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Principal Product Manager, Java Intelligence
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Europe, EU
Experience
Senior · 8+ years
Job description
Principal Product Marketing Manager for Azul's Java Intelligence portfolio, responsible for market strategy, positioning, messaging, go-to-market execution and commercial success across Azul Intelligence Cloud, Azul Optimizer Hub and Payara InSight. A highly visible individual contributor role translating complex technical capabilities into business value.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe, EU
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Drive business and product outcomes: define measures of success, monitor sales, pipeline, pilot-to-production conversion, adoption and retention, and adjust product direction based on data or customer feedback
- Shape product strategy: develop multi-year direction including differentiation, customer segments and use cases to prioritize, and where to build, partner or integrate
- Partner with executive leadership: report to the VP of Product Management and work closely with the CPO, CEO, CRO, CTO and other senior leaders, presenting strategies, roadmap recommendations, pricing considerations and business results
- Translate strategy into roadmap priorities: turn product strategy into clear, sequenced, achievable roadmap recommendations and build alignment with engineering, sales and marketing
- Develop pricing and packaging recommendations for Intelligence Cloud, Optimizer Hub as part of Azul Prime, and Payara InSight for Azul Payara customers
- Lead inbound product management activities: partner with engineering through requirements, design reviews, implementation decisions and release readiness; lead customer discovery and requirements sessions; provide direction on UX and UI priorities
- Contribute to customer-facing technical documentation and knowledge-base content, deliver product demonstrations, and evaluate product usability
- Lead outbound product management activities: partner with marketing on positioning, launches, sales enablement, competitive differentiation and customer-facing content; support strategic deals and escalations; conduct market and competitive research
- Build technical credibility: develop a working understanding of the technologies, including JVM architecture and operating principles such as JIT compilation and warm-up
What we're looking for
- 8+ years experience in product management, including several years owning a product or product line end to end — strategy through launch through revenue
- Track record shipping enterprise SaaS in an adjacent market: application performance monitoring, application security, observability, optimization, systems management, or log analytics
- Fluency with AI tools and experience operating in an AI-first product management organization
- Deep technical fluency — able to read an architecture diagram, follow an engineering debate, and ask the question that changes the answer
- Demonstrated ownership of pricing and packaging for a technical product, including cross-functional work to get a model approved and into market
- Understanding of DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and developers as key influencers in an enterprise sales cycle
- Strong domain knowledge of public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English — equally effective with an engineer and with a Fortune 100 CIO
- Comfortable in a fully remote, async, multi-time-zone setup: self-directed and a strong writer
- Comfortable in a startup-shaped environment where bringing order to chaos is part of the job
Nice to have
- Hands-on software or quality engineering background — have written code and debugged production systems
- Experience with open source communities
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimization: how compute is provisioned, monitored, and optimized
- Experience taking a new product from early traction to a durable revenue line
- Working knowledge of Java and Java development tooling
- Familiarity with Jakarta EE application servers (Payara, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss) and OpenTelemetry
- Experience working across more than one product at once, especially products at different stages or sold through different motions
- Experience with infrastructure software that customers deploy and operate themselves, not just SaaS
Your team
Product Management
Reports to the VP of Product Management and works closely with the CPO, CEO, CRO, CTO and other senior leaders.
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About Azul
Azul provides Java intelligence and observability solutions that help enterprises optimize, secure and modernize their Java environments. Its portfolio includes Azul Intelligence Cloud, Azul Optimizer Hub, Payara InSight, Azul Prime and Azul Core.
Key facts
- Java platform and software
- Azul Optimizer Hub ships as part of Azul Prime
- Azul Intelligence Cloud's JVM Inventory supports Azul Core Oracle migration initiatives
- Employment is contingent upon the completion of reference and background checks
What they value
- Maniacal Customer Focus
- Innovation & Excellence
- Initiative & Courage
- Impact & Influence
- Integrity & Transparency
- Diversity, Inclusion & Teamwork