Technical Product Manager (Virtualization)
Hi, we’re Nexthink. We’re not just the leader in the digital employee experience category, we invented the category. Our solutions combine real-time analytics, automation, and employee feedback across all endpoints to help IT teams delight people at work. Our cloud-native platform pinpoints issues and solutions, automates response, and helps companies continuously improve their employees’ experience, making them more productive, efficient, and happy at work.
Job Description
In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to utilize your deep, technical hands-on expertise to help shape a critical product, define its scope and guide its execution.
Your main duties will be:
- Work in close collaboration with the Principal Product Manager by helping to shape the Desktop Virtualization roadmap and features.
- Be the technical expert for Desktop Virtualization, and assist product, engineering, and support teams with your hands-on knowledge and experience.
- Analyze virtualization platforms, market trends, customer requirements. Distill your analysis into a set of very clear requirements that engineering can execute upon. Contribute to the setup of labs with virtualization vendors’ solutions, for functional and technical analysis.
- Assist with certifying our solution against Desktop Virtualization platforms.
- Help our customers and partners understand the value of our solution by assisting other teams in articulating our value proposition and differentiation.
- Define impressive demo scenarios that highlight our features and outcomes for internal enablement and customers.
- Be a team player and collaborator. Assist internal R&D and outbound marketing, presales, and sales teams with functional and technical insights, answer questions for RFPs, and help with proofs-of-concept.
Qualifications
- Solid technical background in Desktop Virtualization (on either Citrix, VMware, or Microsoft WVD) with hands-on expertise in planning, deployment, and ongoing operational tasks to be able to dive into complex virtualization technologies.
- VDI architect background in VMware, Citrix, or Microsoft WVD (highly valued). Experience with cloud-delivered desktops and apps (highly desired)
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain (oral and written) complex technical concepts to various audiences with different degrees of technical background.
- Comfortable in the weeds of technology but also must be able to see the big picture for framing product strategy and goals.
- Great ability to balance different workstreams while doing an effective job. Calm under pressure.
- Willingness to learn new processes in product definition, feature prioritization, and Agile management.
- A team-player who is genuinely interested in working collaboratively across the organization.
- Quality-oriented mindset.
- Proven ability to drive complex projects with minimal oversight, delivering results incrementally and pragmatically.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Previous exposure to building products (highly valued).
- Experience working in an Agile environment (highly valued).
Additional Information
This is an exceptional opportunity to join a fast-growing, successful, and innovative company.
Nexthink allows you to thrive in a unique work environment where the emphasis is on excellence, innovation, openness, and collaboration. We have millions of endpoints deployed, we’ve surpassed $100M in ARR, and we’ve recently secured $180M in Series D financing for a company valuation of $1.1B, but we’re just getting started!
At Nexthink, we believe actions are stronger than words when it comes to diversity, inclusivity, and equity in the workplace. Nexthinkers are multinational and multilingual, and come from all walks of life. We are committed to hiring a genuinely representative workforce that can create solutions and foster innovation for the modern digital employee experience.