New Grad - Product Manager - VMware NSX

Job Description

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Job Role and Responsibilities:

VMware is looking for a talented New Graduate to join the VMware NSX Product Management team.

The VMware NSX virtualization platform is helping hundreds of customers realize the full potential of a Software-Defined Data Center. NSX delivers for networking the capabilities VMware already provides for compute and storage. Create, save, delete and restore virtual networks on demand, without reconfiguring your physical network. NSX reduces the time to provision multi-tier networking and security services from weeks to seconds, abstracting virtual networks from the underlying physical network. This lets data center operators achieve faster deployment and greater agility, while providing the flexibility to run on top of any network hardware.

Product Managers must possess business acumen as well as technical wherewithal in order to be able to bring features in their product to market. Product Managers must work extensively with customers while working cross functionally with Product Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Corporate

Marketing and Alliance Partners in order to successfully prioritize features and develop the products that customers need.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Understand the IT networking and security market and leverage this knowledge to produce a leading product offering.
• Identify a variety of customer needs and use this information to define user personas, user stories, use cases, and product requirements for product features.
• Participate in the product feature planning process; ensure that the product feature set meets the requirements of customers and the marketplace.
• Work closely with VMware customers, developers, and key VMware stakeholders including Engineering, Support/Services, Product Management, and Sales.
• Deliver presentations to Sales, Sales Engineering and Customers on the features and benefits of those features

Required Skills:

• Pursuing an MBA degree with a BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical knowledge
• 3-5 years of work experience in product management, product marketing, or equivalent experience in enterprise software technology.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills and are confident presenting to large audiences (e.g. VMworld)
• Your experience includes interacting with and presenting to customers and prospects

Preferred Skills:

• You're capable of quickly understanding technologies, algorithms, and architecture, and interpret and articulate them into customer-facing implications
• Experience with VMware products
• You can seamlessly translate technology features into business benefits • You offer proven analytical abilities and think outside of the box
• You are capable in developing creative/non-traditional solutions
• You have knowledge of either networking and security IT products or Cloud Management Platforms (e.g. OpenStack, vRealize Automation, vCloud Director)
• Understanding the needs, scenarios, and common deployments in the enterprise datacenter is desirable
• Previous experience shows strong team skills and the ability to bring together diverse views.

This job opportunity is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship by VMware.

Category : Marketing
Subcategory: Product Management
Experience: New Graduate
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Work From Home: No
Posted Date: 2019-12-09

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