Principal Product Manager
About the Job
Sumo Logic is looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager to spearhead our log analytics initiatives, focusing on ingestion, querying, and user experience (UX). In this position, you will collaborate closely with engineering, data science, sales, and marketing teams to establish and implement a strategic vision that elevates our log analytics platform, equipping our customers with robust tools for gaining insights and driving informed actions.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our logs ingest and query capabilities, ensuring they are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with customer needs and industry standards.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and develop a deep understanding of customer use cases, ensuring that our logs experience delivers significant value.
- Leading the design and implementation of user-centric log query features that enable customers to easily access, analyze and visualize log data for improved decision-making.
- Conducting market research and competitive analysis to identify trends and opportunities in log management, using insights to inform product development and positioning.
- Establishing and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of logs ingest and query features, leveraging data to drive continuous improvement.
- Engaging with key customers and stakeholders to solicit feedback and validate product concepts, ensuring alignment with market needs and user expectations.
- Participating in go-to-market strategies by collaborating with product marketing and sales teams to effectively communicate the value of our log management capabilities.
- Developing sales enablement materials, including whitepapers, blogs, presentations, and product demos to showcase our logs ingest and query features, helping customers understand their value.
- Capturing market and competitive intelligence to inform the platform direction and ensure our log management capabilities remain competitive and relevant.
What You Bring:
- 8+ years of experience in product management, with a strong focus on log ingestion, query capabilities, or log management platforms.
- Proven expertise in log analytics within observability and security, with a strong understanding of best practices for log data ingestion, processing, and querying.
- Experience working directly with technical engineering teams and in a matrixed Product Management team environment.
- An ability to navigate complex decision-making and effectively communicate across teams will be critical to success.
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively with both, technical and business leaders
- Understanding and ability to define technical specifications, write high-level documents, and interpret observability, security and compliance requirements into concrete product requirements
- Experience with user experience (UX) design principles and methodologies, with a proven track record of delivering intuitive and engaging user interfaces for log management tools.
- Strong analytical skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making to inform product strategy, prioritization, and the measurement of feature effectiveness and user experiences.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a proven ability to engage effectively with customers and cross-functional teams.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; an MBA is a plus.
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc. empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Analytics Log Platform, which helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
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What We Do
Sumo Logic is the pioneer in continuous intelligence, a new category of software, which enables organizations of all sizes to address the data challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, modern applications, and cloud computing. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ automates the collection, ingestion, and analysis of application, infrastructure, security, and IoT data to derive actionable insights within seconds. More than 2,100 customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic to build, run, and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. Sumo Logic delivers its platform as a true, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, across multiple use-cases, enabling businesses to thrive in the Intelligence Economy.
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