Staff Product Manager, Network Observability

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

Bonus Qualifications

About NetBox Labs:

Our culture and values:

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of product management leadership in B2B software, including 3+ years on technically complex products such as networking & infrastructure, observability, security, or developer platforms.
• Product experience in network observability, monitoring, or telemetry.
• Fluent across observability technologies. SNMP, streaming telemetry (gNMI), flow data (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX), OpenTelemetry and clear on the strengths and limits of each.
• A builder. Comfortable in a codebase, able to script against APIs, stand up a prototype, read a pull request, and hold your own in a room full of engineers.
• Able to translate deep technical detail into business value, in writing and in the room, for audiences from engineers to executives
• Strong track record of owning products across the full lifecycle, and the autonomy to run a product line without being managed into it
• Strong cross-functional influence, with the ability to drive alignment across engineering, CS, and GTM.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where none exists
• Experience with open source products and communities.
• Familiarity with network automation or source-of-truth tooling.
• Experience shipping products delivered both on-prem and as SaaS.
• Exposure to device discovery or inventory ingestion pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Own NetBox Labs Observability features and products, turning product strategy into a scoped, sequenced roadmap and driving it from definition through GA and iteration across Cloud and Enterprise deployments.
• Be a subject matter expert in network observability and how telemetry is collected, modelled, and used by operators to detect, troubleshoot, and resolve real problems in production networks.
• Translate deep technical capability into business value for customers, sales, customer success, and leadership, and equip GTM teams with the positioning, demos, and technical enablement to sell it.
• Prototype to answer product questions fast and validate ideas with engineering and customers.
• Engage directly with customers and prospects in discovery, technical pre-sales conversations, and design partner programs.
• Partner across our Discovery and Assurance teams to ensure Observability, Discovery, and Assurance fit together as coherent platform offerings.
• Define and own Observability success metrics and use them to drive roadmap decisions.
• 7-10+ years of product management leadership in B2B software, including 3+ years on technically complex products such as networking & infrastructure, observability, security, or developer platforms.
• Product experience in network observability, monitoring, or telemetry.
• Fluent across observability technologies. SNMP, streaming telemetry (gNMI), flow data (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX), OpenTelemetry and clear on the strengths and limits of each.
• A builder. Comfortable in a codebase, able to script against APIs, stand up a prototype, read a pull request, and hold your own in a room full of engineers.
• Able to translate deep technical detail into business value, in writing and in the room, for audiences from engineers to executives
• Strong track record of owning products across the full lifecycle, and the autonomy to run a product line without being managed into it
• Strong cross-functional influence, with the ability to drive alignment across engineering, CS, and GTM.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where none exists
• Experience with open source products and communities.
• Familiarity with network automation or source-of-truth tooling.
• Experience shipping products delivered both on-prem and as SaaS.
• Exposure to device discovery or inventory ingestion pipelines.