Senior Product Manager- Chef at Progress Software in Seattle, WA

We’re Progress – we offer the best platform for building and deploying tomorrow’s applications quickly and easily. We are bold, forward-thinking innovators who build things that work and care about our customers. We invent and reinvent every day, work together as one, value and respect each other and cheer our wins. Join us as a Senior Product Manager for our Chef product group in our Seattle WA location. For the right person we are also open to other parts of the United State and working from your home office.

JOB SUMMARY:

Chef Software (now part of Progress Software Corporation) is the industry leader in IT automation and DevOps solutions. We are a dynamic and rapidly growing software company with a strong sense of dedication to our customers and the Chef community. We work hard but try not to take ourselves too seriously. This is a very collaborative and inclusive work environment. Individuals strong on aptitude and attitude will have an opportunity to grow their professional careers through working with some of the most advanced technology and talented developers in the business. We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits, and a professional yet relaxed atmosphere.

With our Chef product group, we develop the world's best products for managing applications and infrastructure at scale. We deploy them against real problems in all kinds of industries. We're writing the rules of the cloud -- rules the world's top engineers live, breathe and contribute to. Our platform is used to enable hundreds of millions of people around the world to chat, fly, present, bank, game, shop, and learn. Chances are the web applications you use every day are built, deployed, secured, and run with our technologies.

WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS ROLE:

• Responsibilities: Understand our market and competitors
• Help define the vision and strategy for the next-generation automation stack Research, understand, and represent the voice of the customer through frequent interactions with customers and the field
• Work closely with others at Chef: engineering, documentation, marketing, sales, and customer experience
• Break down complex problems into steps that drive iterative product development
• Be accountable for building the right product features to support business goals, strategy, and excite customers
• Developing product strategy that aligns with Chef's broader mission and strategy, drawing from deep customer insights, data, and research
• Lead cross-functional and full-stack teams of engineers and UX designers to deliver new features that contribute to joint goals and initiatives
• Partner and collaborate effectively on joint initiatives across product, marketing, operations, sales, and engineering
• Clearly communicate product plans, strategy and results, as appropriate, to a spectrum of audiences, from senior leadership to all Chef employees and customers
• Define, refine, and prioritize epics and stories while working in a fast-paced lean/agile environment as part of a larger product team working on joint initiatives and epics

WHAT THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL NEED TO HAVE:

• Experience building Cloud Infrastructure or PaaS products OR Experience building Security & Compliance platforms (VM Ware, MobileIron, Anyconnect, etc...) would be a great advantage
• Experience building products created for Developers (ex: AWS/Azure/GCP, Kinvey, any API based large enterprise products)
• Has been a developer for 3-4 years in one or more of these categories - API/SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/DevOps/Web full-stack
• Has functional knowledge of one of the cloud service provides – AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform (GCP)/Oracle Cloud OR Has functional knowledge of desktop/cloud security and compliance – CIS Benchmarks/HIPPA/SOC2/ DISA STIG