Sr Product Manager, Platform

Who we are Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks. What you'll do Kentik is seeking a talented and passionate Sr Product Manager to join our team and support our entire Infrastructure Observability portfolio from a platform perspective. You will be driving the evolution of all platform capabilities that our entire portfolio relies on. Teaming up with all Product Managers within Kentik, you will define and execute the roadmap for all the platform features that power our comprehensive Core, Service Provider, Cloud, Synthetic Monitoring, Alerting and NMS product lines. This unique opportunity within the Product Management team calls for a versatile product management profile as it requires a healthy blend of Networking/Cloud domain knowledge, SaaS Platform Engineering, and more traditional product craft altogether. In this role, you will: Understand and map out platform requirements from both Customers and Product Managers, define the associated roadmap for the platform to support these, and work with both backend and frontend engineering teams to deliver them Act as Product Management’s main liaison with Platform engineering, teaming up with them to deliver next levels of scale, or unlock technology evolutions to enable future features in all lanes of our portfolio Roadmap and orchestrate the development of these new features, support their timely delivery and lifecycle, be the internal and customer champion who owns them Further define and strengthen Kentik’s API first strategy and drive evolutions that help our customers integrate Kentik more tightly into their infrastructure operations Partner with Kentik’s Engineering and Operations team to further productize and package our OnPrem vs SaaS platform deployments Own the strategy, lifecycle and roadmap for all of the company’s Telemetry agents Extend the breadth of Kentik’s platform capabilities in areas such as: topology, event management, external Internet datasets used for telemetry enrichment You don't only craft products - you deliver the accompanying vision and strive to deliver a compact yet clearly defined message to both customers and partners within the company What you'll bring Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you don’t match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role! 5+ years experience of Product Management or Engineering in one or more of these areas: Network Engineering, Network Management Systems, Network Performance Management, Network Performance/Monitoring, DDoS detection and mitigation Practitioner-level knowledge of standard networking technologies: TCP/IP, Routing, BGP, SNMP, Streaming Telemetry, Network Flow Monitoring Comfortable navigating deeply technical topics, such as networking protocols, large scale distributed systems, API management and Software Agents Excellent written and verbal communication, and ability to present ideas to technical and non-technical crowds Strong collaboration skills - you will need to communicate effectively with and orchestrate many other functions within the organization Well versed in the Engineering and Operational best practices for both Service Provider and Enterprise networks, and are able to naviga