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AzulSenior Director, Product Management
Azul is hiring a Senior Director, Product Management to lead the product team for Azul Prime, which is the company's high-performance Java Virtual Machine. This position…
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Azul is hiring a Senior Director, Product Management to lead the product team for Azul Prime, which is the company's high-performance Java Virtual Machine. This position operates in a player-coach capacity, requiring you to manage product managers while directly owning market strategy, pricing decisions, and high-level customer interactions. You will be accountable for the overall market success, financial growth, and pipeline conversion of Prime. In this position, you will establish…
Job Description
Azul is hiring a Senior Director, Product Management to lead the product team for Azul Prime, which is the company's high-performance Java Virtual Machine. This position operates in a player-coach capacity, requiring you to manage product managers while directly owning market strategy, pricing decisions, and high-level customer interactions. You will be accountable for the overall market success, financial growth, and pipeline conversion of Prime.
In this position, you will establish multi-year directions, partner closely with executive leadership including the Chief Product Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Technology Officer, and drive go-to-market execution alongside sales and marketing departments. You will handle roadmap planning, scope prioritization, and product packaging, ensuring the platform efficiently addresses customer cloud costs, warm-up times, and latency at scale.
This opportunity is well-suited for an experienced product leader with a strong technical background in developer infrastructure, runtime environments, and public cloud architectures. Candidates should possess extensive expertise in Java Virtual Machine principles, compilation mechanics, and garbage collection. The organization provides an environment geared toward autonomous execution, collaboration across multiple global time zones, and direct engagement with enterprise engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage market outcomes including new business generation, pipeline growth, pilot conversions, and overall client retention for Azul Prime
- Establish the multi-year product strategy, segment focus, and long-term roadmap while balancing build-versus-partner trade-offs
- Partner with executive leadership to present strategic, roadmap, and pricing proposals backed by data
- Collaborate with sales, marketing, and customer success teams to shape go-to-market motions, target accounts, and pitch strategies
- Design and implement pricing, packaging, and metering models for Prime and Optimizer Hub
- Hire, mentor, and direct the product management team, establishing rigorous standards for written strategy and customer-driven planning
- Engage directly with engineering during sprints, design reviews, and architectural trade-off evaluations
- Conduct competitive market research and partner with marketing on product positioning, launches, and sales enablement
Requirements
- Minimum of 15 years of professional experience in engineering or product roles with a history of scaling products to revenue
- At least 10 years working in product management with end-to-end ownership spanning strategy, launch, and revenue generation
- Minimum of 5 years of experience managing, hiring, and developing product management teams
- Demonstrated background in shipping enterprise infrastructure, developer software, application performance tools, or language runtimes
- Practical knowledge of Java Virtual Machine architecture, garbage collection, and Just-In-Time compilation
- Proven ownership of pricing and packaging strategies for technical products
- Familiarity with public cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP, alongside Kubernetes
- Proficiency with artificial intelligence tools used in everyday product management workflows
- Fluency in English with strong written and verbal communication skills tailored for audiences ranging from engineers to CIOs
- Ability to operate autonomously in a fully remote, asynchronous, multi-time-zone setup
Qualifications
- Hands-on software engineering, coding, or quality engineering background with experience debugging production systems
- Familiarity with open source community dynamics and software licensing models
- Experience scaling a product from initial market traction to consistent, durable revenue streams
- History of leading multiple products concurrently across different stages of maturity or go-to-market motions
- Experience with infrastructure software that customers self-host and operate
- Working knowledge of Java language and development tooling
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Advanced degrees or relevant professional certifications
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Benefits
- Comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages
- Referral program
- Paid time off, company shutdowns, and holidays
- Remote-first work environment focused on work-life balance
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Is this position remote?
Yes, this is a fully remote role set up for asynchronous work across multiple time zones, ideally based in Europe or the EU such as Prague, Czech Republic or Limassol, Cyprus.
What is the salary for this role?
The salary for this position is not stated in the source posting.
What level of experience is required?
The posting requires 15 plus years in engineering or product roles, at least 10 years in product management with end-to-end product ownership, and a minimum of 5 years managing product management teams.
What background knowledge of Java or JVM is necessary?
Candidates must be able to develop a deep working knowledge of Java Virtual Machine architecture, including Just-In-Time compilation, garbage collection, and warm-up principles.
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