Senior Product Manager, Innovation Lab

Job Description

Hydrolix is the data software platform providing data services to your cloud, observability, or analytics platform. Hydrolix is powering the industry’s fastest growing observability and security products, and transforming the economics of managing high cardinality, high dimensionality log data. We are looking for a disciplined Senior Product Manager to focus on Hydrolix’s innovative explorations into new product offerings, collaborating closely and coordinating with Hydrolix’s Innovation Lab team, and working closely with Marketing and Sales to communicate successful experiments and tell compelling customer narratives. This is a research heavy role, involving hypothesis development, outcome validation, and a lot of day-to-day coordination with the Innovation Eng team, as well as relationship building across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Prioritize, validate, and assess innovation projects
  • Keep up with general industry trends, talking points, and innovations to help guide prioritization decisions.
  • Weigh potential benefits and drawbacks of different proposed projects in the absence of concrete customer feedback.
  • Develop acceptance criteria that helps clarify what is being tested, identify what success looks like, and then validate that the project drives the product forward for our target customer base.
  • Track relevant metrics to assess user interaction with Hydrolix and user successes with Hydrolix and pivot accordingly.
• Relationship building and research
  • Understand what users are doing in their day-to-day work and how Hydrolix fits in.
  • Ride along with Sales to gain an understanding of customer needs and wants, and surface that information in writing and verbally to Product and Engineering teams.
  • Develop relationships with internal teams running Hydrolix to understand common patterns and pain points.
• External Communication
  • Work closely with Marketing to create aligned content targeting different personas.
  • Participate in industry conversations (conferences, webinars, podcasts, etc) and enable others on your teams to do so as well.
  • Present higher level findings at strategic points throughout the year.
• Enablement:
  • Connect regularly with Sales to align expectations around user narratives/user pain and common topics and tools in Sales conversations.
  • Create decks, demos, and other content to enable internal Hydrolix teams to understand emerging user stories validated by data.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum 4 years Product Management experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proven research skills and experience using metrics to validate strategy.
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Experience finding patterns of problems or pain points users experience in a larger context of a product or service.
• Experience working with or adjacent to at least one of the following: databases, data storage, data lakes, cloud platforms, observability solutions, or security solutions.

Bonus Qualifications

• Have worked in B2B technology company
• Worked in/at/with a database company; or familiar with SQL

To apply, please send your resume and 2 samples of your work (blog post announcements, talks, etc) to careers@hydrolix.io.