Director, Product Management — Infrastructure Automation

Perforce Software is hiring a Director, Product Management to lead product management for its infrastructure automation business. The role owns the platform’s vision, strategy, and roadmap, leads a team of senior product managers, and partners across the company to drive adoption, retention, and growth.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the platform, aligned with Perforce portfolio direction and business goals
• Identify and prioritize investments across the core business and new opportunities, including where AI can change what the platform is responsible for in customers’ infrastructure operations
• Establish clear outcomes and success metrics for every major initiative, and hold the team accountable to measurable customer and business results
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 5–6 senior product managers, setting clear ownership and a high bar for quality
• Build a culture of discovery, evidence-based decision making, and clear communication, including surfacing risks and bad news early
• Hire and retain top product talent, and add specialist skills where the problem demands them
• Oversee the product development lifecycle from discovery through launch and post-release outcome review, partnering with Engineering to deliver on commitments
• Ensure problems are validated with customers before significant build investment, and that features ship with the instrumentation needed to measure their effect, including in on-premise deployments
• Drive cross-functional alignment on release planning, packaging, pricing, and go-to-market readiness
• Engage directly with customers, partners, and the open source and DevOps community to understand needs and validate direction
• Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Support to turn customer signal into roadmap decisions and to ensure customers realize the business value they bought
• Track the competitive landscape and analyst perspectives, and shape the product’s positioning and differentiation in the market
• Evaluate emerging technologies and trends in infrastructure automation, security, compliance, and AI-assisted operations
• Represent the product externally as a thought leader at industry events, with customers, and with analysts
• Identify partnership, ecosystem, and build/buy opportunities that strengthen the product’s long-term position

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in product management, with at least 3 years in a leadership role within the DevOps, cloud, or software development space
• Proven track record of delivering complex enterprise software solutions from concept to launch
• Extensive experience managing and growing product teams, with a demonstrated ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams
• Strong background in Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and working closely with engineering teams
• Exceptional strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities
• Strong technical acumen, with the ability to collaborate with engineering teams on architectural and technical discussions
• Deep understanding of DevOps practices, including configuration management, infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous integration and delivery, and containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Expertise in product lifecycle management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Aha!)
• Strong customer-centric mindset with an ability to understand market needs and translate them into actionable product solutions
• Demonstrated experience defining and shipping AI-powered product capabilities (for example generative AI or agentic automation), including how they are evaluated, governed, and measured in production
• Experience leading product managers in an AI-enabled product management operating model, where AI is used across discovery, specification, and delivery, and every artifact still has a named human owner accountable for its quality
• Experience with Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, or similar infrastructure automation platforms
• Experience with open-source business models and on-premise and hybrid enterprise deployments
• Experience selling to or building compliance and security-driven buyers
• Experience bringing AI into infrastructure operations, such as AI-assisted authoring, remediation, or compliance, and a point of view on how AI changes what an automation product is responsible for
• Familiarity with AI product risks: accuracy and evaluation, guardrails and human approval, data privacy, and customer trust in on-premise and regulated environments
• Experience building or adopting an AI PM operating model: defined agent roles, evidence standards, review gates, and measures of the team's speed and quality of learning
• Proven leadership presence with the ability to influence and engage at all levels of the organization
• Highly collaborative with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Passionate about DevOps, automation, and delivering high-value products that solve real-world customer problems