Roles and Responsibilities

- Drive product vision, direction, and business plans, including product plans/roadmaps, product evolution, and product lifecycle process for hardware selection and components roadmap
- Drive and develop processes and adhere to product life cycle process for export compliance, trademark compliance, export and import laws, patent filing in collaboration with R&D; and Marketing
- Identify, develop, and manage contractual, technical, and consulting relationships with strategic partners and service providers especially around their preferred hardware platform of choice
- Gather, validate, and evaluate product/market requirements through market and customer research, competitive and product research involving customer visits, advisory councils, industry events, analyst relationships, etc
- Provide insights to the business through analytics and market research in collaboration with Marketing around hardware life cycles and deprecation timelines.
- Work with Hardware Development team members and the Software Development team to implement the enhancements for the latest technology innovations, new regions, and instance types in the cloud
- Coordinate with QA Lead Manager to facilitate BETA testing activities with end users/testers
- Translate system functionality into business relevant language
- Drive measures to quantify product success and strategies to deliver customer delight. This includes developing business cases, identifying and assessing business opportunities, and determining strategic fit conditioned by technical feasibility
- Collaborate cross-functionally with sales and marketing to gain market, competitive, and customer insights and translate that into outcomes that drive unique value proposition, differentiation, and market share growth. Collaborate with R&D; to translate market requirements into innovative new technology and with support to deliver solutions that have rapid time-to-value and accelerate time-to-revenue




- Drive the pricing and cross-functional requirements (sales, channels, services, and marketing) to bring offer(s) to market for on-premises and cloud deployments covering CAPEX and OPEX and consumption- based pricing
- Work very closely with engineering to drive disruptive innovation and development prioritization at the fast pace of an early-stage startup
- Collaborate and drive user experience (UX) by working with engineering teams to create user-centered designs by considering customer feedback, technical constraints/opportunities, and usability findings and clearly define user personas and their requirements across the product line(s) and integration into existing cloud ecosystems
- Present the product(s) and service(s) to all audiences ranging from exec level (C-level) to technical audiences for end customers, partners, and integrators requiring excellent communication skills and adaptability when faced with gaining support from varying audiences
- Lead research, definition, and prioritization of new product ideas. Embrace new technologies and establish their value
- Drive the operational cadence and measure and prioritize critical initiatives, and contribute to the preparation of the content for Executive Staff, Quarterly Business Reviews and Board Meetings
- Engage in customer escalations in collaboration with Customer support and R&D; to help and drive customer satisfaction

Required Skills

• 5+ years in product management

• 3+ years in hardware product management

• Strong knowledge of Hardware architectures

• Deep knowledge around CPUs, GPUs and DPUs and PCIe, NVMe and SSDs

• Specific experience in building the strategy and roadmaps for IOT/Security products in agile environments

• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary

• Inspirational leader; can motivate, inspire, and motivate teams around a product vision

• Strong analytical and logical skills

• Ability to build Excel-based partner tools for BOM, Sizing, Pricing, etc purposes

• Problem-solving and organizational skills

📌 Product Manager (Gujarat)
🏢 Mantra Softech
📍 Gujarat