Product Manager - Virtualization Team

Location: San Francisco – Hybrid/Remote Available
Job Type: Full-Time

Job Overview:

Our Product Management Team is looking to hire a Product Manager in San Francisco, CA (preferred), Indianapolis, IN, or remote.

As a Product Manager working with our Autonomous Infrastructure Management Engine team, you will be responsible for overseeing the innovation in our KVM-based hypervisor, including managing the product's entire lifecycle, from concept to launch and continuous improvement. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, sales, and customer support, to ensure the product delivers exceptional value to our customers and meets market demands.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Develop and own the product roadmap for the HyperCore hypervisor, aligning it with the company’s strategic objectives.
• Market Research & Analysis: Conduct competitive analysis and gather customer feedback to identify market needs and opportunities for product enhancement.
• Feature Definition & Prioritization: Define, prioritize, and communicate product features and requirements to the engineering team, ensuring they deliver high-impact value.
• Collaboration: Work closely with engineering and quality engineering teams to ensure timely delivery of features and product releases.
• Cross-functional Leadership: Coordinate across different engineering software component teams to introduce features and enhancements that drive product awareness, adoption, and customer satisfaction.
• Customer Engagement: Interface directly with customers to gather feedback, understand pain points, and ensure the product is solving their challenges.
• Continuous Improvement: Keep up with trends in virtualization technologies, particularly KVM, QEMU, and libvirt.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Product Manager, ideally working on virtualization technologies or infrastructure products.
• Strong understanding of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and other virtualization technologies, including:
  • QEMU
  • Libvirt
  • VirtIO
  • virsh
• Experience managing the full product lifecycle—from ideation to execution.
• Solid knowledge of infrastructure technologies, with an emphasis on private cloud and on-premise compute and storage.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies and product management tools (e.g., GitHub, Savio).
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Ability to analyze complex technical concepts and present them in a clear and compelling way to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to deliver innovation in small chunks that satisfy minimum requirements to maximize speed of delivery.
• Strong business acumen, technical aptitude, analytical skills, and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage and prioritize projects and ticketing systems with a team and external contractors.
• Willingness to travel up to 20%.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Previous experience working in a B2B technology company.
• Familiarity with open-source projects or contributions to the virtualization community.
• Experience with public/private cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.) and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of networking concepts and common networking protocols.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive salary, based on experience.
• Health Insurance: Vision, Dental, and Medical (HDHP & PPO options).
• PTO & paid company holidays.

About Us:

Scale Computing is a global business with offices around the world, thousands of customers, and countless applications running on our industry-leading SC//Platform. We enjoy this success because we have made a conscious effort to build this company amazing person by amazing person—could you be the next to join us as the newest Scaler?

Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Our HyperCore software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing them with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications.

Using patented HyperCore™ AIME technology, the self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime.

When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing HyperCore is the ideal infrastructure platform. Read what our customers have to say on Gartner Peer Insights, Spiceworks, TechValidate, and TrustRadius.

Scale Computing was founded on the belief that transparency and collaboration create a culture of ownership, success, and empowerment; more empowered employees are more productive employees.

At Scale, we build empowerment through diversity and our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Collaboration, Success, and Fun.

We are an “all killer, no filler” organization and believe everyone has an important role. We look for highly motivated, smart, and fun people to fill those roles.

If working with other amazing people to help us build a wildly successful company sounds exciting to you, we’d love to hear from you!