Product Manager, Self-Hosted

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 holistic Product Manager who will focus on Hydrolix’s self-deployed offerings, collaborate with Engineering to create a user-impacting roadmap, and work closely with Marketing and Sales to tell compelling customer narratives. This is a highly hands-on role requiring direct involvement in day-to-day work across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities

• User interviews and engagement:
  • 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.
  • Devise ways to get feedback from users on existing and upcoming features.
  • Listen carefully to identify user pain points over explicit feature requests.
  • Understand what users are doing in their day-to-day work and how Hydrolix fits in.
  • Build relationships with Hydrolix SRE and CSE teams to surface common pain points and usecases.
• Engineering Enablement:
  • Write product requirement documents that help Engineering understand what users are trying to accomplish at their jobs.
  • Help Engineering prioritize work based on the user impact.
  • Embed with Engineering teams and pair with Engineering Managers to keep up-to-date on release dates, roadblocks, etc.
• Marketing Enablement:
  • Work closely with Marketing to align user narratives for different personas.
  • Connect regularly with Marketing to align expectations around roadmap and marketing campaigns related to releases/features.
  • Create content (blog posts, videos, webinars, etc) to drive engagement and support Marketing efforts.
• Sales Enablement:
  • Connect regularly with Sales to align expectations around roadmap and educate on user narratives/benefits of upcoming features.
  • Create decks, demos, and other content to enable Sales to tell compelling user stories.
  • Collaborate with Sales to attend customer calls and to gather feedback on Hydrolix.
• Track relevant metrics to assess user interaction with Hydrolix and user successes with Hydrolix and pivot accordingly.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum 2 - 4 years Product Management experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Experience using metrics to validate strategy.
• 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.