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Senior Product Manager for Core/Storage

Virtuozzo

WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago

Skill Required

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Key highlights

Remote from within Europe
5+ years of technical PM or systems development experience
Open for contractors
Share Options provided
Focus on core infrastructure, virtualisation, and storage

Role overview

Virtuozzo is a leader in infrastructure system software for AI, offering an optimised operating system, orchestration, and management to service providers, SaaS companies, and the enterprise. They provide mainframe-like performance, reliability, and security while lowering cost and complexity. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead strategic product direction for our core platform offerings. This high-impact role focuses on the core infrastructure layer behind Virtuozzo Infrastructure and Virtuozzo Storage, where compute, virtualisation, networking, and software-defined storage converge to support real workloads as a true alternative to public clouds.

Responsibilities

Define and execute product strategy across cloud infrastructure, virtualisation, and storage components
Engage deeply with engineering teams on system architecture, RFCs, design reviews, and technical specs
Drive product innovation in performance engineering, scalability, and infrastructure optimisation
Lead competitive benchmarking and shape product direction based on data and market trends
Collaborate with hardware vendors (CPU, GPU, storage, networking) to deliver integrated, performance-optimised solutions
Align roadmap and delivery across virtualisation, cloud management platforms, and infrastructure tooling for CSPs, MSPs, and enterprise providers
Coordinate cross-product initiatives and ensure smooth integration with internal and third-party tools
Identify emerging technology trends and guide long-term investments in innovation
Support definition and enforcement of product quality KPIs, customer use cases, and performance benchmarks

Requirements

Virtualisation: containers, hypervisors, orchestration, GPU virtualisation
Storage: block, file, object; erasure coding, tiering, caching, replication
Networking and security within distributed systems
Experience writing Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) with detailed technical content
Ability to align engineers, architects, and kernel developers around shared product goals
Experience leading technical design discussions and architecture reviews and participating in RFC processes
Strong cross-functional leadership across QA, DevOps, SRE, benchmarking, and compliance
Familiarity with regulatory compliance and security standards (FIPS, GDPR, PCI-DSS)
Proven ability to analyse performance benchmarks, define KPIs, and make product decisions grounded in data
Excellent communication skills and ability to drive alignment between product, engineering, and field teams
5+ years of experience in technical product management OR 5+ years of hands-on experience in OS/storage/networking development or system-level Linux administration

Nice to have

Experience collaborating on patentable technologies or filing IP in infrastructure domains

Benefits

Flexible hours and remote work options
Share Options—everyone shares in our success with share options
We help our team get private medical insurance
Employee engagement and recognition programmes
Supportive, engineering-driven culture with minimal bureaucracy
The chance to influence Product and R&D decisions from day one
Depending on your location and preferred employment method, other perks and benefits apply