Product Manager – ValueOps Financial Intelligence Solution

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**Please Note:** **1. If you are a first time user, please create your candidate login account before you apply for a job.** **2. If you already have a Candidate Account, please Sign-In before you apply.** ## **Job Description:** ## **Position Overview** **We are seeking an experienced** **Product Manager** to define and execute the product strategy for our **Unified Hybrid FinOps** platform. This strategic role will help shape the future of how enterprises manage cloud financial operations, engineering investments, and AI-driven decision making across hybrid cloud environments. **Working closely with Product Leadership, Engineering, AI Platform teams, Finance, Cloud Operations, and Customer Success, you will drive the convergence of** **Cloud FinOps, VCF Operations (VCFOps), Software Portfolio Management (SPM), DevOps, and Agentic AI** into a unified enterprise platform that delivers measurable business value. **This role will partner closely with Product leadership to define the long-term vision, roadmap, and go-to-market strategy while ensuring successful execution across globally distributed engineering teams.** ## **What You'll Do** ### **Define Product Strategy** - **Define and evolve the product vision and multi-year roadmap for the** **ValueOps Financial Intelligence** platform. - **Identify market opportunities that connect Cloud FinOps, AI, engineering productivity, and software portfolio management.** - **Translate customer needs, competitive insights, and business priorities into product strategy and execution plans.** - **Develop product positioning and value propositions for enterprise customers.** ### **Lead AI-Driven Product Innovation** **Drive AI-powered capabilities including:** - **Intelligent cloud cost optimization** - **AI-powered budgeting and forecasting** - **Capacity planning recommendations** - **Investment prioritization** - **Tokenomics and consumption analytics** - **Engineering productivity insights** - **Executive decision support** - **Autonomous FinOps recommendations** - **AI copilots and Agentic AI experiences** **Partner with AI engineering teams to define capabilities leveraging LLMs, AI Agents, MCP, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and enterprise knowledge platforms.** ### **Drive Unified Hybrid FinOps** **Own product capabilities across:** - **Public Cloud FinOps** - **Private Cloud Financial Management** - **VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (VCFOps)** - **Hybrid Cloud Cost Management** - **Kubernetes Cost Visibility** - **Showback / Chargeback** - **Cloud Resource Optimization** - **Budget Planning** - **Forecasting** - **Consumption Analytics** - **Executive Dashboards** - **Business Value Reporting** ### **Partner Across ValueOps** **Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Customer Success to connect strategy with execution through:** - **Software Portfolio Management (SPM)** - **Strategic Investment Planning** - **Agile Planning** - **Value Stream Management** - **Engineering Analytics** - **Capacity Planning** - **Financial Portfolio Management** - **Business Outcome Tracking** ### **Execute Product Delivery** - **Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation through general availability.** - **Prioritize product investments based on customer value, engineering capacity, and business impact.** - **Define product requirements, epics, user stories, and success metrics.** - **Partner closely with Engineering to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.** - **Work with Product Marketing and Sales Enablement to support successful product launches.** ## **Required Qualifications** - **8+ years of Product Management experience within enterprise software or SaaS.** - **Experience building cloud-native enterprise platforms.** - **Strong understanding of cloud technologies, software development, and Agile methodologies.** - **Proven ability to translate customer requirements into successful products.** - **Experience collaborating with Engineering, UX, Product Marketing, and Customer Success organizations.** - **Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.** - **Strong analytical and strategic thinking abilities.** ## **Preferred Qualifications** **Experience in several of the following areas:** - **Cloud FinOps** - **VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)** - **Hybrid Cloud Management** - **Public Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)** - **Kubernetes** - **Software Portfolio Management (SPM)** - **Agile Planning** - **DevOps** - **Platform Engineering** - **Engineering Productivity** - **AI-powered enterprise applications** - **Generative AI** - **Agentic AI** - **LLMs, MCP, Prompt Engineering, and RAG** - **Executive analytics and reporting** **Experience with enterprise platforms such as Clarity, Rally, Jira, ServiceNow, VMware Aria, or similar enterprise management solutions is highly desirable.** ## **Leadership Competencies** - **Customer-obsessed with strong product intuition.** - **Strategic thinker with deep business and technical acumen.** - **Passion for AI-driven innovation and enterprise transformation.** - **Data-driven decision maker capable of balancing customer needs with business priorities.** - **Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills.** - **Comfortable influencing executive leaders and engineering organizations without direct authority.** - **Excellent communicator capable of simplifying complex technical concepts into compelling customer value.** ## **Success Measures** **Within the first 12 months, this leader will:** - **Define and launch the Unified Hybrid FinOps product strategy and roadmap.** - **Deliver AI-powered capabilities that improve cloud financial management and engineering decision making.** - **Increase customer adoption of Hybrid FinOps and VCFOps capabilities.** - **Improve alignment between cloud investments, engineering execution, and business outcomes.** - **Establish measurable product KPIs for customer adoption, usag