We are looking for someone to:
Own and drive the next major evolution of our Dedicated DNS product, effectively transmuting software as a service to software
Be the subject matter expert for the development and iterative launches of our product, interacting with our teams across the full product delivery lifecycle
Use your experience delivering licensed enterprise software products in the infrastructure, hosting, or other technical spaces
Bring strong instincts on the needs of our – technical, sophisticated buyers at at some of the largest companies on the planet
Role Responsibilities:
Own the product vision and deliverables through the go-to-market process
Focus on the strategy, execution, and development for on-premise software solution
Achieve a thorough overview of required projects for phased delivery and work closely with teams to ensure comprehensive delivery to end customers
Work with our engineering and product organizations to provide crucial user perspectives, as well as collaborate on the launch process with marketing and customer success
Meeting & talking to key prospects/customers in order to further a deep understanding of their needs
Accurately evaluate customers’ strategic business issues, identify requirements, create business case justifications, and propose appropriate enterprise solutions
Analyze current and future use cases for customer environments, anticipating business and technology trends and aligning roadmap accordingly
Recommend strategy and document implementation best practices, methodologies, and cost models; also required is ability to work with marketing to facilitate creation of tools, templates and other tools to support best practices
Be passionate about technology and be able to dive deep into NS1’s tech stack and architecture in order to better understand the how and why of the products we’re building
Role Requirements:
5+ years working with software delivery teams
Demonstrable experience going to market with a new product at an established business
Past ownership of scoping, development, delivery, and continued roadmap and evolution of a software/virtual appliance product
Able to dig in when required, e.g. consultative role components like assisting or overseeing an on-site install for a key client
Experience working on highly technical products that are focused on mission critical backend systems – preferred experience managing software or physical/virtual appliance products with heavy database, networking, and operational components
Understanding of the channel ecosystem, optionally has experience managing those key relationships or acting as SME to Head of Channel/Bizdev
Relevant Technologies:
Our globally distributed platform is comprised of many subsystems including:
Custom built DNS software that’s deployed on physical hardware and an anycasted network that spans nearly 30 facilities globally
REST API, and Portal
Deployment automation, CI/CD, unit/integration testing
Monitoring, metrics collection and alerting
Traffic load balancing, filtering, and DDoS mitigation tools
Messaging, persistent DB and caching systems
Other technologies and integrations include:
Linux, Ansible, Docker & other container platforms
BGP, BPF/IPTables, SDN
MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, SQL
Python (Twisted), Bash, C, C++14, React, Redux, D3
Hadoop/HDFS/OpenTSDB, Grafana, Bosun
Integrations with third party SaaS, APIs, and libraries, various Open Source projects including REST API clients and integrations
