Senior Staff Product Manager - Data Protection

Role overview

Responsibilities and impact

• Help customers meet aggressive RTO and RPO targets at petabyte scale through reliable backup, rapid recovery, and continuous data availability.
• Accelerate the enterprise data protection and resilience roadmap while balancing innovation, performance, reliability, and compliance.
• Work with customers, engineering, cloud infrastructure, security operations, governance, field teams, and UX on product vision, roadmap, and execution.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of product management experience, including 6+ years leading enterprise data protection, backup and recovery, or disaster recovery products, including for Managed Service Providers.
• Deep technical expertise across backup and storage, deduplication and compression, snapshots, replication, immutable and air-gapped storage, ransomware recovery, DR orchestration, and RPO/RTO optimization.
• Experience embedding backup, recovery, and resilience into enterprise data platforms at petabyte scale with measurable improvements to SLA attainment and recovery confidence.
• Knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, data residency and sovereignty, storage tiering, and cost optimization.
• Strong communication, customer engagement, market analysis, and competitive benchmarking capabilities.

Technical expertise

• Expertise architecting enterprise backup topologies and cyber-resilience strategies across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of platforms such as Rubrik, Veeam, Cohesity, Commvault, Zerto, or NetBackup; and AWS Backup, Azure Backup, or Google Cloud Backup and DR.
• Ability to address protection of AI/ML and analytics datasets, model checkpoints, feature stores, and data pipelines against corruption, deletion, and ransomware.
• Understanding of retention lifecycle management, legal hold, eDiscovery readiness, and compliance schedules for PII, PHI, and PCI data.
• Ability to anticipate next-generation backup architectures, AI-driven anomaly detection, and data sovereignty mandates.