Director, Product Management

Due to its remote and hybrid culture, Alation conducts all of its interviewing and onboarding virtually.

Big Data isn’t a problem. It’s an opportunity.

At Alation, we help people find, understand, and trust data. So they not only excel in their work — they drive value for their enterprise, team, and role. In the words of one customer, “Alation makes me look like a rockstar.”

We help companies like Pfizer, Salesforce, and General Mills empower their people with the best data every day. As a platform for innovation, Alation helps customers create game-changing solutions (like a program for early-stage disease detection with Pfizer) and connect people to great data in less time (like Salesforce, whose analysts can now find data 35% faster). And we’re just getting started.

With more than $340M in funding - valued at over $1.7 billion and 450+ customers with household names - Alation is poised to capitalize on data as an opportunity. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list for the third time, and our exceptional Glassdoor rating (4.7 out of 5!) reflects a culture that makes coming to work each day a joy. Do you want to join a team that welcomes new ideas, supports your growth, and recognizes your unique value?

Join us!

Alation is seeking a Director of Product Management to join the team in Chennai, India (or remote from another city in India). We’re looking for a world-class Product Leader who shares our vision for a more curious and rational world and can evangelize our vision internally and externally. As a Director of Product Management at Alation you will be working to unlock the value of the data: help people to find, understand, and trust data that they already have. The ideal candidate will work on defining the strategic vision of the product, building and managing a team of PMs, and executing against the product roadmap.

In this particular role, you’ll be leading and expanding the Alation connectivity product team, responsible for how Alation’s Data Intelligence Platform integrates with hundreds of databases, business intelligence systems, file systems, ETL/ELT tools and more.

What you'll do:

• Define and articulate strategic direction and product roadmap across many stakeholders including external customers, sales, customer success, engineering and design.
• Be data-driven, creating and monitoring product and customer value metrics to make objective prioritization decisions
• Mentor and motivate your existing team members and bring new members onboard.
• Build cross-team relationships and processes to ensure your team collaborates well with the broader organization.
• Select and own outsourcing partner relationships
• Manage and communicate release schedules, goals, and dependencies internally and externally, partnering with customers, sales, customer success and marketing

You should have:

• 10+ years of hands-on product management experience - both outbound and inbound - in a fast-paced agile development environment
• 5+ years of management experience leading a group of PMs
• Self-starter with strong creative problem solving, facilitation and interpersonal skills
• Confident engaging with and presenting to management of major Fortune 500 companies across industries
• Hands-on domain experience in data catalog, data management /or analytics, including business intelligence and/or database systems
• Managed and led teams with broad strategic area of ownership for a product
• Skilled in discussing technical details with engineers & product design while also clearly communicating at a high level with leadership, sales marketing, and customers
• Platform experience not required by highly desirable (Connectors, API/SDKs, etc)
• Experience managing and leading partner engagement program for developing an ecosystem is highly desirable
• Deep understanding of cloud data ecosystems offered by platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus

You'll be a great fit if...

• You're passionate about making the world a more curious and rationale place, by creating products that help people explore data, ask questions and get reliable answers
• You're humble and thoughtful, but a vocal advocate for our users and customers able to fight for the course of action that the data and our values show is right
• You can just as easily argue for a product investment with an engineer as you could argue against an investment with a salesperson
• You have experience with SQL queries and principles of schema design

More About Alation
Our founders have come together from different backgrounds: business, engineering, and design. This unique mix from our founding team is important to the Alation culture story. Today, our team consists of creators and communicators with varied backgrounds - from Stanford, to the Indian Institute of Technology, big companies and one-person startups, the United States, and abroad. We continue to seek ever more diverse perspectives as we grow.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on
the basis of race, name, religion, color, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Why Alation?

• Market-Leading Data Catalog Provider
• High-growth, collaborative environment with diverse and inclusive teams
• Continuous learning, enrichment and development opportunities
• Competitive pay and health offerings including commuter benefits
• Flexible time off to relax and recharge and much, much more!