Principal/ Director of Product Management, Informatica Cloud, IPaaS Platform

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.

Our Team Informatica Cloud is the leader in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) and is the fastest growing product line within Informatica. The product management team for Informatica Cloud, 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 technical partnerships leading to joint solutions, new products and enhancements and content with leading SaaS and PaaS vendors and solution providers driving Informatica Cloud platform 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 Cloud offerings to support the latest market and technology trends on Cloud and Hybrid Integration including Data Integration, Application Integration, Cloud Analytics, Process Automation, Internet of Things, Mobile and Big Data.

Your Opportunity In this newly-created individual contributor role, you will help shape the direction of Informatica Cloud that enables us to further our leadership position in a highly competitive and rapidly changing market.

• Define strategy and product roadmap for key areas of the Informatica Cloud IPaaS Platform including
  • Cloud based elastic agent infrastructure, agent grids and high availability
  • Multi-tenancy and Cloud Organizations,
  • Tools kits and API frameworks for ISV and other OEM embedded solutions
  • Security for IPaaS platform
• Work with customers and partners and prioritize themes and documents requirements.
• Work with other product teams and product managers in Informatica and act as a technical liaison for bringing new multitenant services to the cloud, for products such as Data Quality, Bigdata, IOT and Master Data Management.
• Work with R&D organizations driving product requirements and ensuring timely release of products and solutions, managing the complete life cycle of products/ modules you are responsible for.
• Evangelize the platform representing Informatica at industry events and with customers, prospects, partners as well as internal groups such as R&D, product marketing, Sales, 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 VP 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

• 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

• 8-10 or more years in technical product management.
• 2-3 years in engineering with software background earlier in the career is preferred.
• 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.
• Experience or knowledge in security standards.
• Experience with embedding or embedded technologies in a web or mobile application 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/Masters degree in Engineering /Computer Science or a related technical discipline; MBA preferred