Principal Product Manager, AHV Virtualization Platform

As a Principal Product Manager for AHV, you will be directly involved and responsible for the core AHV hypervisor. With our most recent fiscal quarter, Nutanix reported that AHV is in use by 90+% of our customer base. AHV is also the core software platform for our Nutanix Clusters cloud solution, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, Nutanix Agentic AI, End User Computing, and more. AHV is the heartbeat of our hybrid cloud infrastructure platform.

You will contribute and own key marquis features on the platform, and drive and measure adoption success rates. In addition to a superior track record, analytical, and strategic skills, you will also display superior business judgment. This role will directly collaborate with core engineering, customers, SEs and sales, marketing, and many other teams at Nutanix.

About the Team

At Nutanix, you’ll be joining our dynamic Product Management team, a geo-dispersed group of innovative and collaborative professionals who are passionate about shaping the future of cloud computing. Our team thrives on creativity and openness, ensuring that every member’s ideas contribute to our mission of delivering exceptional products that empower our customers. We encourage diverse perspectives and foster an environment where collaboration is key to driving our strategic goals forward.

You will report to the VP of Product Management, who is dedicated to mentoring and guiding the team while promoting a high-performance culture. Our work setup is hybrid, which allows for flexibility; however, we do ask that team members come into the office three days a week to facilitate collaboration and enhance team synergy. Additionally, while travel is not a regular requirement, there may be occasions when it will be necessary to meet with stakeholders or customers in person, ensuring you have the opportunity to build those valuable connections.

Your Role

• Help define and execute roadmap for core AHV hypervisor development
• Regular customer outreach, collection, and synthesis of customer feedback into prioritized requirements.
• Create detailed market requirements documents (MRDs) and actionable product requirement documents (PRDs) for each release
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (product management, engineering, program management, support, marketing, etc.) to drive roadmap execution.
• Track, manage, and report on KPIs on an ongoing basis.
• Evangelize, provide customer advocacy and briefings to deliver and promote AHV messaging.
• Provide ongoing field support as needed to drive high customer satisfaction and engagement.
• Drive field and partner enablement in collaboration with marketing and enablement teams
• Author, build and maintain compelling internal and external facing collateral in organization with outbound teams

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field is strongly preferred. MBA nice to have.
• Direct experience or strong, demonstrated familiarity with the hardware virtualization ecosystem including one or more of the following: VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM, AWS EC2, GCP, Azure
• Experience with enterprise class customers
• 5+ years of product, engineering, and/or product management experience in enterprise data center products,virtualization, IaaS, cloud computing, or related offerings.
• Strong fundamentals in IaaS and virtualization including, but not limited to, virtual hardware and software, vGPU, guest OS compatibility, migration features, IO devices, API/CLI, CPU and NUMA, high availability, and the Linux kernel.
• Strong understanding of components of enterprise offerings and frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate, build and launch successful products
• Attention to detail in executing complex projects with cross-functional dependencies
• Strong organizational skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience in high-level business discussions
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to deliver on commitments in a multi geographic distributed team
• Strong problem solving and analytical thinking skills
• Aptitude to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• High energy and excellent teamwork skills
• Have a bias for action and demonstrate ownership for domain.

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between USD $ 195,000 and USD $ 391,000 per year.

However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.