Principal Product Manager, Java Intelligence

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of designated areas within Azul Intelligence Cloud, Azul Optimizer Hub, and Payara InSight in collaboration with fellow product managers.

• Manage strategy, roadmap, pricing, market positioning, and business outcomes for the assigned product areas.

• Establish multi-year product direction, target segments, decisions on building versus partnering, and product composition.

• Report to the VP of Product Management and collaborate directly with the CPO, CEO, CRO, and CTO.

• Present the strategy, roadmap, and pricing decisions to the leadership team and support them with data analysis.

• Convert strategy into sequenced roadmaps and clarify product trade-offs.

• Foster alignment across engineering, sales, and marketing teams.

• Effectively communicate roadmaps internally and to customers while managing project scope.

• Define pricing, packaging, and metering for Intelligence Cloud, Optimizer Hub, and Payara InSight.

• Collaborate with engineering during sprints, design reviews, and implementation decisions.

• Facilitate customer requirement sessions and oversee UX/UI initiatives.

• Guide the operator experience for installing, sizing, and managing Optimizer Hub on Kubernetes.

• Be responsible for customer-facing technical documentation and knowledge base content.

• Conduct product demonstrations and assess usability.

• Work alongside marketing on positioning, product launches, sales enablement, and public-facing content.

• Participate in customer and prospect calls, support sales efforts, manage escalations, and perform competitive and market research.

• Ensure product messaging resonates with developers, platform teams, and executive stakeholders.

• Define, measure, report, and enhance metrics such as sales, pipeline generation, pilot-to-production conversion, adoption, and retention.

• Lead with clarity, evidence, and influence as an individual contributor without direct reports.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in product management, with several years overseeing a product or product line from strategy to launch to revenue generation.

• Proven success in delivering enterprise SaaS in a related market: application performance monitoring, application security, observability, optimization, systems management, or log analytics.

• Proficiency with AI tools and experience operating within an AI-centric product management organization.

• Strong technical fluency, including the ability to read architecture diagrams and engage in engineering discussions.

• Proven experience in managing pricing and packaging for a technical product.

• Understanding the roles of DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and developers as key influencers in enterprise sales processes.

• In-depth knowledge of public cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Comfortable working in a fully remote, asynchronous, multi-time-zone environment.

• Self-motivated and an exceptional writer.

• Adaptable to a startup-shaped working environment.

• Hands-on experience in software or quality engineering (preferred).

• Experience engaging with open-source communities (preferred).

• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization strategies (preferred).

• Experience in transitioning a new product from early traction to a sustainable revenue stream (preferred).

• Working knowledge of Java and Java development tools (preferred).

• Familiarity with Jakarta EE application servers and OpenTelemetry (preferred).

• Experience managing multiple products simultaneously (preferred).

• Background in infrastructure software that customers deploy and manage themselves (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages.

• Referral Program.

• Work-life balance.

• Remote-first work arrangement.

• Paid time off.

• Company shutdown.

• Holidays.

• Medical coverage.

• Dental coverage.

• 401(k) plan.

• A wide range of paid time off options.

• Annual variable pay based on performance.