Solution Product Manager - Non-Relational Databases & Streaming

Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The team

Hitachi Vantara is looking for a self-driven Product Manager who will own and execute key outbound and inbound responsibilities for Unstructured Databases & Streaming Analytics. The role requires industry expertise in real-world scenarios of deploying Infrastructure Solutions for Data Lake and Data Lakehouse using Unstructured Databases, Streaming, and data processing with accelerated computing. Besides the above, to successfully execute in this role, you'll need to have exposure to the various aspects of Infrastructure Solutions, namely, Compute, Storage, Networking, Applications Stack, Operating Systems, Kubernetes/Containers, Virtualization and Consulting/Services/Support.

The role

• Partner with Engineering to develop and enhance solutions and launch them on a regular basis.
• Identify market opportunities, define solution vision and strategy.
• Engage with prospects and customers to discover underlying business drivers, identify challenges, devise solutions and demonstrate capabilities.
• Develop business-cases using ROI projections and analysis to determine the business value, define release goals and prioritize features.
• Monitor relevant emerging industry trends and technologies and develop a keen understanding of the corresponding on-premise and cloud competitive landscape.
• Evangelize and drive adoption of solutions into multiple market segments leveraging various communication channels such as presentations, speak at industry forums, whitepapers, blogs, webinars, live demonstrations, etc.
• Work with sales and partners, be advocate of our solutions, and build a strong ecosystem for us.

What you'll bring

• Master's degree in Business, Computer Science, Data Science or Management Information Systems
• Demonstrable experience in Product Management. Additional experience in Engineering and Technology Strategy role is a plus.
• Deep understanding and knowledge of Data Lake, Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, data processing with accelerated computing, Unstructured Databases, and Streaming.
• Specifically, technical expertise in the following: Hadoop, Spark, Arrow, MongoDB, Cloudera, Splunk, Kafka, Flink, and application environments utilizing this software.
• Knowledge and experience in converged stack (compute, network, storage) and GPU solutions; with emphasis from an end-customer deployment, selling and licensing perspective.
• An entrepreneurial mindset with ability to work independently to deliver results.
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; experience using financial data, usage metrics, ROI, etc. to drive decision-making.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience engaging and influencing cross functional teams.
• This position is based in Santa Clara. 10% domestic and international travel may be required.

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