Company Overview
Veeam is the global market leader in data resilience, empowering businesses to control their data wherever it resides. Veeam provides comprehensive data resilience solutions including backup, recovery, portability, security, and intelligence. With over 550,000 customers worldwide, Veeam is trusted to keep businesses running.
Role Description
The Veeam Kasten team is seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive its Cloud-Native initiatives. This role is at the forefront of technical innovation in Kubernetes data protection, working closely with a world-class development team, customers, and alliance partners. You will be responsible for defining, prioritizing, and executing end-to-end product development, including leading new product initiatives. This position reports directly to the VP of Product and Partnerships for Kasten.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a global development team and community members on complex problems and sprint planning.
- Launch and scale product initiatives, including Kubernetes data protection for modern virtualization environments.
- Provide subject matter expertise for product launches and content development.
- Engage with customers and sales teams to understand product usage, identify growth opportunities, and refine the product roadmap.
- Position Kasten as the market leader using internal and external resources.
- Develop and execute joint programs with partners to drive new customer acquisition and bookings.
- Define and measure success metrics for product areas.
- Evangelize Kasten at key industry events.
- Enable tighter integration with ecosystem partners.
Required Qualifications
- Deep technical understanding and hands-on experience with cloud and container technologies such as Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, AWS, and Azure.
- Technical background, ideally with experience as a partner or field solutions architect, DevOps engineer, sales engineer, or technical marketing engineer.
- Proven track record of successfully bringing new products and capabilities to market.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with enterprise customers, business and technical teams, and senior leadership.
- Ability to be hands-on in building and showcasing product demonstrations.
- Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple programs and initiatives simultaneously.
- Team player with a proactive approach, capable of building consensus and driving execution across the organization.
- Willingness to travel internationally for conferences, customer meetings, and internal events.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the data protection industry, including exposure to Storage and Database ecosystems, particularly related to protection APIs.
- Experience and familiarity with VMware vSphere technology and working with VMware system and backup administrators.
What We Offer
- Private Medical Plan for employees and their families.
- Life and Disability Insurance.
- PPK Pension plan.
- 26 days of Annual Leave.
- VeeaMe Days – Company Days off.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Business Travel Insurance.
- Veeam Care Days for volunteering activities.
- Extensive professional training and education, including courses, workshops, internal meetups, and unlimited access to online learning platforms (Percipio, Athena, O’Reilly).
- Mentoring through our MentorLab program.
Note: Remote work is only possible for employees located within Poland. Veeam reserves the right to not consider applications from individuals permanently residing outside of Poland.
