Nutanix

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The Opportunity

The Nutanix Database Service (NDB) Product team is looking for a seasoned Product Management professional to join our team focused on bringing Hybrid and multi-cloud Database as a Service to the enterprise.

About the Team

Nutanix Database Service (NDB) is a heterogeneous database management platform that enables customers to create their own DBaaS (Database as a Service) offering. The product is expanding to a Hybrid Multi Cloud Solution with a scalable architecture. The NDB engineering team is distributed across Serbia, USA, and India. If the idea of starting small and building big excites you, you will be a good fit for this team. With NDB, you'll find no shortage of challenging problems to work on. We work closely across our team in a collaborative environment that encourages the open exploration of ideas. 

Product page: https://www.nutanix.com/uk/products/database-service

NDB architecture: https://www.nutanixbible.com/22-book-of-ndb.html

Your Role

• Assist and help define the NDB product roadmap;
• Work side by side with engineering and sales teams to capture customer needs and define product requirements;
• Collaborate with NDB PM team on DBaaS multi-cloud mobility strategy spanning on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid cloud scenarios;
• Evaluate new & emerging technologies in the database and database as a service ecosystem, such as Open Source and dev/ops database trends with Postgres, MongoDB, and Kubernetes while also understanding database life cycle management automation, database-centric monitoring solutions, upgrade and scale management strategies for database systems;
• Drive and influence industry groups, partners, and analyst groups by bringing customer advocacy & real-world proof points at the heart of all such discussions;
• Engage with customers in the Nutanix field and partners.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. MBA preferred;
• 12+ overall industry experience and at least 5+ years of product management experience or equivalent experience with SaaS/Cloud applications and/or DBaaS solutions (preferred);
• Demonstrated ability in navigating through industry groups, and partners, articulating customer points of view to champion best of breed solutions around Databases;
• Leadership DNA with high energy, proven ability to excite, influence, and lead cross-functional field-facing teams without formal authority;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the field, customers, and internal stakeholders including senior executives;
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
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