Senior Product Manager - Cloudera Manager

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world's largest enterprises. Cloudera is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Cloudera Manager product. This role owns the product strategy and roadmap for one of the key lifecycle management tools serving the largest global enterprises across all industries including finance, manufacturing, tech and federal. Cloudera Manager is responsible for the lifecycle of mission critical clusters with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. In this role, you will lead and execute on a strategy to ensure Cloudera Manager provides enterprise capabilities with the ease of data SaaS products from on-premises to cloud. You will partner closely with Engineering, PMO, Product Marketing, and Field organizations to deliver a market-leading experience in hybrid cloud. Individual compensation within the published range is determined by the candidate's skills, experience, qualifications, and primary work location. In addition to base pay, sales roles are eligible for Cloudera's commission plan, while non-sales roles are eligible for the corporate incentive plan. This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Drive Intelligent Product Experiences: Shift the product strategy from infinite customization to a simplified user experience that provides optimal settings no matter the cluster configuration and active guardrails to eliminate operational fragility to prevent self-inflicted outages, incorporating configuration recommendations, actionable health alerts, and actionable service warnings using AI trained on Cloudera's knowledge base and real-time observability telemetry; Simplify Accessibility for IT Generalists: Design intuitive workflows and self-guided administrative tools tailored for IT generalists with minimal big data expertise; Execute Hybrid Architecture Modernization: Lead the long-term evolution of Cloudera Manager into an orchestrator of clusters across multiple clouds allowing customers to deploy use cases in a hybrid cloud topology; Achieve Uninterrupted Core Operations at Scale: Optimize fundamental cluster lifecycle operations to manage environments up to 10,000 nodes, ensuring refresh and maintenance operations on 1,000+ node clusters execute within customer approved SLAs; Define Predictable Lifecycle & API Guarantees: Establish and enforce structured release lifecycle policies that guarantee public API stability and backward compatibility; Track Operational Success Metrics: Monitor and continuously improve key performance indicators, focusing on increasing operational velocity, boosting prescriptive feature adoption rates, and reducing support escalation volumes

Requirements

5+ years of experience in the enterprise software space with at least 2 years of Product Management experience; Strong foundational understanding of open datalakes, data movement, enterprise data governance, and big data architecture; Basic technical understanding of virtualization, data center networking, and Linux based Operating Systems architecture; Basic technical understanding of VM-based public cloud deployments (IaaS/PaaS), object storage architectures (S3, ADLS, GCS), and network architectures for at least one major hyperscaler (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform); Demonstrated success in transforming complex, developer-centric platforms into intuitive, "opinionated" products with active guardrails that eliminate manual operational friction

Nice to have

CSP Partner Ecosystem Experience: Direct experience working with or within major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), including partner co-development, cloud marketplace programs, or cloud-native integrations; Competitive Landscape Awareness: Strong knowledge of modern cloud data platforms and competitive solutions, such as Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery/Bigtable, Amazon EMR/Redshift, or Azure Synapse; Modern Data Lakehouse Formats: Familiarity with open table formats (e.g., Apache Iceberg) and multi-cloud data architecture strategies; Data Platform Administrative Experience: Strong background with managing enterprise platforms or supporting customers running enterprise scale deployments with over 100 Terabytes of data

Benefits

Generous PTO Policy; Unplugged Days; Flexible WFH Policy; Mental & Physical Wellness programs; Phone and Internet Reimbursement program; Access to Continued Career Development; Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages; Paid Volunteer Time; Employee Resource Groups