Staff Product Manager, Virtual Platforms
Job description
Staff Product Manager, Virtual Platforms
Location: Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)
About Rubrik
Rubrik is one of the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley, revolutionizing data protection and management in the emerging multi-cloud world. We are a one-of-a-kind company with a one-of-a-kind purpose, inspiring passion and drive in team members around a meaningful purpose of securing the world's data. What we do truly matters and our team members have unlimited potential and endless possibilities for growth. We provide you with the tools, resources, and mentorship you need to develop your skills and reach new career heights. Unleash your full potential and make a lasting impact on the world.
About the Product Management Team
The Product Management team at Rubrik drives forward Rubrik's vision, ensuring we continue to deliver on our market-leading platform as we address our customers' most challenging data management and security needs. Within this organization, the Platforms team owns the foundational layers — hardware, virtual on-premises platforms, and APIs — that underpin every product we sell.
About the Role
Rubrik is looking for a strategic, technically deep Staff Product Manager to own Rubrik's virtual offerings — Rubrik Edge and Rubrik Virtual Cluster. These are Rubrik delivered as software, running on infrastructure our customers already operate, deployed today across thousands of sites worldwide.
This is a portfolio role: multiple products, distinct installed bases and buying motions, and the opportunity to shape them into one coherent product line. You will own the strategy and roadmap across the portfolio, the virtualization and storage ecosystems underpinning these products, and the standards by which they are qualified, deployed, and supported.
Virtualization maximizes customer choice in compute and storage, and flexibility trades against control. The more freedom customers have in how they build, the more deliberate we must be about our commitments and how we validate them — and working that trade-off well is the essential challenge of the role.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the virtual offerings portfolio, ensuring the products reinforce one another
- Own the virtualization platform roadmap — where and how Rubrik's software runs — prioritizing new platforms against customer demand and the engineering investment each one requires
- Own the storage ecosystem: qualification standards, partner engagement, and joint go-to-market, so customers can deploy on storage they already own
- Define the deployment, qualification, and supportability standards for software-only deployments across customer-owned infrastructure
- Own the commercial case for the portfolio, including pricing and positioning, and present it to executive leadership to secure approval and resources
- Drive AI into how these products are evaluated, deployed, and operated
- Partner with and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders — including Engineering, Alliances, Sales Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and Support — to align vision across business units
- Represent the portfolio externally to customers, partners, and the field
- Act as a mentor and role model for other Product Managers, driving clarity in the face of ambiguity cross-functionally
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of product management experience, with significant experience in platform or infrastructure product roles
- Demonstrated success in owning and managing the strategy and execution of multiple, high-impact products simultaneously
- Broad knowledge of the enterprise virtualization landscape and its major vendors and flavors — VMware, Nutanix, Microsoft, Red Hat, Proxmox, and the wider KVM ecosystem. Hands-on product experience across many of them preferred
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container platforms, and judgment about product form factor — how delivering software as a virtual machine versus a container changes deployment, upgrade, and support. Highly desirable
- Working knowledge of enterprise storage across both delivery models — purpose-built shared arrays and software-defined storage — including S3-compatible object interfaces, Object Lock and immutability semantics, and how failure domains and data locality affect application behavior
- Experience defining storage qualification standards — performance criteria and conformance testing — rather than maintaining a vendor-by-vendor support list
- Experience shipping AI-driven product capabilities, with judgment about where AI meaningfully changes a workflow
- Business acumen and the ability to build business cases, communicate effectively with professionally done presentations and write-ups, influence others, and measure success
- Ability to lead without authority
- BS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience; MBA or Masters in Engineering preferred
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The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US Pay Range$175,500—$263,300 USD
Join Us in Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation
Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.
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Inclusion @ Rubrik
At Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world’s data.
Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.
Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:
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Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.
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Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.
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Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Rubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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