VP Product, Core Products
Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical workloads. We power millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, all while keeping total cost of ownership lower than competing solutions. At Aerospike, we dream big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the world’s real-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability. If you're ready to shape the future of data, join us. We are hiring a product leader to oversee the strategy, execution, and overall success of our Database product family. This includes Aerospike Database, Backup & Recovery, Connectors, Observability, and Aerospike Kubernetes Operator. The role also includes ownership of the Aerospike Database component of our fully-managed cloud products. This is a senior-level, cross-functional leadership position requiring a unique blend of deep distributed systems and cloud-native operational rigor, with a focus on delivering results quickly. It is responsible for the full product lifecycle and plays a key role in shaping Aerospike’s roadmap, customer experience, and market success. Key Responsibilities Product Leadership and Strategy Develop and drive the multi-year technical roadmap, investment strategy, and lifecycle execution for Aerospike’s core distributed database and its supporting ecosystem. Translate platform goals into an integrated roadmap covering multiple product areas. Make thoughtful investment decisions across net-new innovation, elastic platform scalability, multi-tenant cloud economics, and absolute operational reliability. Conduct regular market and competitive analysis to identify trends and inform strategy. Collaborate with engineering, field, marketing, customer success, and design teams to deliver aligned and effective outcomes. Maintain a clear understanding of user needs and advocate for user experience improvements throughout the product lifecycle. Portfolio Management Maintain a portfolio-level view across all related products, ensuring clarity of ownership and coordination. Prioritize initiatives and themes based on customer needs, technical constraints, and business impact. Use product data, telemetry, and customer feedback to inform roadmap and success measures. Support long-term planning and roadmap development across multiple time horizons. Customer Engagement and Advocacy Act as an executive sponsor and senior point of contact for key customers. Build a deep understanding of enterprise use cases, particularly hybrid and cloud-native deployments. Represent the developer and database operator perspectives in product decisions and core engineering cycles, driving friction-free deployment automation and world class observability into the platform. Execution and Delivery Lead and mentor a team of product managers across the portfolio. Define and track key performance indicators such as adoption, satisfaction, and business value. Ensure ongoing measurement of p...