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Open P6The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?VMware is looking for a Product Manager to join the Modern Applications Platform Business Unit (MAPBU) product team with a focus on the Tanzu Developer Experience. VMware customers are increasingly deploying containers as thefoundation of their application modernization efforts. The MAPBU team delivers best-in-class enterprise cloud-native solutions – supporting container frameworks such as Kubernetes.The Tanzu team is chartered with providing application teams with a “native” Kubernetes experience that complements our existing Tanzu Application Service offering. As a member of this fast-paced, startup-like team, you will have the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to the product roadmap while developing skills in cutting-edge technologies. You will be part of an action-oriented team that has a culture of open communication, empowerment, innovation, teamwork, and customer success.What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?Your mission will be to lead an open source aligned team, focused on building on the vision of the project, growing brand awareness for VMware and driving valuable upstream contributions for our users. You will be working cross-functionally with user experience, engineering and commercial teams to create innovative solutions that supports the Tanzu Application Platform.Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?+ You will be defining and driving the Streaming product definition, roadmap, and direction of the open source project+ You will be leveraging your expert knowledge to convey how company's assets can be leveraged to deliver on company strategy for this area of focus+ Bring to bear domain expertise, market trends to formulate problem statements to create a product strategy that leverages company assets+ Provides collaboration across teams to support the execution of a go to market strategy+ You will be contributing to producing a clear MVP definition and roadmap and working collaboratively with design and engineering to execute on it through proper prioritization+ You will be working to bring the customer and their needs closer to the development team through research, customer engagements and involving customers in the incremental progress of the development teamWhat type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?+ Take a large problem which has been broken down into smaller chunks and further define the problem space+ Obsessed with users and the open source community, able to use a variety of strategies, processes and tools to understand their needs+ Capable of maintaining a positive and flexible attitude+ 6+ years of experience as a product manager, technical product marketing, technical marketing, systems engineer or experience working in a customer environment as an architect or senior practitioner+ Ability to understand complex systems at a technical level+ Familiarity with popular programming languages and frameworks+ Understanding of agile software development methodologies and tools+ Strong propensity to drive for results as part of a high performing team+ Experience working with Kubernetes and open source is a plusWhat is leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?The team and leadership is made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds (on Open Source and Commercial Products) who are excited about delivering innovative offerings to enable Tanzu's largest customers to build, run, and manage modern applications.**Category :** Marketing**Subcategory:** Product Management**Experience:** Business Leadership**Full Time/ Part Time:** Full Time**Posted Date:** 2022-04-01VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. 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