director product marketing - Schooner Information Technology

Hiring firm: Schooner Information Technology

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Company description:

Schooner Information Technologies is a well funded "early stage"
startup
located in Menlo Park. Schooner has a revolutionary solution to data
access that provides significant improvement in scalability,
affordability, and increased performance on a substantial scale to the
customer. IDC sees the market opportunity for this technology to be in
excess of 5 billion dollars per annum. Our management team comes from
such firms as Pathscale, Sun, HP, and Clarity Software. Our firm will
have a substantial impact on the computer industry and we are looking
for highly intelligent, common sense, senior marketing professionals
who
truly want to make a difference in the industry. Our breakthrough
technology, as well as our highly experienced management group offers
high caliber individuals the opportunity to move both their career and
technical expertise forward.


Job description:

Director, Product Management

We are looking for a talented and experienced senior marketing
professional who has diverse experience in marketing to take on the role of
Director of Product Management. If you like to work in an entrepreneurial
environment where things happen fast and you see the direct impact of
your contribution, if you like to start your own company some day and
want to gain that first hand experience of helping to grow a company,
and if you like to work on cutting edge technology when what you work on
today becomes a new industry category later on, join us.


Responsibilities

- You will be responsible to lead the effort of defining Schooner's
product portfolio, solution offerings, and long term roadmap
- Develop an internal new product introduction process that's
appropriate for Schooner. Drive product requirements definition. Work with
founders, engineering team and other internal teams to develop product
strategies and manage the product development process from conceptual
stages through product life cycles. You will also play a leadership role in
the go-to-market and launch efforts.

- Develop close relationships with customers and technology partners.
Collect ongoing customer feedback on how Schooner products are being
used and provide feedback to internal teams and incorporate feedback into
product development.

- Identify new product ideas and improvements. Build the appropriate
business case to justify the investment.


Requirements:

- Prefer educational background from top tier schools, also extensive
background working with middle sized software firms / software startups
successfully
- Must exhibit clearly "out of the box" thinking in past positions,
Highly skilled in both tactical and strategic skills critical
- 10+ years of product management experience. - Must have extensive
experience marketing to data centers, including the Web 2.0 space
- Extensive experience with either appliances, systems Software, or OS
products
- Broad experience in other marketing, customer facing, and general
business related functional areas such as product marketing, business
development, and SE highly desired.
- Solid track record getting products released successfully to market
- Enthusiastic, performance-driven self-starter and a team player.
- Ideal candidate would have BSCS, BSEE. MBA preferred.

Schooner Information Technology offers a highly competitive salary as
well as top of the line benefits. We offer a lucrative "equity package"

in our firm as well. We are seeking highly skilled individuals who
truly want to be part of something special in the industry.

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