline; MBA preferred