Sr. Product Manager, Application, Network and Cloud Infrastructure

Power of WERiverbed transforms data into actionable insights and accelerates performance so organizations can deliver a seamless digital experience and drive enterprise performance. Riverbed is the only company with the collective richness of telemetry from network to app to end user, that illuminates and then accelerates every digital interaction. Riverbed offers two industry-leading portfolios: Alluvio by Riverbed, a differentiated Unified Observability portfolio that unifies data, insights, and actions across IT, so customers can deliver seamless, secure digital experiences; and Riverbed Acceleration, providing fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere.Together with our thousands of partners, and market-leading customers globally - including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 - we empower every click, every digital experience.Position: Sr. Product Manager, Application, Network and Cloud InfrastructureLocation: Home Office, United StatesRiverbed enables organizations to maximize performance and visibility for networks and applications, so they can overcome complexity and fully capitalize on their digital and cloud investments. The Riverbed Network and Application Performance Platform enables organizations to visualize, optimize, remediate and accelerate the performance of any network for any application. The platform addresses performance and visibility holistically with best-in-class WAN optimization, network performance management (NPM), application acceleration (including Office 365, SaaS, client and cloud acceleration), and enterprise-grade SD-WAN. Riverbed's 30,000+ customers include 99% of the Fortune 100.What You Will DoFocus: You will be directly responsible for the growth, curation, and ongoing management of Riverbed's NetIM, Aternity APM and legacy infrastructure management products. This will require conversations with users, buyers, partners, and industry leaders to establish a data-driven market perspective to drive success of your products.Product Strategy: You will be responsible for developing the product strategy that will lead to product growth, adoption, and continued success for Riverbed NPM products. The specific focus of this role is on the convergence of infrastructure-related metrics across the traditionally distinct segments of applications, network infrastructure and cloud infrastructure.Research: You will follow technology trends, talk to customers, establish a plan, and execute on that plan using a data-driven approach. You'll incorporate user research and usability studies to identify key areas of improvement and coordinate with engineering to deliver those improvements.Measure Success: You will align with your cross-functional teams on the definition of success by defining, measuring, and tracking OKRs for every initiative. You'll also define business metrics that provide a short and long-term measure of health and success.Positioning: You will coordinate with the product marketing and marketing teams to create content that helps them position and sell Riverbed product to existing, new, and future customers.Market awareness: You will maintain a measured, clear view of key competitors and the broader landscape and use that knowledge to maintain the appropriate competitive differentiation with the product.Prioritization: You will lead your teams through scoping and planning exercises that hone in on the most valuable work for our customers that drives growth and revenue.Roadmaps: You will establish a clear 18 month rolling view of features and capabilities that solve customer problems and grow the acquisition, adoption and growth of the Riverbed NPM products for which you are responsible.Communication: You will communicate roadmaps, plans, and status of initiatives narrowly and broadly across the Riverbed business and externally to partners and customers.Remove Friction: You will identify opportunities to support the business by reducing friction the sales team encounters when positioning and selling our NPM products.What Makes You An Ideal Candidate8+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated success in product definition activities for a successful enterprise software vendor.Experience working in the Networking / Infrastructure / Cloud / Visibility space. A track record working with SaaS-delivered applications is a plus.Strong understanding of agile development methodologies and how to apply, use, and succeed within that and other development models.Technical experience with the SNMP protocol and agent-based telemetry tools is essential. The ideal candidate is already knowledgeable about the Riverbed NPM products.Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal skills to effectively interact and establish immediate credibility with the engineering team, executives, sales, and customers.Success with defining new products/features (ideally including SaaS software), from concept through introduction.BS Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, or a related field.Ability to clearly articulate the "what", "why", and "who" to focus requirement definition, design exploration, and engineering execution on the most important customer value.Proven ability to learn new technologies and product capabilities and then translate them into value propositions. When you fail, you learn. When you succeed, you teach others.Demonstrated ability to work close with others within and without your team to drive toward clear objectives and results.Proven ability to learn new technologies and product capabilities and then translate them into value propositions.Comfortable and passionate about technology with a strong record of execution.What We OfferOur employee benefits including flexible workplace policies, employee resource groups, learning and development resources, career progression pathways, and community engagement initiatives are some of the reasons why we have had great success in bringing in new talent. In addition, our global employee wellness programs are crafted to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of our employees. Benefits & Perks vary by Country.Why Join RiverbedWith a 20-year history of innovation, Riverbed is agile, yet proven, and we are disrupting the market with differentiated solutions that enable our customers to deliver secure, seamless digital experiences and accelerate enterprise performance. While we are a 'customer-first' company, we are all about our people with a shared commitment to creating a global impact. We bring our best selves to work and pursue excellence, trust, and respect for one another. We welcome diversity and value and encourage transparency and open communication throughout the company. We strive to be an inclusive, fair, and enjoyable workplace for our people globally and care about their wellbeing. We are committed to our people, partners, and customers while supporting the communities where we work and live. It's the Power of WE that binds us together.We want people of all backgrounds to see themselves represented and included in our work, so we actively seek to diversify our team and bring more voices to the table. We understand that when people can be themselves, more is possible. We would love to have more people on board to join us on our journey to be better every day! So, come speak with us about career possibilities at Riverbed.Riverbed is an equal employment opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or child birth (including breast feeding), sexual orientation, genetics, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other basis protected by and in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.Riverbed encourages all of its U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, but does not presently require its U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated unless such vaccination is required by applicable law or the duties of the specific position. If a specific position requires an employee to be fully vaccinated because of either applicable law or the duties of the position, then the offer of employment will be expressly conditioned on the individual being fully vaccinated for COVID-19 on or prior to their start date and providing proof of such vaccination unless the individual is legally exempt.Check us out on:www.riverbed.com@LifeAtRiverbedTags

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