Product Manager - ActiveScale

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the long-term vision for ActiveScale, including scale, performance, data durability, metadata architecture, hybrid-cloud workflows, and cost-optimized storage tiers.
• Identify and validate new market opportunities across AI/ML storage pipelines, media workflows, HPC, analytics, large-scale archiving, and S3-compatible cloud workloads.
• Monitor competitive trends (cloud object stores, on-prem object systems, distributed storage architectures) to guide market positioning.
• Own and maintain the ActiveScale roadmap, balancing customer needs, competitive pressures, and engineering capacity.
• Prioritize features using customer input, business value, telemetry insights, and technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with Engineering to determine release scope, detailed requirements, acceptance criteria, and milestones.

Requirements & Product Design

• Gather feedback from customers, partners, and field teams to translate real-world use cases into clear product requirements.
• Write detailed MRDs, PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria for major enhancements (e.g., S3 API expansion, durability/erasure coding improvements, metadata scaling, observability advances, security and multi-tenant enhancements).
• Partner with architects, QA, and UX teams to develop intuitive management workflows, dashboards, and API-driven integrations.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as the primary interface between Engineering, Sales, Support, Marketing, Operations, and Executive teams for all ActiveScale initiatives.
• Work with Customer Support and L3 Engineering to identify recurring issues, drive product quality improvements, and ensure supportability in large deployments.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineering to provide competitive guidance, develop solution architectures, and support strategic customer engagements.

Customer, Partner & Ecosystem Engagement

• Engage directly with enterprise customers, ISVs, and cloud partners to gather insights, validate roadmap features, and support major deployments.
• Lead roadmap presentations, customer briefings, and technical workshops for key accounts.
• Build strong relationships within the object storage ecosystem, including S3-compatible software and workflow partners.

Lifecycle Management

• Manage the product lifecycle from concept to GA, through maintenance releases, refresh cycles, and EOL planning.
• Contribute to pricing, licensing models, capacity planning, and hardware platform selection.
• Use field telemetry, sizing data, and customer feedback to guide continuous improvements.

Go-to-Market & Launch Ownership

• Work with Marketing to develop product messaging, competitive content, launch materials, and sales enablement collateral.
• Provide training, competitive analysis, and sales tools to Sales and Channel teams.
• Support major product launches, release communications, and public announcements.