Senior Principal Inbound Product Manager, Technical (Data Platform, Databases)

Work matters. It’s where we spend a third of our lives. And the workplace of the future is going to be a great place. We’re dedicated to bringing that to life for people everywhere. That’s why we put people at the heart of everything we do.People matter. Our people have a passion for learning, building, and innovating. Whether you’re an engineer, a sales professional, a finance professional, or anything in-between, our roles aim to provide each person with meaningful impact and plenty of space to grow.We are a dynamic and rapidly growing software company with a strong sense of dedication to our customers. We work hard but try not to take ourselves too seriously. This is a very collaborative and inclusive work environment where individuals strong on aptitude and attitude will have an opportunity to grow their professional careers through working with some of the most advanced technology and talented developers in the business. We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits, and a professional, yet relaxed atmosphere.To sustain our explosive growth, we are looking for drivers—people who thrive on responsibility and live for the next big challenge. We seek to employ the brightest and most forward-thinking talent on the planet, and we want to hire people who have their best work ahead of them, not behind them. Accelerate your career and succeed in an environment where you can make an impact daily. We invite you to join in to stand out.Team:Come join the Data Platform Product team and work with a talented group of PMs, developers, designers and researchers. The Data Platform is the foundation of the NOW platform and provides scalable and intuitive databases and data services that enable our ecosystem of ServiceNow customers and partners. We are seeking individuals who are passionate about databases, data technologies, and scalable applications to join one of our fastest growing businesses.Role:ServiceNow customers work with a massive and diverse set of data to enable intelligent workflows across their businesses. We are looking for a product manager to join our RaptorDB team, our new ultra-scale performance database that powers the NOW platform.Our vision is to provide a comprehensive set of data services to our customers including our core relational databases, streaming technologies, computational frameworks, and specialized services for reporting and analytics.The Data Platform supports a wide range of relational, OLTP and OLAP databases and newer HTAP databases, with our recent acquisition of Swarm64. In addition, we also support several non-relational databases for search, time series, and data streaming. As we scale, we are moving to container-based provisioning and deployment models using Kubernetes.We aim to provide a world class data platform with a deep focus on scalability, reliability, and observability to operate and grow alongside the needs of our BUs and customers. This role is highly collaborative, working with peer inbound and outbound product managers across BUs, customers, and experienced engineers that build highly available systems and services across the ServiceNow ecosystem.What you get to do in this role:Product Strategy and Planning:Drive product vision and strategy that sets us up for success as we look to scale to $20B+ in revenueCollaborate with customers, researchers, and architects on developing and testing innovative product ideasContinually define and groom epic and story product roadmap with 3-4 release horizonEngage stakeholders on necessary inputs for product strategy & roadmap, get buy-in, manage communications, expectations and dependenciesRequirements Prioritization and Release Management:Establish and maintain relationships with the other BUs to evaluate and manage cross-BU dependencies (both from and to the BU)Create product/feature plans for each release, including acceptance criteria, use cases, success metrics, and related documentationCollaborate with engineering team on release mgmt.: understand status, risks, dependencies and help address risks and resolve issuesGather, prioritize and define requirements (while actively grooming backlog) into executable epics and user stories for engineeringCustomer Insights:Define key product success metrics and ensure they are instrumented & reviewedUnderstand how developers are using the product, gains, pains, and reasons for low usageKnow top 3-5 customers intimately, their specific use cases, gains and painsUnderstand use cases by BU to better serve internal customers