Senior Product Manager for Core/Storage
Virtuozzo
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
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Key highlights
- Remote from within Europe; open for contractors
- Share Options—everyone shares in our success with share options
- Private medical insurance
- 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
- Flexible hours and remote work options
- Supports real workloads and not simply as a wrapper for public clouds, but as a true alternative
Role overview
Virtuozzo is a leader in infrastructure system software for AI, offering an optimized operating system, orchestration, and management to service providers, SaaS companies, and the enterprise. The company provides mainframe-like performance, reliability, and security while dramatically lowering overall cost and complexity. This Senior Product Manager role focuses on leading strategic product direction for core platform offerings, specifically the core infrastructure layer behind Virtuozzo Infrastructure and Virtuozzo Storage where compute, virtualisation, networking, and software-defined storage converge. The role involves collaborating with engineering, customers, and partners to define the roadmap, drive innovation, and guide product execution across performance, resilience, scalability, and efficiency of block, file, and S3-compatible object storage, along with integration with virtualised and cloud-native workloads.
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
- 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
- Excellent communication skills and ability to drive alignment between product, engineering, and field teams
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
Additional details
- Location: Remote from within Europe; open for contractors
- Focus on core infrastructure layer behind Virtuozzo Infrastructure and Virtuozzo Storage
- Product scope includes performance, resilience, scalability, and efficiency of block, file, and S3-compatible object storage
- Integration with virtualised and cloud-native workloads across hyperconverged and standalone deployments