About The Role
Are you an experienced product manager interested in accelerating growth for a market-leading enterprise SaaS company? Do you dream about building a platform that operates at Internet-scale for hundreds of cutting edge companies, and driving better outcomes for enterprises and network operators alike using ML/AI-based approaches?Kentik, a San Francisco-based network observability leader, is seeking a high-energy, dynamic Senior Product Manager to complement our team. Our ideal candidate is an extraordinary cross functional leader, yet very hands-on, and has demonstrated experience in using ML/AI-based techniques in Enterprise software products.Given the importance of the position, the successful candidate will directly report to the CPO and work closely with the co-founder and CEO, to deliver a product strategy and oversee execution leveraging ML/AI to drive order of magnitude ROI improvements for customers and to further accelerate Kentik’s amazing growth.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a differentiated ML/AI-grounded product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Kentik products, in partnership with the CPO and CEO (co-founder)
- Operationalize the delivery of the vision & strategy through roadmaps, feature definition, releases, and go-to-market plans, with an emphasis on compressed timelines and rapid time to market
- Be the ML/AI product evangelist with customers, prospects, analysts, partners, and employees
- Work closely with Engineering to plan and build ML/AI into the Kentik platform and products
- Act as a leader within the company and be a role model for the company culture
About You
- An enthusiastic, clear communicator
- Fully engaged, with a bias toward action
- Track record balancing the conceptualization of strategic initiatives with fast and iterative execution
- Love working with customers to listen, learn, and teach
- Have a preference for seeking and solving the hardest, most meaningful problems
- Consistently creative
- Have strong curiosity across marketing, technology, and other disciplines
- Not afraid to challenge the status status quo or executive leadership when needed
- Persistently advocate for opinions and beliefs without being abrasive
Requirements
- Proven track record in product management for B2B enterprise SaaS companies
- Experience driving great user experiences that solve critical customer problems
- Experience with the full life cycle of Machine Learning development – creating and following statistical experiments, deduction and code actualization
- Experience with time series modeling, exponential smoothing, unsupervised learning algorithms (clustering, anomaly detection, etc)
- Strong foundation in networking, system, and distributed systems technologies
- Strongly preferred: Product experience with physical and logical network device telemetry, particularly around cloud infrastructure and cloud-native network stacks and approaches (policy, automation)
- Preferred: Experience with ARIMA & Prophet