Senior Product Manager - Containers & Cloud

About Commvault 

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data. 

The Opportunity...

Commvault is seeking a Senior Product Manager with experience in Kubernetes, container orchestration, cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code. This position requires a strong technical foundation in virtualization and cloud platforms (VMware, AWS, Azure, OpenShift). In this role, you will define product vision, strategy, and roadmap to meet evolving market demands—serving as the key cross-functional liaison among Engineering, UX Designers, Product Managers, Sales, and Marketing. You must demonstrate the ability to create field readiness collateral, demos, best practices, white papers, and other materials. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
 

What you'll do...

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and articulate the vision, strategy, and roadmap for container-based and virtualization product lines in alignment with business goals.
• Prioritize features and improvements, collaborating closely with engineering, design, marketing, and other cross-functional teams to ensure timely, high-impact releases.

Customer & Market Insights

• Conduct market and competitive research to understand industry trends—especially those related to Kubernetes, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and virtualization platforms.
• Gather feedback from customers, prospects, and partners to shape product decisions and ensure real-world applicability.

Field Readiness & Enablement

• Develop and maintain demos, best practices, solution guides, white papers, and other field-facing resources to enable internal teams (e.g., sales, support, customer success) and external customers.
• Partner with marketing to create technical collateral and messaging around product capabilities and value propositions.

Thought Leadership & Evangelism

• Act as a subject-matter expert and evangelist on topics such as Kubernetes deployments, DevOps pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and virtualization strategies.
• Present at industry events, webinars, and user groups; produce thought-leadership content (blogs, case studies, solution briefs) to showcase real-world use cases.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work with UX, engineering, sales, marketing, and support teams to ensure product features address key customer needs and deliver measurable value.
• Be a customer champion – evangelize the product to drive adoption and act as a trusted advisor to customers

Travel & Engagement

• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and field events (approx. 20–30%) to gather feedback, demonstrate product capabilities, and foster strong customer relationships.
• Gather real-world insights from the field to refine and iterate on product direction and messaging.
   

Who you are...

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (MBA or advanced degree is a plus).
• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in a cloud-native or DevOps-centric environment.

Essential Skills

• Kubernetes & Containers: Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and container orchestration (Docker, container runtime, storage, container networking).
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or similar.
• Virtualization: Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware, HyperV, Nutanix, or similar.
• Storage & Volume Lifecycle: Preferred experience with Container Storage Interface (CSI), persistent and non-persistent volumes lifecycle management.
• Backup & Recovery: Familiarity with backup and recovery complexities in containerized, cloud, and virtual environments is a significant plus.
• DevOps & IaC: Proficiency with DevOps workflows and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools) is a plus.
• SaaS: Experience in delivering Enterprise focused products as SaaS is preferred