The Sr. Product Manager will develop product roadmaps for cloud technologies, manage storage protocols, oversee product integration, and facilitate billing systems, leveraging extensive data center experience.
Who We Are
Zadara is a leading provider of AI edge clouds, delivering a groundbreaking distributed cloud platform purpose-built for sovereign AI applications. Zadara platform powers advanced AI capabilities with the simplicity, agility, and flexibility of cloud computing while ensuring seamless multi-tenancy through fully automated, end-to-end provisioning of compute, storage, and networking resources. Zadara’s vision is to build and operate the largest global Edge Cloud Network to enable innovative technologies & services that improve the way the world communicates, works, heals, travels and plays. We have a global and diverse workforce that is growing as we expand our customer base. Together as a team we are making an impact on the Edge Cloud market.
Our Zadarian Culture
All Zadarians are finding their edge by living and breathing our core values; All Belonging, Accountable together, Exceptionally focused, Flexible, Trailbreaking, and Zealous.
We believe that good things happen to people and business in a culture of choice. Where diverse and individual needs, wants and wishes are respected and rewarded — where the possibilities are limitless. Here you can, breakout and breakthrough to do your best work.
What Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Mean to Us
We believe in the power of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Members of our distributed team come from different geographies and cultural backgrounds and we serve a diverse population. Our commitment to DEI helps us design better products and services, and serve our employees, customers, and partners. Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is critical to our vision and to our impact, and helps us boost our perspective, creativity, and growth.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage product roadmaps for cloud and infrastructure technologies, with a focus on “As-a-Service” models at the edge (including edge computing and storage solutions).
- Manage storage transport protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and HTTP/s.
- Oversee Object Storage product integration, including OpenStack Swift and AWS S3.
- Facilitate the integration of consumption-based billing systems.
- Set pricing strategies and define metrics for billing application adjustments, leveraging expert-level experience.
- Oversee the full lifecycle of data center infrastructure deployment—from procurement to determining the optimal bill of materials—while accounting for supply chain impacts.
- Apply extensive hands-on experience in data center operations and infrastructure components.
- Act as a proxy between engineering and the OpenStack developers’ team, providing expertise in Object Storage, NAS, SAN, backup, and Disaster Recovery (DR) systems (Swift, Cinder, and Manila projects).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Business, or a related field (or foreign degree equivalent).
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in Product Management roles within the enterprise cloud storage industry.
- Proven experience with:
- Cloud and infrastructure technologies, and Product Management of “As-a-Service” products at the edge.
- Storage protocols and products, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and Object Storage (OpenStack Swift, AWS S3).
- Consumption-based billing systems and development of pricing strategies.
- Data center operations and infrastructure components, including full lifecycle deployment and supply chain management.
- Object Storage solutions, NAS, SAN, backup, and Disaster Recovery (DR) systems.
- Working with OpenStack projects such as Swift, Cinder, and Manila.
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Top Skills
Aws S3
Cloud Computing
Data Center Infrastructure
Edge Computing
Fibre Channel
Iscsi
Nfs
Object Storage
Openstack
Smb
Zadara Irvine, California, USA Office
9245 Research Dr, Irvine, California, United States, 92618
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