Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HiveMQ is the Industrial AI Platform helping enterprises move from connected devices to intelligent operations. They are seeking an exceptional Director of Product Management to lead HiveMQ’s Data Streaming portfolio, focusing on the core product, HiveMQ Enterprise Broker. The role involves strategic leadership, driving business outcomes, and collaborating cross-functionally to enhance the product's market fit and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive product strategy for the Data Streaming layer of our platform with a clear thesis on how and where we should invest to drive our “expert product for experts” to be easier to deploy, easier to manage, easier to configure, etc
- Work with customers, our sales team, along with partners & alliances team to identify key integration opportunities to invest in as part of how the Data Streaming product fits within broader solutions that our customers are attempting to build
- Own the product scope and sequencing for the next-generation Core Broker — evolving toward cloud-native, multi-tenancy, and Agent Experience (AX) — while holding near-term LTS and expansion commitments in parallel
- Champion AX (Agent Experience) as a first-class design target alongside UX and DX: on-demand broker provisioning via API, OpenAPI specs across every capability, and the “ceremony elimination” heuristic — does this require the user or agent to reason about infrastructure, or does it just work?
- Think cross-functionally and ahead: understand how Streaming connects to PLG, SLG, Expansion, and Partner motions, and make deliberate choices about where and how HiveMQ competes in the lower-end of the market
- Establish clear, inspiring vision for your teams derived from company strategy, helping prioritize and reprioritize for organizational success
- Drive measurable business outcomes across adoption, usage, revenue, and customer satisfaction metrics for the Data Streaming portfolio
- Own the data story: work with product data analysts to instrument products effectively, measure impact, and report progress toward business objectives
- Communicate value effectively through data-backed storytelling to executives, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Identify and address organizational bottlenecks, proposing process improvements as business scale demands
- Make hard calls: determine when products or features should be terminated if they don’t deliver desired outcomes
- Partner deeply with engineering leadership (Team Leads, Directors) to ensure technical feasibility and delivery excellence. As this is the flagship part of our platform, our engineering leaders have strong opinions about delivering mission critical and stable releases because our customers run their entire manufacturing sites and plants on top of our technology
- Collaborate with GTM organizations including Sales, Customer Success/Support, Alliances, and Product Marketing at director and VP levels
- Manage strategic customer relationships and handle escalations with appropriate oversight
- Build consensus across departments on complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Develop and present roadmaps and proposals to senior leadership, occasionally engaging with C-suite executives
- Maintain intimate customer knowledge through ongoing strategic customer relationships
- Advocate for customer needs by framing capabilities in terms of customer outcomes and business priorities
- Validate product-market fit through continuous discovery and customer feedback loopsDrive customer intimacy beyond strategic accounts to understand broader market needs
Skills
- 8–15 years total work experience, with significant portion in product management or consulting
- Track record with established enterprise infrastructure products at a meaningful stage of maturity — products with real revenue, demanding enterprise customers, and significant growth still ahead. You've navigated the tension between meeting current customer commitments and making the architectural investments required to unlock the next phase of adoption
- Data-driven product development: demonstrated success using quantitative and qualitative methods to drive product decisions
- Budget and resource management: experience allocating resources across teams and managing to budget
- Message-oriented middleware and event-driven architectures: deep familiarity as PM or practitioner with MQTT and/or platforms like Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ, or similar distributed messaging and streaming technologies — you understand throughput, latency, ordering guarantees, QoS tradeoffs, and the design decisions that differentiate these platforms in practice
- OT/IT convergence: meaningful experience with operational technology environments — PLC communication, OPC-UA, Modbus, SCADA, MES — either through product management, systems integration, solution engineering, or hands-on work in industrial settings; you have credibility talking to plant engineers and IT architects in the same conversation
- Smart manufacturing / Industry 4.0: understanding of how manufacturers instrument facilities, manage device fleets, and move operational data from edge to cloud; direct experience with Tier 1 industrial companies in automotive, pharma, energy, or discrete manufacturing is a strong plus
- Strategic thinking: ability to set vision, define strategy, and execute across multiple product lines
- Influence without authority: proven ability to drive alignment across senior stakeholders through data and compelling narratives
- Effective communication: creates clear executive-level communications; teams and stakeholders understand priorities and how work connects to company mission
- Decision-making under uncertainty: comfortable making and defending tough calls, saying “no” thoughtfully, and adjusting course based on data
- Empathetic leadership: delivers challenging feedback and news with honesty, empathy, and understanding
- Cultural steward: demonstrates and champions product management best practices and company values
- Product instrumentation: ensures products are measured effectively to monitor impact and progress toward goals
- Outcome-focused mindset: cares about achieving business goals, not just shipping features
- Risk identification: thinks ahead to identify risks and mitigation strategies
- Process design: identifies inefficiencies and proposes scalable solutions as business grows
- Stakeholder management: builds and maintains relationships across R&D, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Support, and executive teams
- IoT, robotics, or adjacent industrial domains: broader device connectivity experience — even if not pure OT — that translates to credibility in industrial contexts; robotics, connected vehicle, energy systems, or industrial IoT all count
- Self-managed enterprise software: experience with products that deploy on-premises or at the edge, including LTS release cycles, version management, upgrade path design, and enterprise procurement realities
- 4+ years of people management experience, including leading distributed teams across geographies and time zones
- PLG for infrastructure or developer products: track record with product-led growth motions for technical products — trial flows, licensing enforcement, activation metrics, conversion funnel design
- Distributed systems: genuine appreciation for reliability, scalability, clustering, and operational observability at scale — not just as features but as customer outcomes
Benefits
- Remote work
- Flexible working hours
- Free drinks and coffee
- Free snacks
- Company events
- Personal development budget
- Health insurance
- Company pension plan
- Team events
- Modern office locations
- W2 option
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