Vice President of Product Management, Data Platform

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At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry.  Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

Cloudera is seeking a transformative Vice President of Product Management to lead the Data Platform business unit, focusing on Hybrid and business built on Hadoop. This executive will own the mission-critical foundation of Cloudera’s value proposition: the ability to run data workloads anywhere with a consistent experience.

Reporting to the Global Vice President and Head of Product, you will oversee the unified platform architecture that powers Cloudera’s entire portfolio including Cloudera SQL engines with Hive, Impala, Kudu, Operational DB with HBase, Data Engineering with Spark, and AI. Your scope includes CDP Public Cloud Data Hub, CDP Private Cloud Base, and Cloudera Observability, as well as the world-class data management systems (HDFS and Cloudera Object Store Ozone) that anchor the enterprise data estate.

As the VP of Product (Hybrid Platform) you will:

• Hybrid-First Strategy: Lead the "Hybrid" product vision for the data platform, ensuring customers can move data and workloads seamlessly between on-premises data centers and public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) without friction.

• Platform Orchestration: Drive the strategy for CDP Public Cloud Data Hub and CDP Private Cloud Base, providing a unified management plane for diverse enterprise workloads.

• Cross-Portfolio Leadership: Partner with the Global VP of Product and fellow product leaders to ensure the platform layer perfectly supports Cloudera’s SQL, Operational DB, and Data Engineering engines.

• Security & Governance Integration: Collaborate with the SDX (Shared Data Experience) team to ensure that security, metadata, and governance are "baked into" the platform layer, providing a consistent compliance posture across all environments.

• Observability & Intelligence: Scale Cloudera Observability into a market-leading toolset for FinOps, performance tuning, and predictive maintenance across the entire hybrid estate.

• Organizational Excellence: Lead a global organization of Product Directors and Managers, establishing a culture of high-velocity delivery, customer empathy, and technical rigor.

• Market Leadership: Act as a key executive voice with industry analysts and C-suite customers, articulating how Cloudera’s hybrid platform outpaces "cloud-only" or "on-prem-only" competitors.

• Next-Gen Storage Evolution: Oversee the strategic roadmap for Cloudera’s storage foundation, managing the lifecycle of HDFS while aggressively driving the adoption of Cloudera Object Store (Ozone) as the future of high-performance, exabyte-scale enterprise storage.

• As the VP of Product, you will establish and monitor a rigorous framework of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure the health of the business and the quality of the technology stack.

We are excited if you have (Required Experience):

• Bsc/Msc in related field or equivalent experience

• Executive Leadership: 15+ years in Product Management, with a proven track record of managing $100M+ product portfolios and leading global PM teams.

• Hybrid Cloud Expertise: Deep technical and business understanding of the trade-offs between Private Cloud and Public Cloud (IaaS/PaaS) environments.

• Systems Thinking: The ability to see the "big picture" of how storage, compute, and governance layers must interact to deliver a seamless user experience.

• Stakeholder Influence: Experience working within a complex, multi-functional product organization, successfully navigating competing priorities to achieve unified platform goals.

• Customer-Centricity: A history of partnering with Fortune 500 CIOs/CTOs to solve massive-scale data infrastructure challenges.

• Operational Excellence: Experience driving product-led growth (PLG) initiatives, cloud margin optimization, and disciplined roadmap execution.

You may also have:

• Data Platform Knowledge: Significant understanding of the Apache Software Foundation ecosystem (Big Data Platforms and data governance) and Data Platform ecosystem.

• Data Innovation: Specific experience in transitioning legacy file systems to modern, S3-compatible object storage architectures.

• Data Governance Fluency: A strong understanding of how the platform layer enables advanced data privacy and sovereignty requirements.

The expected base salary range for this role in

• California is $250-330k

The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What you can expect from us:

• Generous PTO Policy 

• Support work life balance with Unplugged Days

• Flexible WFH Policy 

• Mental & Physical Wellness programs 

• Phone and Internet Reimbursement program 

• Access to Continued Career Development 

• Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages 

• Paid Volunteer Time

• Employee Resource Groups

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