Director, Product Management — Infrastructure Automation
Perforce · Remote, USA
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Director of Product Management leading the product strategy and roadmap for Perforce's infrastructure automation platform, a desired-state automation tool that enforces configuration and drift prevention across data center and cloud infrastructure. The role manages a team of 5–6 senior product managers, reports to the VP Product, and partners with Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing. The posting names Puppet, Ansible, Chef, and Terraform as preferred experience and expects familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure as code.
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Position Summary:
Director, Product Management to lead product management for Perforce’s infrastructure automation business. This position will report to VP Product. Your mandate is to build a growth engine for infrastructure automation in the AI era, and to bring compliance and controls to infrastructure. At Perforce, product management runs on an AI-enabled operating model, and you will lead your team in it. You will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platform across its full lifecycle, and lead a team of 5–6 senior product managers. You will partner closely with Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, and the broader Perforce portfolio to drive adoption, retention, and growth.
About the Product:
The product is Perforce’s desired-state automation platform. It helps teams manage infrastructure wherever it is hosted, from the data center to the cloud, by automating repetitive tasks and configuration to prevent drift and reduce manual effort. Customers define custom policies, enforce them continuously, and automate reporting for audits, making the platform a trusted choice for security and compliance. More than 40,000 organizations rely on it to keep their systems in a desired state.
Responsibilities:
Product Strategy and Vision:
- Define and own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the platform, aligned with Perforce portfolio direction and business goals.
- Identify and prioritize investments across the core business and new opportunities, including where AI can change what the platform is responsible for in customers’ infrastructure operations.
- Establish clear outcomes and success metrics for every major initiative, and hold the team accountable to measurable customer and business results.
Leadership and Team Management:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 5–6 senior product managers, setting clear ownership and a high bar for quality.
- Build a culture of discovery, evidence-based decision making, and clear communication, including surfacing risks and bad news early.
- Hire and retain top product talent, and add specialist skills where the problem demands them.
Product Development Lifecycle:
- Oversee the product development lifecycle from discovery through launch and post-release outcome review, partnering with Engineering to deliver on commitments.
- Ensure problems are validated with customers before significant build investment, and that features ship with the instrumentation needed to measure their effect, including in on-premise deployments.
- Drive cross-functional alignment on release planning, packaging, pricing, and go-to-market readiness.
Customer and Market Engagement:
Innovation and Thought Leadership:
Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
Additionally, this position is eligible for benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, retirement benefits, life insurance, wellness programs, total time off, and other employee perks that may be offered by Perforce from time to time. The actual offer will depend on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s education, skills, qualifications, depth of experience and other relevant business considerations. Perforce reserves the right to amend or modify employee perks and benefits at any time.
All employees are expected to demonstrate AI fluency appropriate to their role and level, including responsible use of AI tools, sound judgment, and adherence to company AI governance and security policy standards.
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Compensation: USD 200,000 – 220,000 per year salary
