Product Director, Aiven
Databases
Open source cloud data management platform
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Open source cloud data management platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Aiven aims to be the world’s leading cloud data platform – by making developer’s lives better.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 7+ years in a product management role for enterprise software, ideally with database, analytics, or security. Any LLM or GenAI experience is welcome
- Strategic Vision: A seasoned professional with a long-term perspective, capable of thinking beyond immediate features and empowering your team to explore new possibilities
- Market Understanding: Strong knowledge of the enterprise database market, application development, and analytics
- Leadership: Proven experience leading 2+ product managers directly
- Execution: Track record of leading multiple product teams to consistently deliver high-impact projects on time, within scope, and with high rates of revenue growth
- Technical Acumen: Comfortable with technical complexity and collaborating with engineering teams on prioritization
- Organizational Skills: Excellent administrative and organizational skills with a focus on results. Ability to manage multiple cross-functional teams and collaborate with stakeholders across the organization
- Analytical Mindset: Proficiency in statistical analysis, using data to set OKRs, monitor product health, and evaluate company-wide analyses
- Interpersonal Skills: Ability to work effectively with diverse personalities and navigate complex situations with composure, setting a positive example for the team
- Communication Skills: Excellent presentation and communication skills, capable of engaging large audiences and clearly articulating and defending strategic decisions
- Adaptability: Ability to embrace change and our team’s existing practices while proactively suggesting improvements and thriving in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities
- Global Mindedness: Enjoy working across different time zones and participating in cross-functional team meetings
What the job involves
- We are looking for someone to continuously drive innovation and position Aiven as “the” go-to solution provider for four of the fastest-growing and most popular engines, along with LLM hosting and GenAI Ops
- You will work closely with our Head of Developer Experience, to enhance and optimize our Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategy, and take ownership of Aiven’s largest business stream, with the ambitious goal of 50% growth over the next 3 years
- Thought Leadership: Establish Aiven as a thought leader in the database space by engaging with customers and industry influencers to shape the broader data narrative
- Strategic Leadership: Steer the strategic vision and outcome-focused roadmap, informed by customer insights, proactive monitoring of market trends, and competitive analysis
- Partnerships: Forge strategic partnerships to expand our market reach and impact
- Business Growth: Share responsibility for revenue growth goals at the domain level with the Head of the Domain and the Engineering Director
- Team Leadership: Lead, inspire, and develop a team of talented technical Product Managers, responsible for other products and revenue streams in the domain portfolio
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Sales and Marketing to drive product marketing, lead generation, and sales success. Partner with organizational leaders to overcome business challenges and drive growth
- Accountability and Impact: Take ownership of work and understand how individual contributions affect the entire team
- Autonomy: Thrive in a collaborative environment, yet capable of focused, independent work
- Resourcefulness and Persistence: Proactively and creatively seek out the necessary information to complete tasks
- Empathy and Support: Demonstrate empathy and actively help colleagues overcome obstacles
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Cloud computing presents massive implications for the way businesses use data, with cloud-based databases ensuring high uptime, frictionless scalability, and simple software integrations. However, achieving this requires setting up cloud databases in the first place, an obstacle that can be incredibly tough and prevent companies from migrating to cloud-based data infrastructure altogether.
Aiven provides an open-source cloud data management platform, allowing users to easily set up cloud databases, access cloud tool integrations, automate data infrastructural management, and control data security within a single platform. The platform integrates directly into open source data services such as Apache Kafka and OpenSearch, supports multi-cloud deployments, and includes built-in compliance, encryption, and end-to-end security features. In 2023, it added AI-powered data optimisation capabilities via its integration of EverSQL's engine into its products.
Whilst various companies are tackling the difficulties of setting up cloud databases, Aiven has smartly taken more of an all-in-one approach, tackling everything from the building and managing of databases to software integrations, multi-cloud hosting, and security. The company claims that its cloud data solutions can massively reduce the amount of time, money, and resources that businesses must spend to migrate to cloud-based data infrastructure.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$210m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $420m
Company benefits
- Stock options for permanent employees
- Training/language courses & Aiven library
- Flexible work/life balance
- Private health and dental care
- Proper equipment to do your job
- Office snacks
Company values
- We are open 💡 Open to any new idea. Open to inspiration from every colleague and experience. Openly supporting the open source community that helped make us who we are. At Aiven, we don’t just look ahead. We look around. Take it all in, and put ourselves out there. We think sideways, speak up and grow freely. Working in teams. Working with leaders. And leading ourselves. Left, right, forwards, upwards. We open up our industry in every direction.
- We are owners 💯 Owning our decisions. Owning our mistakes. Owning the places they take us. Whatever we’re doing, we commit to the journey. It’s not always a straightforward path, and we often have to leap without knowing where exactly we’ll land. But that’s what thinking sideways is all about. With other Aiveners beside us, we take responsibility for our actions, and take pride in our achievements.
- We are courageous 🧑🚀 The courage to take on any challenge. The courage to take calculated risks. The courage to drive changes, not resist them. Our future holds great opportunities . So we need to be bold, think sideways, and evolve. And when you’re surrounded by inspiring colleagues, fascinating problems and opportunities left, right and centre, evolution comes naturally.
Company HQ
Kamppi, Helsinki
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Leadership
Oskari Saarenmaa
(CEO)Senior Software Engineer and Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2002 to 2011.CEO and Software Architect of Ohmu Ltd. from 2010 to 2016.
Heikki Nousiainen
(CTO)Experience as Information Security Specialist for TietoEnator. Lead Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2008 to 2015.
Hannu Valtonen
(CPO)Experience as Senior Software Engineer and Lead Architect for F-Secure Corporation. Software Architect and Partner of Ohmu Ltd. since 2010.
Mika Eloranta
(Chief Architect)Experience as Lead Software Engineer and Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 1998 to 2011. Software Architect and Partner of Ohmu Ltd. from 2010 to 2016.
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