Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint™ in hybrid environments—from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.

We’re transforming the software industry.  We’re Flexera.  With more than 50,000 customers across the world, we’re achieving that goal. But we know we can’t do any of that without our team.  Ready to help us re-imagine the industry during a time of substantial growth and ambitious plans?  Come and see why we’re consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester and IDC as a category leader in the marketplace. Learn more at flexera.com

We are looking for a Cloud Product Manager to join FinOps Product team at Flexera.  If you have experience with creating product solutions for management/modernization/migration in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, …) and/or containers (Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKE, …) then we need you.  By leading and inspiring talent in the engineer and designer teams you will ship product features that delight users while delivering business value to customers.

You will be responsible for understanding and refining user requirements, defining a roadmap for your product area and executing on it.  Your day-to-day activities will include customer and market research, communicating with customers, engineering, product, and internal stakeholders, working with architects and user experience engineers on technical designs for roadmap features.

Critical in this role will be your ability to manage incoming feature requests, participate in roadmap planning, develop business case justifications for new capabilities and feature enhancements, develop user stories, conduct customer interviews and manage customer interactions during design and implementation process.

Successful candidates will be able to effectively communicate with a variety of stakeholders (ranging from customers, sales to engineering), will drive timely delivery of features and be able to prioritize needs.

The Products

Companies invest in their IT architecture and applications with the best intentions, but decentralized models result in inefficiency and overspend, often in the $$$ millions. As the pace of deployment and migration to the cloud continues to accelerate, it creates unique challenges of maintaining visibility and control at scale across multiple cloud instances and the additional array of services in the environment. Further, hybrid cloud configurations and a high velocity of workload migration and change is leading to greater complexity in the IT environment.

We are a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in Cloud Management, and our solutions provide comprehensive, consistent and reliable data essential to driving key business outcomes:

Gain visibility into cloud spend across your entire organizationTrack and monitor cloud spend vs. actual allocated budgetManage multiple cloud instances and services from a single viewEasily identify the best workloads to migrate to the cloudGovern cloud use with automated policies

Desired Experience

Familiar with building products intended for key IT functions in large organizations like IT Asset Management, IT Service Management, and IT Financial Management, Public Clouds Management, …Understanding of what it takes to architect & build a successful SaaS applicationBringing the “whole product” to internal audiences (sales, marketing, etc.) and Sales enablementThink in terms of the customers’ needs and the business value they need to see from a feature, and only then work backward to define the feature itselfThink in terms of what is our true differentiation in the marketAble to articulate these value drivers and differentiators directly to customers and prospectsUnderstand the end-to-end flow from data collections all the way through to insight generation and taking data-driven actionsBe comfortable in front of customers and be able to build relationships

Desired Skills

Extremely strong problem-solving skills going from the customer to how the technology works with ability to quickly translate customer opportunity or need into product and technology requirementsStrong strategic thinking, able to translate the company's strategic direction into a concrete planAbility to innovate with an understanding of how to take ideas forward through strong influence skills - build relationships and evangelize strategy & plan well (verbally and written)Deep empathy for customers, values designing user-centric experiences, specific to true consumer needs based on consumer insight and dataExperience with agile software development methods and dev-ops processesComfortable with ambiguity; self-starter and purpose-driven; have a strong sense of curiosityAbility to communicate with and align around technical strategies with architects and product ownersAble to break down customer needs to product components, features, and technologiesCapacity management experience or working with tools in the spacePoints for expert knowledge in one or more of the following subjects: Public cloud cost optimization, public cloud IaaS/PaaS catalogs, Public cloud console & APIs/CLI, Container environment management and capacity planning, Business Service dependency mapping, CMDB

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required; education concentrated in business or technology fields is preferred - 5+ years of experience in a product manager or product owner role, preferably in enterprise SaaS or mid-market digital productsExperience with enterprise solutions targeting Global 5000 customersExperience working in matrix organization influencing work in different functions of user experience design, and software development

Flexera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants will be considered for open roles regardless of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local/national laws, policies and/or regulations. 

Flexera understands the value that results from employing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. We recognize that equity necessitates acknowledging past exclusion and that inclusion requires intentional effort. Our DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) council is the driving force behind our commitment to championing policies and practices that foster a welcoming environment for all.

We encourage candidates requiring accommodations to please let us know by emailing careers@flexera.com.