Senior Director of Product Strategy

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

What Youll Do

In this role, youll be a leader in developing our business growth strategy using action-oriented data-driven decision-making processes. You’ll be posing the question(s), finding the data, and doing the analysis to create growth initiatives that lead to measured business outcomes.

The role requires a candidate with strong analytical skills using data-driven approach(es) and a passion for driving business results. This role will include significant interaction with our customers, finance, operations, go-to-market sales, marketing, and cross-functional product teams. These supporting activities will be essential to the execution of the job role.

Identify relevant studies, lead the telemetry collection and data analysis to support product requirements

Help facilitate strategic plans, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and activities

Architect, design, and oversee the building of relevant dashboards to support business reviews to analyze the health of the business

Define, analyze, assess, and/or perform Total Available Market (TAM) and Serviceable Available Market (SAM) assessments for future business opportunities

Monitoring progress and reporting on key success metrics to key stakeholders

Lead and/or conduct market research to identify service/product gaps, market trends/patterns, and articulate market opportunities

Use quantitative and qualitative data to become knowledgeable about customer usage habits and needs/requirements

Support projected/modeled outcomes with relevant market data

Operate both independently and as part of a broader team; juggle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously in a results-oriented environment

Lead cross-functional teams in product life cycle management

Who Youll Work With

The Product Management team drives the vision and roadmap for Teradata offerings in public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud), cloud database, and advanced analytic engines. We work cross-functionally across most parts of the business to deliver outcomes that matter to our customers, our company, and our team. We work as a team and are outcome-driven. Teradata is seeking a passionate, highly motivated, and experienced senior director to lead the Strategy for the team. As a member of the Product Management Leadership Team, you will be shaping the strategy of Teradata’s Cloud business.

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

10 years of product management experience in a high-growth industry

5 to 10 years of product development experience

Knowledgeable about Public Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and product best practices

Technical or business undergraduate degree, MBA or equivalent experience preferred

What Youll Bring

Demonstrated ability to use influencing skills to lead cross-functional teams

Demonstrated ability to use limited information to develop problem statements, analyze scenarios, and develop solutions

Solid understanding of financial systems, product profit and loss models, pricing strategies, and revenue recognition practices

Good understanding of legal documents and subsequent entitlements (customer and supplier agreements)

Stays abreast of the latest industry and competitive trends and can analyze data/information from market research & intelligence tools such as IDC, Gartner, and Forrester

Demonstrated personal and professional values consistent with Teradata’s values

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills

A good communicator who can speak to team members of all levels

Familiarity with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Aha!, and JIRA applications, and tools

Strong bias for action with a willingness to challenge the status quo

Ability to self-manage multiple projects to deliverables

Comfortable analyzing data and presenting to executive(s) stakeholders

Strong understanding of Teradata Vantage product portfolio, especially cloud services

Experience formulating and driving business growth initiatives/strategies

Experience in delivering B2B enterprise platform-as-a-service offers

Experience leading organizational activities (all hands, staff, extended staff activities)

Experience with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) methodologies

Experience with supporting investor relations for earnings call preparations

Previous leadership experience in Engineering and Product Management

Understanding of market research methodologies

Desire to learn and grow in a technical product management business career

Experience with a data visualization tool(s) like PowerBI / Tableau

PowerPoint and Excel Power User

Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata

We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.

Teradata invites all identities and backgrounds in the workplace. We work with deliberation and intent to ensure we are cultivating collaboration and inclusivity across our global organization.

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We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Pay Rate: 202900.0000 – 263700.0000 – 324600.0000 Annually

Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on geographic location, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and candidate experience. Learn more about Teradata’s competitive Total Rewards package at https://www.teradata.com/About-Us/Careers/Benefits