From critical, life-saving drug discovery research to archiving the work of some of the greatest artists on the planet (learn more about how Austin City Limits uses Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage), our customers entrust us with over an exabyte of data, documents, photos, music and videos.

We are looking for a Sr. Product Manager who has strong domain knowledge in the public cloud storage and data protection space to drive the B2 Cloud Storage rocket ship (pun intended!). This person will product manage our highest growing product and must have The-Little-Engine-that-Could attitude of going up against the behemoths in the domain.

Are you great at teasing out customer pains, translating that feedback into requirements developers understand and assessing whether we’ll grow our business from it? Do you like working with a bunch of committed, likable people? If you answered ‘yes’ to both, apply you must!

This position will be work-from-home until June 2021 and then based out of our headquarters in San Mateo, California.

Who you are:

• People like you as a person and would trust you to watch their dogs or kids
• 3-5 years of experience in public cloud storage, cloud data management, or data protection companies
• Familiar with features and API protocols used by public cloud providers
• Performs at the strategic and operational (execution) level and have launched multiple products
• Strong analytical ability, and experience in making decisions based on data
• So charismatic that cross-functional teams love working with you, strong enough that they’ll follow you anywhere
• Such a great listener that customers spill their guts to you
• Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence - effectively communicates with engineers, designers, our customers (B2C and B2B)
• Well versed in Agile/Scrum - such a meticulous story writer that QA teams love you
• Bias for action, doesn't wait for direction
• Strategic, creative and innovative
• Bachelor's degree required

• Talk to customers and understand their needs and pains and record that gold
• Know the public cloud and data protection landscape and see how the market is transforming
• Prioritize features based on business goals, customer needs, and resource capacity
• Develop and maintain a near- and long-term strategy for the product line
• Use the B2 Cloud Storage product with our integration partner’s products
• Create, manage and evangelize product roadmaps to cross-departmental key stakeholders
• Write clear and concise requirements and user stories and ensure that the development teams are fed with high priority work
• Participate in go-to-market plans, working and guiding product marketing, sales engineering and sales on technical solution and approaches
• Tell us why the next thing you’re going to work on is the most important thing for the company to do
• Define, live and breathe product KPIs
• You'll motivate the team - celebrate wins and pick ‘em up when there’s a setback
• Know how to get *stuff* done without anyone telling you what the *stuff* is or how
• Lastly, make your manager look like a genius for hiring you