Hazelcast

Director, Product Management

Hazelcast

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsJavaKubernetes

About the role

  • Own the product roadmap for enterprise platform capabilities, including resilience, fault tolerance, high availability, data consistency, and disaster recovery features
  • Work closely with core platform engineering teams building distributed data store and streaming analytics capabilities in a Java-based, open-source environment
  • Partner with engineering to define, scope, and deliver features that meet the demanding reliability and performance requirements of Fortune 500 customers
  • Collaborate with Engineering and QA teams to ensure performance, scalability, and resiliency targets are met for customer workloads at scale
  • Engage with the open-source community and ecosystem to inform product direction, gather feedback, and drive adoption of Hazelcast’s open-source offerings
  • Become a deep product expert in Hazelcast’s real-time data platform, including in-memory data grid, streaming, and caching capabilities
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Documentation, Solution Architects, Sales Engineering, and Product Marketing to translate technical capabilities into customer value
  • Work effectively across time zones with Europe-based engineering teams, including regular overlap with CET/GMT working hours
  • Champion the adoption of AI-powered tooling and agentic workflows across product management and engineering processes—from AI-assisted product discovery and specification writing to leveraging coding agents and LLM-based tools to accelerate development velocity
  • Build strong trust with distributed teams and effectively negotiate backlog prioritization and release planning

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Product Management experience with enterprise software platforms
  • First-hand experience working with distributed systems, database internals, or middleware—you should be comfortable with topics like replication, consistency guarantees, shared-nothing architectures, threading models, and fault-tolerance patterns
  • Strong background working in Java-based technology environments; familiarity with the Java ecosystem, JVM performance characteristics, and enterprise Java frameworks
  • Demonstrated experience delivering resilience and reliability features for enterprise-grade products (e.g., high availability, disaster recovery, data replication, failover mechanisms)
  • Experience working with or contributing to open-source projects; understanding of open-source community dynamics, licensing, and go-to-market considerations
  • A computer science or related technical degree; advanced technical degree is a plus
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences
  • Data-driven and analytical mindset with strong product discovery and validation skills
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools and agents to enhance product management and engineering workflows (e.g., LLM-based coding assistants, AI agents for research and analysis, automated testing and documentation tooling)
  • Proven track record of building trust and collaborating effectively with remote, globally distributed engineering teams
  • Proficiency in one or more European languages (e.g., German, French, Turkish, Polish, or others) in addition to English (Nice to Have)
  • Experience working directly with European enterprise customers or across EU markets (Nice to Have)
  • Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, containers, managed cloud services) and how enterprise platforms are deployed in hybrid or multi-cloud environments (Nice to Have)
  • Experience with real-time or event-driven architectures, stream processing, or in-memory computing technologies (Nice to Have)
  • Track record of driving AI/ML integration into product strategy or engineering operations at a previous organization (Nice to Have)
  • Background in pricing and packaging for enterprise platform products (Nice to Have)
Benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
  • HSA/FSA
  • Basic & Supplemental Life & AD&D insurance
  • Short & Long-term Disability Insurance
  • 401k
  • EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
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Hard Skills & Tools
Product Managementdistributed systemsdatabase internalsmiddlewareJavaresilience featureshigh availabilitydisaster recoverydata replicationAI tools
Soft Skills
communication skillsdata-driven mindsetanalytical skillscollaborationtrust building
Certifications
computer science degreeadvanced technical degree