Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Linux

Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Linux

ABOUT WIND RIVER 

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.  

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone. 

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world. 

 
YOUR ROLE

We’re hiring an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for eLxr Pro, our commercial Debian distribution.  We launched the eLxr Project and its commercial version, eLxr Pro, in 2024 to address challenges presented by today’s edge-to-cloud deployments and provide a secure, lightweight enterprise Linux based on Debian.

As Product Manager for eLxr (Pro and Project), you will own the strategy and roadmap for this product line end-to-end.  You’ll gather input from external customers, sales, market research, fellow product managers, support teams, and partners, and define the future of enterprise Linux at Wind River with a focus on the edge.       

You will take over some existing projects and roadmap elements and collaborate with other product managers on the team who own other parts of our commercial Linux offering.   You will write requirements, justify investments, prioritize the backlog, own your roadmap, do market research, analyze the competition, collaborate with the sales teams on key deals, review defects, engage with extended teams, and evangelize eLxr Pro and Project both internally and externally.       

You will work in close partnership with experienced Engineering and Product Management teams. 

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE 

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

You are an experienced business leader who is passionate about building great software and have an affinity for open-source software, Linux, and associated tools and technologies.        

• 8+ years managing the entire product lifecycle, from concept to end-of-life
• Experience managing open-source products or projects, with Linux-based products strongly preferred
• Experience with strategic planning, roadmap development, feature prioritization, Agile methodologies and the Product Owner role, and project management
• Experience writing requirements for engineering
• Demonstrated application of business rationalization against a technical product
• Excellent understanding of the Linux ecosystem and open source for enterprise
• Good understanding of security, containerization, and orchestration concepts, cloud technologies and constructs (containers, universal base images, Kubernetes)
• Strong analytical abilities, with excellent written and oral communication skills with a collaborative mindset
• Great presenter, public speaker and advocate for your customers and product line
• Experience supporting customers, account teams, and partners in solution design and strategic partnerships
• Ability to move easily between product, services, marketing, strategy, and technical discussions
• Bachelor’s degree with suitable experience required.  Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or MBA a plus.

Moderate travel (5-10%) may be required depending on location.

Must be a US or Canadian citizen residing in one of the following locations: Walnut Creek, CA, San Diego, CA or Boston, MA with ability to be present on site 3 days/week.    

BENEFITS 

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
• Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays
• 401K with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind

APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:  

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here.   

Wind River is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

Compensation 

The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is currently $195,000 to $220,200 plus a bonus for MA and CA residents, and $220,000 to $270,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

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