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VP Product, Core Products

Aerospike, Inc.
USA
Full-time
Senior · 10+ years experience
Onsite
USD 300000-335000 yearly / year
Discovered 1 months ago
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Product Leadership and Strategy

Develop and drive the multi-year technical roadmap, investment strategy, and lifecycle execution for Aerospike’s core distributed database and its supporting ecosystem.

Translate platform goals into an integrated roadmap covering multiple product areas.

Make thoughtful investment decisions across net-new innovation, elastic platform scalability, multi-tenant cloud economics, and absolute operational reliability.

Conduct regular market and competitive analysis to identify trends and inform strategy.

Collaborate with engineering, field, marketing, customer success, and design teams to deliver aligned and effective outcomes.

Maintain a clear understanding of user needs and advocate for user experience improvements throughout the product lifecycle.

Portfolio Management

Maintain a portfolio-level view across all related products, ensuring clarity of ownership and coordination.

Prioritize initiatives and themes based on customer needs, technical constraints, and business impact.

Use product data, telemetry, and customer feedback to inform roadmap and success measures.

Support long-term planning and roadmap development across multiple time horizons.

Customer Engagement and Advocacy

Act as an executive sponsor and senior point of contact for key customers.

Build a deep understanding of enterprise use cases, particularly hybrid and cloud-native deployments.

Represent the developer and database operator perspectives in product decisions and core engineering cycles, driving friction-free deployment automation and world class observability into the platform.

Execution and Delivery

Lead and mentor a team of product managers across the portfolio.

Define and track key performance indicators such as adoption, satisfaction, and business value.

Ensure ongoing measurement of product performance, quality, and customer impact.

Partner with engineering leadership to ensure timely and high-quality product delivery.

Arm sales engineering, marketing, and customer success teams with the technical blueprints and value propositions required to land new and accelerate enterprise adoption.

Qualifications

  • 10 or more years in product management, with at least 5 years focused on enterprise software or data infrastructure in a leadership role.
  • Proven experience managing a portfolio of interrelated products and teams.
  • Strong background in distributed systems, database technology, or Kubernetes-based environments.
  • Exposure to both self-managed and cloud delivery models is preferred.
  • Familiarity with enterprise IT needs including backup, restore, observability, and deployment automation.
  • Skills
  • Clear and confident communicator with the ability to influence at all levels.
  • Technically fluent and able to collaborate effectively with engineers, architects, and product teams.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building alignment across functions.
  • Strong balance of strategic thinking and operational execution.
  • Experience using metrics and analytics to inform prioritization and measure success.
  • Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Join us at Aerospike and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management. Salary Range for California Based Applicants: [$300,000 - $335,000] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
  • To keep our recruitment pipeline as high-performance as our database, Aerospike uses AI-driven tools to streamline resume reviews, scheduling, and communication. While we love smart tech, we value human connection even more. AI helps us optimize the process, but real people make 100% of the actual hiring decisions.
  • Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI. Aerospike powers millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, at a fraction of the total cost of ownership compared to other databases.
  • Global leaders, including Adobe, Airtel, Barclays, Criteo, DBS Bank, Experian, Grab, HDFC Bank, PayPal, Sony Interactive Entertainment, The Trade Desk, and Wayfair, rely on Aerospike for customer 360, fraud detection, real-time bidding, profile stores, recommendation engines, and other use cases.
  • At Aerospike, we dream big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the world’s real-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability .

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