Senior Product Manager

Redgate’s Database Monitoring solution is used by thousands of organisations to manage database performance & availability. In 2024 we began helping customers with important related challenges around database security, and are seeking a Senior Product Manager to help us achieve our long-term vision & growth in that area.

As a Senior Product Manager you’ll be responsible for growing our presence in the Database Security Monitoring market, including deeply understanding customer & market needs, defining the strategy, evolving the product, and ensuring its successful commercialisation. You will be working with senior stakeholders, defining and executing the product vision and its overall direction.

Achieving work-life balance has never been more important and so Redgate has adopted a flexible-hybrid model. For this role, we are seeking candidates near our Cambridge, UK office.

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Your Work at Redgate Software:

· Evolve the strategy for Redgate’s security monitoring business, including a compelling vision for how it will solve real customer problems along with underlying commercial plans, ensuring that the strategy is communicated and effectively implemented across the organization.

· Working with the Chief Product Officer and Group Product Managers to ensure that the product achieves key objectives and align with company direction – taking ownership of specific initiatives to improve outcomes.

· Take ownership of Redgate’s commercial outcomes and customers’ success, proactively identifying and executing on ways to improve these.

· Collaborate with other Product Managers to ensure that products provide complementary added value, strengthening the wider portfolio offering.

· Partner with the product Technical Lead and Designer to deliver a high-quality, sustainable product roadmap to drive good commercial outcomes.

· Partner with the Product Marketing Manager on positioning, pricing, packaging and go to market plans.

· Role model and drive customer centricity in your team. Evaluate the impact of product changes on customers (eg value, time to value, NPS) and respond with agility.

· Work as part of the product management team to support portfolio level decisions and flow of information across the company.

· Act as a product evangelist and liaise with marketing, sales, and finance on key opportunities and go-to-market plans. Drive customer engagement to ensure commercial success of the products.

· Develop growth opportunities beyond current markets for products by constantly looking for new areas where either existing product can be expanded, or an adjacent product could be created.

· Stay up to date with relevant market requirements, our competitors, and the evolving role of our target customers.

· Act as a mentor to less experienced Product Managers, and more widely as an advocate for good product management practice.

What You Bring to the Table:

· Past experience working with database security or working on IT security products, with a good understanding of the challenges around securing IT environments

· Product Management experience, preferably in the B2B Software space, capable of tackling complex product management problems with high autonomy

· Customer and commercially minded, providing the best solutions for our customers

· Analytical mindset and ability to use data to drive decision-making

· Proven market research and competitive analysis skills

· Excited by solving complex problems and taking risks

· Proven success developing and implementing inspiring product strategies and driving product roadmaps which deliver good commercial outcomes

· Experience working within an agile environment and user driven product development – proven ability to break strategy down to enable fast experimentation, learning and delivery of incremental value, to achieve commercial goals

· Proven ability to work with senior decision makers, able to effectively challenge and influence

· Has the technical proficiency to exercise effective influence over Product direction, including effective negotiation with senior technical stakeholders

· Enthusiastic and confident when talking to customers, able to influence external stakeholders effectively from users to senior decision makers

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to explain and translate complex needs/concepts into clear and effective plans that are well understood by relevant audiences

· A high degree of customer empathy and a world-class ability to ask the right questions.

· Motivated and capable of acting as a coach & mentor to support development of less experienced colleagues.

Who You Are:

· Key skills are a mix of customer empathy and a world-class ability to ask the right questions.

· You have domain understanding of the challenges around managing database security.

· You are a self-starter, autonomous and can exercise credible judgement and decision making

• Aligned with Redgate’s Core Values.

Tools: to name a few

· Like the rest of Redgate, much of our day-to-day collaboration relies on tools like Slack, Zoom, Mural, Office 365.

· Product managers also routinely use (among other tools) GitHub, Confluence, UserVoice, SurveyMonkey, Salesforce, Zendesk, PowerBI.

Impact Plan:

• 30 Days – focus on understanding the team, product, customers, and your role

• 60 Days – begin taking responsibility for steering the direction of teams & products you work with

• 90 Days – up and running in your role and team!

Salary:

• £70K- £90K dependent upon experience

Read more about how Redgate structures the Product Management team.