Sr. Manager, Product Management - Platforms - London UK, Hybrid

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Key Responsibilities

Product strategy: Define the vision and roadmap for the hardware and system software product, considering market trends, customer needs,

Requirements Summary

Understanding the competitive landscape, market segments, and customer requirements to position the product effectively.

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Gigamon is seeking a Senior Manager, Product Management for it's core platforms, to play a vital role in our product line management team focused on the software that runs on all of the hardware platforms. The person in this role will be working as part of a team in this domain, with the responsibility to drive, manage and enable product success from ‘vision’ to ‘bookings’. The right candidate will be a strategic team player with demonstrated excellence in understanding market and customer needs, collaborating with other stakeholders to develop product strategy and translate that strategy into world-class products.

The ideal candidate would have an excellent understanding of networking, competitive analysis and is obsessed with starting from the customer problems and working backward.

What you'll do:

Product strategy: Define the vision and roadmap for the hardware and system software product, considering market trends, customer needs, and competitor analysis to identify potential features and functionalities.
Product development and team work: Collaborate with engineering to develop, and implement new features, enhance existing ones, prioritize key fixes, and ensure the product meets performance and scalability requirements.
Market analysis: Understanding the competitive landscape, market segments, and customer requirements to position the product effectively.
Product launch: Plan and execute product launches with a cross functional set of stakeholders, including internal and external enablement.
Voice of the customer: Meet regularly with customers and partners to evangelize the vision, strategy, and roadmap, and collect feedback both on existing products and features but also building an understanding of where customers are going next, with a focus on the "why".
Technical expertise: Visibility platforms require a strong understanding of both hardware architectures and network protocols. Bringing a strong understanding of networking will be key to working well with both customers and engineering.

What you'll bring:

Solid Product Management experience working with operating systems, platforms, system architecture, or related technologies.
Well rounded Product Management skills, from working with customers to understand pain points, translating these into well written requirements, articulating the needs both at a technical and business level.
Prior experience driving requirements, from initial writing, to discussions with engineering, to delivery in a release.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience working cross-functionally, with Engineering, Project Management, Marketing, and Technical Marketing/Product Marketing.

Who you are:

Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement.
Ability to manage and influence positively through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus-building.