Principal Product Manager - A10 Control and AI at A10 Networks in San Jose, California

Job Description:

Principal Product Manager - A10 Control and AI
A10 is a leader in infrastructure security and application delivery solutions. The largest service providers, hyperscalers, and enterprises rely on A10's hardware and software solutions to manage production traffic.

As a Principal Product Manager as A10 Control - our analytics and automation platform - your primary responsibility will be to create roadmaps and drive the implementation of A10's analytics and automation platforms for our infrastructure security and application delivery solutions. You will also play a significant role in applying AI to our predictive performance capabilities.

The ideal candidate:

• Has a thorough understanding of in-house developed A10 technology, market trends, and customer/prospect needs

• Has effective communication skills which are essential for both internal and external interactions

• Is experienced in creating and maintaining a product roadmap with a 1-3 year outlook

Job Description

• Collaborate with customers and sales teams to understand customers' needs and pain points and gather requirements for new features and enhancements

• Clearly define user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics to guide development efforts

• Create and manage product roadmap for both short-term and long-term outlook, prioritize features, enhancements, and initiatives based on customer feedback, market trends, and business priorities

• Work closely with engineering teams to translate product requirements into actionable development plans and define epics and user stories with clear prioritization

• Interact with the go-to-market (GTM) and customers to understand their needs, articulate the benefits of the A10 solution, provide high-level guidance on the solution's capabilities, and gather feedback and feature requests, as necessary

• Partner with the product marketing team to develop go-to-market (GTM) plans, product collateral, and marketing campaigns for product launches. Support the GTM team with customer engagement

• Gather feedback from our customers to continuously improve product offerings. Monitor customer satisfaction metrics and prioritize initiatives to address customer pain points

• Define performance metrics to track the success of product offerings and feature sets. Analyze data and performance metrics to identify areas for optimization and improvement

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field

• 5+ years of product management and 10+ years oexperience with a focus on networking, analytics, cloud or application delivery

• Previous work experience in network analytics, orchestration and AI/ML

• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear product requirements and strategies

• Effective communication skills both in written and oral form

• Skilled in and comfortable with presentations for both internal as well as external audience

• Experience in implementing technology solutions in an agile framework

Bonus Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge in ADC, WAF, public and private cloud networking, or DDoS protection

• Experience in building SaaS products with the use of AI/ML in analytics products

• Expertise in software products licensing, and subscription-based pricing

A10 Networks is an equal opportunity employer and a VEVRAA federal subcontractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. A10 also complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

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Compensation: Up to $230K USD