VP Product – Core Products

Aerospike

Product leader overseeing the strategy, execution, and success of Aerospike's Database products like Backup & Recovery. Leading cross-functional teams for market success and innovation.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $300,000 - $335,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop and drive the multi-year technical roadmap, investment strategy, and lifecycle execution for Aerospike’s core distributed database and its supporting ecosystem.
Translate platform goals into an integrated roadmap covering multiple product areas.
Make thoughtful investment decisions across net-new innovation, elastic platform scalability, multi-tenant cloud economics, and absolute operational reliability.
Conduct regular market and competitive analysis to identify trends and inform strategy.
Collaborate with engineering, field, marketing, customer success, and design teams to deliver aligned and effective outcomes.
Maintain a clear understanding of user needs and advocate for user experience improvements throughout the product lifecycle.
Maintain a portfolio-level view across all related products, ensuring clarity of ownership and coordination.
Prioritize initiatives and themes based on customer needs, technical constraints, and business impact.
Use product data, telemetry, and customer feedback to inform roadmap and success measures.
Support long-term planning and roadmap development across multiple time horizons.
Act as an executive sponsor and senior point of contact for key customers.
Build a deep understanding of enterprise use cases, particularly hybrid and cloud-native deployments.
Represent the developer and database operator perspectives in product decisions and core engineering cycles, driving friction-free deployment automation and world class observability into the platform.
Lead and mentor a team of product managers across the portfolio.
Define and track key performance indicators such as adoption, satisfaction, and business value.
Ensure ongoing measurement of product performance, quality, and customer impact.
Partner with engineering leadership to ensure timely and high-quality product delivery.
Arm sales engineering, marketing, and customer success teams with the technical blueprints and value propositions required to land new and accelerate enterprise adoption.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10 or more years in product management, with at least 5 years focused on enterprise software or data infrastructure in a leadership role.
Proven experience managing a portfolio of interrelated products and teams.
Strong background in distributed systems, database technology, or Kubernetes-based environments.
Exposure to both self-managed and cloud delivery models is preferred.
Familiarity with enterprise IT needs including backup, restore, observability, and deployment automation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation
Benefits
Remote flexibility

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementdistributed systemsdatabase technologyKubernetescloud delivery modelsdeployment automationobservabilityportfolio managementinvestment strategytechnical roadmap

Soft Skills

collaborationleadershipmentoringstrategic thinkinguser advocacyprioritizationcommunicationcustomer focusanalytical thinkingdecision making