Vice President of Product, Aerospike
Core Products
$300-335k
Salary Range for California Based Applicants
Real-time big data platform for organisations
Be an early applicant
Real-time big data platform for organisations
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$300-335k
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 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
- 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
- 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 requiring a unique blend of deep distributed systems and cloud-native operational rigor, with a focus on delivering results quickly
- 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 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Arm sales engineering, marketing, and customer success teams with the technical blueprints and value propositions required to land new and accelerate enterprise adoption
- Why This Role Matters:
- The Aerospike Database is central to real-time systems used by global leaders in finance, e-commerce, gaming, and telecommunications
- The supporting products you will manage shape how developers and operators interact with the platform
- Your leadership will drive innovation, improve user experience, and help Aerospike continue to deliver market-leading performance and reliability
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 as Apache Spark, Presto, Pulsar, Kafka and JMS - making Aerospike products more useful to a wider client set. Impressive Series E funding awarded in 2024 is being 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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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
(Founder & 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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