Understand and map out platform requirements from both Customers and Product Managers, define the associated roadmap for the platform to support these, and work with both backend and frontend engineering teams to deliver them
Act as Product Management’s main liaison with Platform engineering, teaming up with them to deliver next levels of scale, or unlock technology evolutions to enable future features in all lanes of our portfolio
Roadmap and orchestrate the development of these new features, support their timely delivery and lifecycle, be the internal and customer champion who owns them
Further define and strengthen Kentik’s API first strategy and drive evolutions that help our customers integrate Kentik more tightly into their infrastructure operations
Partner with Kentik’s Engineering and Operations team to further productize and package our OnPrem vs SaaS platform deployments
Own the strategy, lifecycle and roadmap for all of the company’s Telemetry agents
Extend the breadth of Kentik’s platform capabilities in areas such as: topology, event management, external Internet datasets used for telemetry enrichment
You don't only craft products
you deliver the accompanying vision and strive to deliver a compact yet clearly defined message to both customers and partners within the company

5+ years experience of Product Management or Engineering in one or more of these areas: Network Engineering, Network Management Systems, Network Performance Management, Network Performance/Monitoring, DDoS detection and mitigation
Practitioner-level knowledge of standard networking technologies: TCP/IP, Routing, BGP, SNMP, Streaming Telemetry, Network Flow Monitoring
Comfortable navigating deeply technical topics, such as networking protocols, large scale distributed systems, API management and Software Agents
Excellent written and verbal communication, and ability to present ideas to technical and non-technical crowds
Strong collaboration skills
you will need to communicate effectively with and orchestrate many other functions within the organization
Well versed in the Engineering and Operational best practices for both Service Provider and Enterprise networks, and are able to navigate their specificities
Ability to drive project independently
our staff is geographically distributed, and our employees need to be able to map out steps towards a successful future target
Creative and curious mindset
you exhibit constant technical curiosity, you like ideating and prototyping iteratively using any tool at hand: code, sql queries, spreadsheets, presentation and don’t shy away from technology-heavy problems

100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
Paid family & medical leave
Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
401(k) retirement account
Home office reimbursement
Stock options

Senior Product Manager, Platform

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