Vice President of Core Products, Aerospike
$252.5-280k
Salary Range for California Based Applicants
Real-time big data platform for organizations
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Real-time big data platform for organizations
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$252.5-280k
Salary Range for California Based Applicants
201-500 employees
Company mission
Aerospike's mission is to unleash the power of the world's real-time data.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
- Clear and confident communicator with the ability to influence at all levels
- Technically fluent and able to collaborate effectively with engineers, architects, and product teams
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building alignment across functions
- Strong balance of strategic thinking and operational execution
- Experience using metrics and analytics to inform prioritization and measure success
What the job involves
- Reports To: Chief Product Officer
- Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical workloads. We power millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, all while keeping total cost of ownership lower than competing solutions
- We are hiring a product leader to oversee the strategy, execution, and overall success of our Database product family. This includes Aerospike Database, Backup & Recovery, Connectors, Observability, and Aerospike Kubernetes Operator. The role also includes ownership of the Aerospike Database component of our fully-managed cloud products
- This is a senior-level, cross-functional leadership position. It is responsible for the full product lifecycle and plays a key role in shaping Aerospike’s roadmap, customer experience, and market success
- Product Leadership and Strategy
- Develop and drive the long-term product vision for Aerospike Database and its surrounding ecosystem
- Translate platform goals into an integrated roadmap covering multiple product areas
- Make thoughtful investment decisions across innovation, scalability, and 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
- Portfolio Management
- 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
- Customer Engagement and Advocacy
- 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 customer perspectives in product decisions and delivery plans
- Execution and Delivery
- 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
- Work closely with go-to-market teams to support product launches and drive adoption
- Partner with Product and Business Operations to continuously improve our ways of working
Our take
Aerospike is a high speed data platform that promises to reduce server footprints by up to 80%. Aimed at satisfying large-scale data platform requirements, clients include PayPal, Verizon Media, European Central Bank, and Snap Inc.
While there are other data platforms available such as DataStax, Redis Labs and Couchbase, Aerospike sets itself apart through offering no trade off between cost and a high level of performance and consistency on a large scale.
As massive petabyte data sets become the norm for large businesses, Aerospike realises the need for systems that can handle this in real-time. Its release of Aerospike Connect brings connectivity of Aerospike Database 5 with a range of big-name open-source frameworks such Apache Spark, Presto, Pulsar, Kafka and JMS - making Aerospike products more useful to a wider client set. Impressive Series E funding awarded in 2024 will be used to further develop its AI capabilities, specifically around graph and vector functions, capitalising on the current boom in the machine learning sector.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2024
$30m
LATE VC
Apr 2024
$109m
SERIES E
Total funding: $201m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans & FSAs
- Healthy in-office snacks
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Well-equipped workspace with standing desks, high-quality equipment and a fully stocked kitchen
- Weekly happy hours and regular company events
- Global team - you have the chance to connect with an international community and gain a global perspective
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Srini Srinivasan
(CTO)Worked as an IBM Senior Engineer for 4 years before working as a Server Architect at VerdiSoft and Yahoo!. They left their CTO role at Citrusleaf in 2009 to found Aerospike, serving as CPO since 2019.
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