Senior Product Manager of Resource Management and Ingestion

Cloudera delivers the world’s fastest, easiest, and most secure platform for data management and analytics, built on Apache Hadoop and latest open source technologies.

Cloudera is looking for a product manager to lead our core resource management and ingestion teams. Cloudera’s enterprise data hub strategy (EDH) is a unified platform that can execute the entire spectrum of analytic data workflows to enable organizations to more easily, quickly, and securely leverage their organization's data assets. Central to our EDH strategy are the abilities to: - Reliably and scalably ingest massive data volumes from all relevant sources into the unified EDH (via technologies including Flume, Kafka, and Sqoop) - Manage shared cluster resources across the many tenants and the multiple application frameworks necessary for knowledge workers to process, analyze, and serve their data from this unified platform (via YARN) As the product manager you will be involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle from development through marketing, business development partnerships, pre- and post sales. The ideal person for this position will be an experienced product manager with both strong technical capabilities in resource management and ingestion technologies. The candidate must be motivated, take initiative, be a team player, and be able to scale with a fast-growing engineering team.

* Product design: functional analysis that identifies the best options for compelling, easy to use software * Engineering engagement: close partnership with engineering to understand technical trade-offs and architecture in order to successfully influence product design * Developing product & market strategy: researching market segments, assessing competitive differentiation, creating decision frameworks, formulating hypotheses & advocating direction * Prioritization: relentless prioritization across several competing objectives to make the optimal use of time and resources * Customer research: in person and virtual interviews to understand users, priorities and design considerations * Launch & promotion: prepare conference presentations, train partners and support sales opportunities. * Organizational leadership: work with customers, support, and engineering teams to handle and resolve any critical customer issues that arise with our product

* Technical acumen - Computer Science degree and product management experience at an engineering company required. Product and/or engineering experience in resource management, workload management, and distributed ingestion technologies a plus * High energy – keeps a fast pace and encourages others to keep up with them * Business judgment – someone who is constantly able to assess the top priorities for the product and for their own time * Persistence – can visualize what a win looks like and won’t accept less than that * Structured thinking – organizes questions, issues & ideas into logically consistent frameworks that quickly generate defensible conclusions from limited amounts of data * Attention to detail – keep focus on a bug or design issue until everyone’s satisfied they’ve found the optimal solution * Maturity & presence – can earn respect in an executive audience that may include customers, Cloudera employees or Cloudera investors