Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager — Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Location:Remote in Europe / EMEA Department:Product Management Employment type:Contractor or full-time, depending on your location Cobalt Streamworks is a leader in infrastructure system software for AI. We offer an optimized operating system, orchestration, and management to service providers, SaaS companies, and the enterprise. Cobalt Streamworks provides mainframe-like performance, reliability, and security while dramatically lowering overall cost and complexity. Our technology helps customers build, monetize, and operate cloud services on their own infrastructure, under their own brand, and on their own terms. Across virtualization, cloud management, storage, Kubernetes, automation, and infrastructure services, Cobalt Streamworks enables cloud providers and businesses to launch modern IaaS, PaaS, XaaS, and multi-cloud services with greater control, efficiency, and commercial flexibility. The Role: We are looking for a Senior Product Managerto help shape the future of the Cobalt Streamworks product suite, including virtualization, cloud management platforms, and infrastructure solutions for CSP, MSP, and SME markets. This is a high-impact role for someone who combines strong product judgment, technical depth, market awareness, and customer empathy. You will work closely with engineering, sales, marketing, support, and customer-facing teams to define what we build, why we build it, how we position it, and how it creates measurable value for customers. This is not a pure backlog-management role. We are looking for someone who can think strategically, engage deeply with technical customers, understand infrastructure markets, make clear prioritization decisions, and turn product direction into execution. What You’ll Be Doing Drive product strategy for the Cobalt Streamworks product suite, including virtualization, cloud management platforms, and infrastructure solutions for CSP, MSP, and SME markets. Develop a comprehensive product roadmapthat aligns with company business objectives, customer needs, market opportunities, and Cobalt Streamworks ’s broader platform direction. Engage with key customers and stakeholdersto gather insights, validate product hypotheses, and refine strategies to address market demands. Collaborate closely with engineering, marketing, sales, and support teamsto ensure successful execution of product launches, feature iterations, and market positioning. Lead market analysisto identify trends, opportunities, and competitive threats, ensuring Cobalt Streamworks is positioned to capitalize on new technologies and shifts in the market. Define and implement pricing models and value propositionsthat drive customer adoption and revenue growth while maintaining a competitive edge in the market. Work on cross-product initiativesto create a seamless experience across the Cobalt Streamworks ecosystem, including integrations with third-party tools and emerging technologies. You will also help connect product strategy to real customer outcomes: faster cloud service launches, lower infrastructure cost, better operational efficiency, improved monetization for service providers, and a simpler experience across the Cobalt Streamworks platform. What You Bring 5+ years of product management experiencein cloud infrastructure, virtualization, cloud management platforms, infrastructure software, hosting, telco cloud, MSP/CSP platforms, or adjacent technical domains. Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure technologies such asvirtualization, KVM, OpenStack, Kubernetes, software-defined storage, networking, orchestration, automation, or cloud management platforms. Experience building product strategy and roadmaps for technical B2B products used by infrastructure teams, service providers, managed service providers, enterprises, or SaaS companies. Ability to work closely with engineering teams and engage in technical discussions with architects, developers, solution architects, support engineers, and customer operations teams. Strong customer-discovery skills, with the ability to translate technical and commercial pain points into clear product priorities. Experience with market analysis, competitor research, pricing, packaging, value propositions, and product positioning. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear product narratives, roadmap updates, business cases, and launch materials. A structured, analytical approach to prioritization, with comfort using customer input, market data, usage data, commercial impact, and technical feasibility to make product decisions. Confidence working across distributed, international teams. Nice to Have CSP, MSP, hosting, telco, or cloud service provider environments. VMware alternatives, OpenStack-based platforms, KVM-based virtualization, Kubernetes orchestration, or infrastructure automation. Product ownership for cloud control panels, cloud management platforms, portals, billing integrations, self-service platforms, or infrastructure oper