Director of Product Management

Director

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Richardson, TX (Hybrid - Partners directly with the VP of Engineering and the CEO)

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Full Time

The Opportunity

Matilda Cloud is one of the most consequential platforms being built in cloud right now. We help enterprises do what most of them know they need to do but cannot figure out how to do well: assess complex multi-cloud estates, migrate workloads without breaking the business, modernize what is worth modernizing, and run all of it with intelligence baked in. Our platform pairs machine learning with real-time operational data to automate work that has historically required armies of consultants and months of risk.

The market is racing toward AI-augmented cloud operations, and our customers are looking for a partner who can move them through that shift safely and confidently. To do that well, we need a product leader who can shape what we build, why we build it, and how we make it indispensable.

Why This Role Is Different

This is a build-the-future role, not a maintain-the-backlog role. The Director of Product Management at Matilda Cloud will own the product vision across our suite - and the operating discipline of how the PM team works. You will be the creative partner to the VP of Engineering, the strategic partner to the CEO, and the voice of the customer across the company.

You will also have the rare opportunity to build the PM function from the ground up, in coordination with an engineering function that is being built in parallel.

You will report to executive leadership, lead a growing PM team, and help define what Matilda Cloud becomes over the next three years - not just what we ship next quarter.

What You Will Own

* Product Vision and Creative Leadership

* Set the long-range product vision across our suite - where we go, what we add, what we sunset, and where we bet.

* Bring a creative, opinionated point of view on the future of cloud migration, modernization, optimization, and AI-driven operations.

* Translate the AI-cloud moment into a product strategy that wins - and inspires the team to want to build it.

* Represent product in executive, board, customer, and partner conversations with the polish and substance the room expects.

* Product Discovery and Customer Strategy

* Build a repeatable system for gathering, validating, and synthesizing customer and market input - structured interviews, win/loss analysis, and tight feedback loops with sales and customer success.

* Be the voice of the customer inside Matilda Cloud - and build direct relationships with the enterprise customers and prospects who will tell us where we should go next.

* Establish a clear methodology for translating customer problems into evidence-backed product opportunities.

* Participate in strategic sales conversations, advisory boards, and customer escalations where product context matters.

* AI at the Forefront of the Product

* Own the strategy for AI-powered capabilities across the platform - where AI creates real differentiation in data-center-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud workflows, and where it does not.

* Define how AI features are scoped, validated, measured, and brought to market when outcomes are probabilistic rather than deterministic.

* Build a PM team that uses AI as a force multiplier on day one - for requirements drafting, competitive research, customer feedback synthesis, user story generation, and release documentation.

* Stay close to the frontier - model releases, agentic patterns, infra shifts - and translate what is real and useful into product moves.

* Roadmap, Governance, and Engineering Partnership

* Build a multi-horizon roadmap framework - near-term delivery, medium-term strategic, longer-range vision - maintained as a living artifact, not a static deck.

* Establish a roadmap review cadence that keeps leadership, engineering, and go-to-market teams aligned without slowing execution.

* Define prioritization frameworks (RICE, opportunity scoring, or your own) that make roadmap decisions defensible and consistent.

* Build a PM-Engineering operating model in partnership with the VP of Engineering - roles, handoffs, shared accountability, and a culture of mutual trust.

* Set standards for requirements, acceptance criteria, scope changes, and post-launch reviews that close the loop between what was shipped and what was learned.

* Team, Discipline, and Career Growth

* Manage, coach, and grow the PM team - onboarding, role expectations, career ladders, and consistent templates that create alignment without stifling judgment.

* Build a product culture that earns trust across engineering, sales, and executive leadership through rigor, transparency, and follow-through.

* Be a senior, visible leader who other PMs aspire to learn from.

* Culture and Diversity

* Help us protect what makes Matilda Cloud feel different - high agency, low ego, deep curiosity, and real care for the people on the team.

* Hire and grow a PM team that reflects the diversity of thought, background, and experience our customers and our market need.

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