Senior Product Manager - Storage/Cost Optimization (Chronosphere)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Summary

About us

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. Chronosphere reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours.  Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including DoorDash, Affirm, and Zillow.

About the role

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead foundational areas of our Storage and Cost Optimization tiers. You’ll operate with one foot in the factory and one foot in the field, bridging between our customers and our engineering team, building feedback loops, and testing hypotheses. You must be comfortable with a deeply technical product that serves a deeply technical audience. Along with building great products, you’ll drive the messaging and storytelling for how these products help solve problems for developers. 

We run two lanes: a validation track to choose and specify what to build, and an agile build track to get it delivered. You’ll be responsible for both. 

Qualifications

You will

• Perform primary research, interviewing end-users and buyers.

• Build a researched perspective on current customer and future prospects needs.

• Deeply understand the competition.

• Set priorities and shape the roadmap.

• Communicate priorities and the roadmap, and align the team around them.

• Convert concepts into buildable projects.

• Act as product owner for a Scrum team working on observability features.

• Manage the backlog, groom stories, and break down tasks.

• Coordinate with product marketing on positioning and messaging.

• Drive clarity.

What you will achieve

You will start off in your role understanding the current roadmap and plans as a way to learn our product and gain insight to customer needs. While you execute on the short-term roadmap, you’ll establish your independent perspective on the state and evolution of the Cost Optimization and Storage needs of the market through ride-alongs in customer conversations, doing your own research and internal conversations with experts and learning from internal teams. 

Following this initial period, you will take full ownership of the Cost Optimization product area and parts of the Storage tier, establish problem statements, PRDs, drive scrum meetings, sprint planning, including ownership of success metrics, establishing/changing pricing when required, defining SLOs, establishing and managing to a COGS profile and working cross functionally across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales and other functions to help GTM teams position and independently sell.

The main success criteria of this role is to be able to chart the best possible path and execute on those plans and deliver value to customers.  An ongoing task thereafter is to take these new capabilities to the next level by staying close to customers and prospects.

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