VP

Company: VMware
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

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**The Business**

Together our $2 billion Cloud Management Business Unit (CMBU) is leading the transition to software defined data centers (SDDC) across public, hybrid and private clouds. CMBU is at the heart of the IT transformation led by cloud, SaaS, virtualization, devops and containers. These trends represent a huge opportunity for continuing to define our strategic opportunity in the market. As the Product Leader you will help lead the way and vision in the rapidly transforming Infrastructure and Application Operations space, defining the management and operations of SDDC and Apps and the way enterprises run and manage their cloud infrastructure. Amidst the rapid growth of our offerings, you'll expand vRealize Suite's market leading position, further establishing VMware as a leader in the cloud management segment. To find out more go to https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-operations.html and https://cloud.vmware.com/log-insight-cloud .

**The Role**

The VP, Product Leader for the Cloud Operations business will report to the SVP & GM of the Cloud Management Business Unit and will lead an established team of 285+ engineers and product managers. You will be responsible for providing the vision and leadership to both engineering and product management teams and executing a strategy to advance our market leading cloud operations position in the market.

This executive will be a thought leader in driving and defining the vision for the business including building and driving new product capabilities to include integrations with VMware Cloud, Public Cloud, vRealize Cloud Management platform and the SDDC stack.

You will establish a culture of excellence in execution. You will define realistic targets and achievements, establish a high level of team participation and interaction, serve as an inspiring leader, drive a culture of innovating on behalf of customers, ensure that quality is a high priority at every stage, and deliver continuous value to our customers.

**Primary need, challenges and responsibilities** :

+ Oversee engineering and product management to execute a product strategy that maintains and advances our market leadership position in multi-cloud management.

+ Partner with the field sales organization in order to continue to grow and scale the business.

+ Deliver on product roadmaps on-time and with high quality as well increase speed of product innovation that will drive the next phase of growth for VMware and CMBU via next generation products.

+ Continue to create and evangelize a transformative vision for VMware's Cloud Operations.

+ Build strong, productive, collaborative partnerships with other business units here at VMware.

+ Make organizational and process changes to eliminate any friction impairing us from the continuous delivery of value for our customers and maximize engineering productivity.

+ Maintain strong partnership with the marketing organization to drive demand generation pipeline.

+ Develop, lead, and inspire the team. Be a magnet for engineering and product management talent and accelerate hiring. Solidify succession plans and enhance management capabilities to meet strategic and operating objectives.

+ Be a respected leader in the company. Establish a strong collaborative culture with peers and other functions within VMware. Promote a culture of success, pride, performance, discipline, and creativity. Be an effective spokesperson and champion for the Cloud Operations product and engineering teams.

+ Work closely and engage with VMware executives and direct reports to establish an environment that is motivating and entrepreneurial in nature.

**Candidate Profile and Characteristics:**

+ Progressively broadening engineering and product leadership experience from a company building enterprise grade software products and SaaS services delivering with high quality and operational readiness across a suite of products.

+ Experience ideally working in large public cloud and/or SaaS software companies.

+ Has inherent knowledge of development processes and best practices to manage multiple projects consistently on time and on budget.

+ Ability to dive deep into technical details as and when necessary, garnering the respect of the engineering and product teams assisting in the correct technical choices if appropriate.

+ Consistent track record of success leading development and/or product teams in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment where management of complex product requirements is a critical driver of success.

+ Specific experience transforming, organizing and/or reorganizing an engineering function for growth into highly competitive new markets and/or has been through an on-prem to SaaS transformation allowing for strategic opportunities requiring short product life cycles and flexible and adaptable product architectures.

+ Validated leadership experience setting the vision and building, leading, and motivating engineering and product teams. Trained in software development organization and leadership from a company well known and widely respected for world-class software development processes and practices.

**Additional specifics**

+ Demonstrates a "high organizational IQ".

+ Ideally has successfully led technical teams of at least 200+.

+ Stays abreast of key competitor actions and their implications or threats to the business.

+ Experienced managing geographically distributed teams.

+ Conveys an understanding of the organization's global market position, opportunities, capabilities, and competitive threats.

+ Identifies and anticipates customer requirements, expectations, and needs.

+ Able to be assertive when necessary and hold people accountable for achieving their goals.

+ Leads by example, creating a sense of energy, ownership, detail orientation, collaboration and personal commitment to the work.

+ Inspires others to stretch beyond what they thought they could do.

**Education**

BS/BA in Computer Science or related field/degree. Advanced degree strongly desired

**Category :** Engineering and Technology

**Subcategory:** Product Dev Management

**Experience:** Executive

**Full Time/ Part Time:** Full Time

**Posted Date:** 2021-03-09

Cloud Management: VMware's Cloud Management team delivers vRealize Suite, a solution that's essential to accelerating our customers' journey to digital transformation. It's our market-leading, state-of-the-art cloud management platform designed to deliver and manage IT services across private, public, and hybrid clouds. VRealizeSuite is an integrated, comprehensive solution that meets the challenge of managing a cloud infrastructure from a single pane of glass. We're changing the way users design, build, view, and manage public and private clouds,and enabling them to run with optimal performance, insightful analytics and automated delivery. Join our user-focusedteam of software engineers, data scientists, web designers, product managers, and marketers. You'll gain valuable experience in the fast-growing field of cloud infrastructure management from a pioneer and industry leader.

VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what's possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.

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