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Job Description Summary:
The Senior Director of Product Management will lead the product management team for Vertica, drawing on extensive experience, best practices, and a deep understanding of the market. They will be responsible for leading and owning the overall product vision roadmap and leading the individuals on their team to drive the roadmaps for each area. The ideal candidate brings significant experience in enterprise data and analytics platforms, including modern data warehouse and lakehouse architectures, analytical databases, cloud-native data platforms, and AI-driven analytics solutions.
Within the business unit, the role of product management will include identifying market opportunities, creating roadmaps, prioritizing features, validating engineering timelines and driving commercial success. In addition, this leader will define and institutionalize a modern product operating model that leverages design-led product management practices, customer discovery, user-centered design, product analytics, outcome-based prioritization, and continuous validation of customer and market needs. Establishing this role, both as a key component of Rocket leadership as well as a functional competency within the business unit, requires a seasoned professional with years of experience product managing technology solutions geared at the enterprise market.
To be successful in this role, this person will operate cross-functionally, engaging actively with their engineering counterparts as well as marketing, sales, GTM strategy, and customer success leadership. Building alignment around the business unit’s product direction throughout the company will be critical to driving growth in revenue, customer satisfaction, and market position. The Senior Director will partner closely with UX, architecture, engineering, and customer-facing teams to ensure product investments are informed by deep customer understanding, validated user workflows, and measurable business outcomes. They will also act as a public face of the business unit to analysts, customers, and partners, communicating the benefits of the solutions, the roadmap, and Rocket’s core values outside the organization. This individual will be expected to represent Rocket Software and Vertica as a thought leader in the data analytics, lakehouse, and data platform market, helping shape conversations around modern data architectures, performance, governance, and AI-enabled analytics.
The successful candidate combines strategic vision with operational excellence, demonstrating expertise in product operations, portfolio planning, customer-centric innovation, and data-informed decision making. They have a proven track record of leading teams through complex platform transformations, balancing near-term market opportunities with long-term architectural investments, and delivering measurable business outcomes in highly competitive enterprise software markets. As a leader, they develop high-performing teams, foster a culture of customer obsession and continuous learning, and inspire organizations to execute against ambitious product strategies.
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Annual salary range for this position is between $191,000.00 - $267,400.00 gross before taxes..What Rocket Software can offer you in USA:
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