[Hiring] Senior Director, Product Management @Azul

Role Description

The Senior Director, Product Management leads the product team for Azul Prime and is accountable for Prime’s growth. Prime is Azul’s high-performance JVM, and Optimizer Hub, the component that moves JIT compilation and warm-up off the JVMs and into a shared service running in the customer’s Kubernetes environment, is part of it. Prime wins when customers run Java at scale and care about latency, warm-up, and cloud cost.

You set Prime’s direction, run the product managers who work on it, and answer to the CPO, CEO, CRO, and SVP of Engineering for the results. This is a player-coach role. You manage a team, and you still own the decisions on strategy, pricing, and the hardest customer conversations.

What You'll Own

• Outcomes: You own whether Prime succeeds or fails in the market. New business, pipeline, pilot-to-production conversion, expansion, renewal, and retention on Prime are your numbers, not just the field’s.
• Strategy: Set the multi-year direction for Prime, including segments and workloads it wins, what to build versus partner for, and how it fits with other products.
• Executive partnership: Report to the CPO and work directly with the CEO, CRO, and CTO. Bring strategy, roadmap, and pricing decisions to the leadership team.
• Go-to-market: Build and run the Prime go-to-market motion with sales, marketing, and customer success.
• Roadmap: Translate strategy into a sequenced, credible roadmap, and build alignment across engineering, sales, and marketing.
• Pricing and packaging: Own how Prime is priced, packaged, and metered, including how Optimizer Hub is packaged as part of it.
• Team leadership: Manage, develop, and hire the product managers on Prime.
• Inbound product management: Ensure the team works with engineering beyond writing requirements.
• Outbound product management: Partner with marketing on positioning, launches, sales enablement, and public-facing content.
• Technical credibility: Hold your own with the engineering teams and understand JVM architecture and principles of operation.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in engineering and/or product roles, with a strong track record of launching and scaling products to revenue.
• 10+ years in product management, including owning a product or product line end to end.
• 5+ years managing teams, including hiring, developing, and managing product managers.
• Track record shipping enterprise infrastructure or developer software sold to platform and engineering teams.
• Ability to develop a deep working knowledge of JVM architecture and operation.
• Demonstrated ownership of pricing and packaging for a technical product.
• Experience building a go-to-market motion with sales.
• Experience conducting market and competitor research.
• Experience directly interacting with customers and prospects.
• Strong domain knowledge of public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes.
• Fluency with AI tools and experience operating in an AI-first product management organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable in a fully remote, async, multi-time-zone setup.
• Comfortable in a startup-shaped environment.

Requirements

• Hands-on software or quality engineering background.
• Experience with open source communities and licensing.
• Experience taking a product from early traction to a durable revenue line.
• Experience leading across more than one product at once.
• Experience with infrastructure software that customers deploy and operate themselves.
• Working knowledge of Java and Java development tooling.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• An advanced degree and/or relevant certifications are nice to have, but not required.

Location

This can be a fully remote role, ideally based in one of Azul's European locations such as Prague, Czech Republic or Limassol, Cyprus, OR any other location in Europe or the EU.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages.
• Referral Program.
• Work-life balance, remote-first, paid time off, company shutdown, holidays.
• Work with top experts worldwide who contribute to the Java ecosystem.

Company Description

• Maniacal Customer Focus.
• Innovation & Excellence.
• Initiative & Courage.
• Impact & Influence.
• Integrity & Transparency.
• Diversity, Inclusion & Teamwork.