Field Product Manager, Industrial Platforms

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Field Product Manager, Industrial Platforms

  

Job Description

   

At SUSE, we believe every business is on a journey of digital transformation, and that transformation can be enhanced and accelerated by open-source innovation.  SUSE products and our processes are designed around the collective wisdom of our customers, community, partners, and employees.  Edge is a fast-growing business unit within SUSE that combines Business Critical Linux and Enterprise Container Management technologies and solutions to address business opportunities within edge compute scenarios.

A SUSE Field Product Manager is a recognized expert in multiple technology domains.  They are responsible for helping shape the future direction of the organization and work closely with business unit leadership to establish strategic roadmaps and longer-term strategic plans.  They have a strong track record of growing and influencing others and working with all levels of senior leadership. 

As a Field Product Manager in the SUSE Edge Business Unit, you will be joining a growing team responsible for leading SUSE’s strategic investment to be the open-source edge infrastructure company.  SUSE’s edge infrastructure platform provides retail, automotive, manufacturing, industrial, telco and other edge market segments with a mission-critical environment for deploying applications on remote edge devices.  Your leadership will assist in creating infrastructure that is rich enough to host complex applications but flexible enough to scale from hundreds to millions of instances and be deployed across different vertical edge market segments. 

As the SUSE Edge Field Product Manager, you will work across the organization with product managers, sales engineers, account executives, engineering project managers, developers, and other product stakeholders to ensure that SUSE's products are addressing the needs of the edge customer.  You will help design innovative solutions to complex technical problems using existing SUSE Kubernetes and SUSE Linux products like SUSE Rancher, SLE Micro, K3s/RKE2 and Fleet combined with the integration of other appropriate open-source community projects.  You will be a recognized expert, internally and externally, on leading-edge technologies, theories, or techniques.  As the SUSE Edge Field Product Manager, you will represent the edge business unit as the technical spokesperson on key projects or programs. 

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Contribute to the edge technical strategy and edge technology roadmaps for mission critical, large-scale, edge infrastructure deployments.  Identify challenges and technical interdependencies and suggest solutions to address them.

• Track upstream open-source projects and competitive industry products to identify and evaluate relevant developments and features.

• Collaborate with edge product management to properly position edge products and solutions. 

• Provide a point of escalation for consulting, presales, and product teams facing extremely complex technical challenges.

• Represent the edge business unit with strategic customer engagements and initiatives.  Share edge technology strategy and edge technology roadmaps and utilize customer input to shape future edge technology strategy and direction.

• Communicate the edge technical strategy and edge technology roadmaps to industry partners and customers; leverages recognized technical and