Director of Product Management - Data Streaming

Required Experience & Track Record

• 8–15 years total work experience, with significant portion in product management or consulting
• Track record with established enterprise infrastructure products at a meaningful stage of maturity — products with real revenue, demanding enterprise customers, and significant growth still ahead. You’ve navigated the tension between meeting current customer commitments and making the architectural investments required to unlock the next phase of adoption
• Data-driven product development: demonstrated success using quantitative and qualitative methods to drive product decisions
• Budget and resource management: experience allocating resources across teams and managing to budget
• Message-oriented middleware and event-driven architectures: deep familiarity as PM or practitioner with MQTT and/or platforms like Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ, or similar distributed messaging and streaming technologies — you understand throughput, latency, ordering guarantees, QoS tradeoffs, and the design decisions that differentiate these platforms in practice
• OT/IT convergence: meaningful experience with operational technology environments — PLC communication, OPC-UA, Modbus, SCADA, MES — either through product management, systems integration, solution engineering, or hands-on work in industrial settings; you have credibility talking to plant engineers and IT architects in the same conversation
• Smart manufacturing / Industry 4.0: understanding of how manufacturers instrument facilities, manage device fleets, and move operational data from edge to cloud; direct experience with Tier 1 industrial companies in automotive, pharma, energy, or discrete manufacturing is a strong plus
• IoT, robotics, or adjacent industrial domains: broader device connectivity experience — even if not pure OT — that translates to credibility in industrial contexts; robotics, connected vehicle, energy systems, or industrial IoT all count
• Self-managed enterprise software: experience with products that deploy on-premises or at the edge, including LTS release cycles, version management, upgrade path design, and enterprise procurement realities
• 4+ years of people management experience, including leading distributed teams across geographies and time zones
• PLG for infrastructure or developer products: track record with product-led growth motions for technical products — trial flows, licensing enforcement, activation metrics, conversion funnel design
• Distributed systems: genuine appreciation for reliability, scalability, clustering, and operational observability at scale — not just as features but as customer outcomes
• Strategic thinking: ability to set vision, define strategy, and execute across multiple product lines
• Influence without authority: proven ability to drive alignment across senior stakeholders through data and compelling narratives
• Effective communication: creates clear executive-level communications; teams and stakeholders understand priorities and how work connects to company mission
• Decision-making under uncertainty: comfortable making and defending tough calls, saying “no” thoughtfully, and adjusting course based on data
• Empathetic leadership: delivers challenging feedback and news with honesty, empathy, and understanding
• Cultural steward: demonstrates and champions product management best practices and company values
• Product instrumentation: ensures products are measured effectively to monitor impact and progress toward goals
• Outcome-focused mindset: cares about achieving business goals, not just shipping features
• Risk identification: thinks ahead to identify risks and mitigation strategies
• Process design: identifies inefficiencies and proposes scalable solutions as business grows
• Stakeholder management: builds and maintains relationships across R&D, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Support, and executive teams