Principal Product Manager

We are a passionate and open-minded group of software enthusiasts, and together, we are global market leader in software intelligence. By providing actionable data on how applications are performing in real-time—for example, crash reporting, server-side tracking, root-cause analysis to name a few—our full-stack monitoring platform helps our customers anticipate and resolve their software issues. We have made it our mission to ensure that millions of people worldwide have an excellent user experience, made possible through a unique combination of observability, automation, and AI—all compacted into one cloud-based software intelligence platform.
The Core Platform is the heart of Dynatrace and serves multiple product purposes such as storing and analyzing observability data as well as frameworks that are used to build the different Dynatrace modules. The entire product is built on the Platform and relies on it. Hyperscale, lightning performance and delivery are key to the aspect you will deliver.
You can shape how and by which components the Core Platform can be extended. At the end of the day, every Dynatrace user should have the opportunity to build an extension according to their individual ideas and following the specifications that you have defined.

The Core Platform is divided into 6 areas called “Capabilities” and each of these areas consist of key components like Grail, AppEngine and Unified Ingest and more: https://www.dynatrace.com/platform/.

In your future role:

• You will drive new innovative core product capabilities, with hyperscale and high-performance in mind as domain lead for Unified Ingest together with the respective product managers.
• Establish capability communication channels and decision-making paths and make decisions transparent for a growing organization.
• Collaborate with the capability leadership team to drive the capabilities product responsibilities, act as main contact for other capabilities and leadership teams.
• Together with your capability leadership team and the product managers you define the capability product roadmap and our near-term and long-term product strategy.
• Make sure that the priorities and workstreams of your capability are aligned with the core platform and outside the core platform.
• Together with the capability and solution leadership team you need to balance the right investment for product/maintenance and innovation.
• Work with the core platform leadership team to fulfill the company goals and strategy and to align on staffing & resource planning.
• Working together with key stakeholder to get their feedback to identify the pain and opportunities for additional customer and business value**.**
• Acting as a companywide accepted expert that drives knowledge not only into the organization but also to the customers.
• Leading the capability via a transparent backlog and communicating the roadmap and its state to the different stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience, with prior success in setting product strategy and executing it based on research, data, and industry trends.
• Technical Product management experience in a B2B environment, with prior success in setting product (back-up) strategy and executing it based on research, data, and industry trends as well as scaling and optimizing
• Good technical understanding, worked as a developer before, would be an advantage.
• Experience with cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), SaaS, shared infrastructure, mass storage databases, and Web apps
• Knowledge in privacy, scaling, and access control topics
• Leadership experience as either domain lead or people manager is required
• Proficiency in presenting to a big spectrum of diverse stakeholders such as exec leadership, customers and non R&D teams and be able to deliver the key messages to the different audiences.
• Being able to motivate technical people like developers, architects and product managers will make you successful
• An entrepreneurial mindset to understand the business goals and needs and you are able to translate product strategy into business impact.
• Thinking big, but at the same time break things down into smaller components, and build high-level roadmaps from that
• Clear sense of ownership and accountability, strong communication skills towards team, peers, and stakeholders alike, as well as a bias for action
• Willingness to travel ([ 15%)