Senior Director, Product & India Site Lead Product Management

Senior Director, Product & India Site Lead Product Management 

 

Location: Bangalore,India

About The Team:

At Rubrik, our Product Management team is at the forefront of defining the strategy and driving execution to strengthen our leading platform for cyber-resilience. We are  dedicated to meeting the ever-changing data management and security needs of our customers and wear multiple hats throughout the different stages in the product lifecycle and set the vision for our growing family of products. As advocates for both our users and our business, Product Managers balance varied perspectives and empower their teams to do great work.

About our Bangalore Office:

Unlike many global technology companies, Rubrik’s Bangalore office is a true innovation hub. For products built in India, including some of the highest growth products in the portfolio, we collocate product, design, and engineering to quickly iterate and holistically own products for the global market. With over 1,000 employees in Bangalore, 50% of engineering, and nearly 30% of Product, our office, culture, and quality of work make our India site a massive competitive advantage for Rubrik. Our Bangalore office arguably has the highest quality of people and shoulders the highest level of global responsibility for a global company out of any Eng/PM site in India.

About the Role:

Reporting to Rubrik’s Chief Product Officer, as Senior Director, Product Management, you will be a pivotal leader in shaping the future of Rubrik's Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) portfolio, globally driving both strategic it’s product vision and execution. EDP is Rubrik’s largest line of business which currently brings in more than 50% of our revenue. In addition, you will act as the Site Leader for the Product Management team in Bangalore, offering the unique opportunity to build and mentor a product team in India that drives new innovation across the entire product portfolio of Rubrik from data protection to security to AI.

You will have significant autonomy to define and drive the EDP strategy, directly impacting global growth and market share in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving industry that sits at the intersection of data, security, and AI. If you are an exceptional people leader with a passion for deep product execution and a collaborative spirit, this is the chance to make a substantial impact on Rubrik's continued success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Vision & Strategy : Define and execute the product strategy for the Enterprise Data Protection portfolio, globally owning and driving its direction and execution autonomously & collaboratively. 
• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, inspire, and mentor a high-performing product team in Bangalore, fostering an inclusive culture, ensuring high engagement, raising the bar on hiring, and providing effective coaching and mentorship. Directly manage a global team of 11 PMs, including two directors, supporting the EDP portfolio. Dotted-line manage 15 additional PMs in Bangalore supporting every aspect of our portfolio. 
• Market & Customer Insight: Drive product strategy and execution to accelerate market share growth from legacy backup players and innovate across database, VM, and unstructured data protection on-premises based on clear hypotheses, direct customer interactions, and market-driven analysis.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate deeply and align with product, engineering, sales, marketing, and other functional groups, managing expectations and priorities effectively within a fast-paced and competitive environment. Ensure that products in the portfolio maximize their commercial and business impact for Rubrik.
• Innovation & Growth: Manage the business of EDP, monitoring and creating plans around all key business metrics from pipeline to ACV closed, to retention and engagement. Contribute to achieving Rubrik's long-term vision, particularly in the hybrid cloud large enterprise market for data, security, and AI.
• Site Leadership: Partner directly with Rubrik’s India MD to provide strong leadership on the ground in Bangalore, building a deep culture of cohesion and east-west collaboration across multiple product lines within the India PM team and continuing to attract and retain top-tier PM talent.

 What we are looking for:

• Exceptional People Leadership: Must be an exceptionally strong people leader, and deeply passionate about creating inclusive and high-performing team cultures, with demonstrated success in coaching and mentoring senior product leaders. Experience managing teams of 10+ Product Managers and first line managers.
• Product Strategy & Execution: Capable of both rolling up sleeves for deep product execution and articulating a broad 10,000-foot vision for the product area. Proven ability to define and drive product strategy for externally monetizable products.
• Strong Communication & Collaboration: Deeply collaborative with strong communication skills, able to align and manage expectations across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and other functional groups.
• High Standards for Product Managers: Possesses a very high bar for expectations from product managers and a commitment to raising the bar on hiring.
• Business Acumen: Experience managing the business of a product area, monitoring key metrics (pipeline, ACV, retention, engagement) and creating plans to drive growth.
• Market Understanding: Ability to drive product strategy and execution to win market share from competitors and innovate based on clear hypotheses and market-driven analysis (specifically in data protection across database, VM, and unstructured data on-premises).
• Previous Experience in Silicon Valley (Highly Preferred): Understands the Silicon Valley ethos of enterprise B2B product management. Proven success building businesses to hundreds of millions in scale. 

 

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