Remote Principal Product Manager - Integration

Harnessing the Power of Data, Together.

Solace stands at the forefront of technology and innovation, empowering the world's largest enterprises in their journey towards becoming real-time, data-driven organizations. Our cutting-edge technology intelligently, securely and reliably helps our customers by solving use cases like hybrid cloud integration, IoT connectivity, microservices, and big data distribution.

The next time you drive a luxury vehicle, order new furniture online, fly in a plane, or do some online banking, your positive experience could be a direct result of our technology, and your hard work!

We are looking for a passionate Product Manager who wants to be a part of defining the future of Event Driven Integration. The successful candidate will have in-depth experience building application integration platforms with a passion for helping customers connect any data, system, or application to help their business succeed. Experience with API management, analytic platforms, or applications built for high scale and performance is a big plus. This position will be tailored to the ideal candidate’s experience. We are looking for either a Director, Product Management - Integration, or Principal Product Manager for integration products.

You will be working with the latest technologies and tools, and collaborating with our customers, our CTO, our marketing team, and our dynamic engineering team to plot our strategic direction. You will evaluate the competitive landscape, prioritize enhancement requests from customers, and decide which strategic initiatives and functions will bring the most value to our customers. You will work with our marketing and training teams to generate collateral for the initiatives you lead and present this content you develop to our field teams and our customers. Your decisions will help to drive Solace’s growth in the real-time event movement space and shape our integration strategy.

This position is available for remote work. You can be located anywhere in North America.

You will be responsible for:

• Defining the strategic product roadmap and business direction for our Event Driven Integration offering.
• Evangelizing our strategic roadmap direction with customers to make sure we meet their business needs.
• Working with our field teams to understand customer pressures and sales obstacles and work to remove them.
• Balancing product vision & roadmap with partner and customer feedback, competitive analysis, prioritizing across a diverse set of inputs and constituents.
• Understanding product adoption by using metrics and KPIs to measure growth.
• Partnering with Industry experts to identify high-impact business problems that will bring exponential growth to our team.
• Defining pricing and packaging for the products you lead.
• Helping Solace take products to market and drive customer adoption by delivering resources for marketing, training, blogs, demos, customer success, and developer communities.

Solace Product Managers need to be highly skilled technically, with strong communication and customer skills. They must possess the ability to work with all the internal and external stakeholders to understand in detail the product use-cases and requirements, and clearly communicate those requirements to the engineering team.

Our Product Managers must understand the technology and use-cases in detail so they can guide the solution. They must also be pragmatic in setting the product direction and exhibit

a strong understanding of the business impact of their product choices and

decisions.

The Ideal Candidate has:

• 10+ years of experience in product management related to application integration. Ideally leading the strategy for a market-leading integration platform (iPaaS) like MuleSoft, Microsoft, Workato, or Snaplogic.
• Experience defining product strategy by leading aspects like strategic roadmap definition, customer discovery, pricing strategies, market opportunity understanding, SWOT analysis, etc.
• Experience taking products to market by collaborating with product marketing to define product positioning, enablement strategies, sales collateral, etc.
• Superior communication, presentation, and coordination skills.
• Direct, hands-on experience with Hyperscale Cloud Services or Integration Platforms.
• Experience building or architecting a distributed software system or software as a service (SaaS).
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and platforms such as Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Familiarity with messaging technologies and interfaces such as JMS, AMQP, MQTT, and REST.
• Experience with real-time systems, event brokers, or messaging middleware is a plus.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering preferred.

Why You’ll Want to Join Us at Solace

• Our Mission! We are making the world event-driven. We introduced and pioneered the industry concepts of the Event Mesh and Event Portal to change the way people connect applications and now will do the same for event-driven integration.
• http://tinyurl.com/What-is-an-event-mesh
• http://tinyurl.com/What-is-an-event-portal
• Our team! Work with some of the smartest and most passionate individuals in the business
• We believe in work-life balance and believe it’s important to love what you do
• We have adopted a hybrid work model to create an inclusive working environment for everyone
• We live by our values: craftsmanship, trust, courage, freedom, momentum, humility, and human experience. Every. Single. Day.
• Our training programs are top-notch (LinkedIn Learning, Mentorship program, Solace Academy)
• We like to brag about our stellar customer lineup! (https://solace.com/company/customers/)
• We are social – we like to keep things simple and fun!
• We are one of the top-ranked employers on Glassdoor
• We have a sense of humour and make cool videos on cool topics like MITT and this! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ctc3K_Y8w)

We understand that experience takes on various shapes and sizes. Not sure you meet all the requirements? We still want to hear from you! Your unique experience could be exactly what we are looking for.

At Solace, we believe that diversity and inclusion drive innovation and growth, both in business and in life. We strive to create an enriching and safe workplace where you can be who you are. If you want to do the best work of your career and feel supported every step of the way, we encourage you to join us!

Accommodations are available upon request for anyone taking part in the hiring process. Let us know how we can help! We thank all candidates for their interest, however, only those selected to continue in the selection process will be contacted.