Principal, Product Management, Cloud Data Protection

Title: Principal, Product Management, Cloud Data Protection

Location: Palo Alto, California

About The Team The Product Management team at Rubrik drives Rubrik’s vision forward, ensuring we continue to secure the world’s data by delivering on our market-leading platform to address our customers’ most challenging data management & security needs. Our Product Managers are responsible for guiding multidisciplinary teams towards the goal of shipping high-quality products on time. We wear multiple hats throughout the different stages in the product lifecycle and set the vision for our growing family of products. As advocates for both our users and our business, Product Managers balance varied perspectives and empower their teams to do great work.

About The Role This role requires a visionary leader and "intrapreneur" who can bring to market the next frontier of cloud data protection. You will partner closely with the Business Line Leader for Cloud Data Protection to identify new market pain points, emerging technologies, and untapped personas to ensure Rubrik maintains market leadership in a rapidly evolving landscape. You are a strategist with a "nose for value" who excels at gathering customer insights to define and bringing to life differentiated solutions. While starting as an individual contributor, you will be expected to grow on the PM track, eventually building and leading a high-performing team of Product Managers.

What You’ll Own Product Strategy & Opportunity Discovery

• Market Expansion: Evaluate new opportunities for the cloud product line to deliver gross differentiation by identifying new pain points, emerging technologies, and high-growth personas. Move validated concepts from initial concept to business case.
• Competitive Positioning: Maintain a strong pulse on competitors and competitive positioning to ensure Rubrik remains the market leader.
• Influence over Roadmap Prioritization: Partner with Cloud Product Managers to assess prioritization of new opportunities vis-a-vis current roadmap; articulate tradeoffs; test, learn, and iterate
• Cloud Cyber-Recovery: Help drive vision for how Rubrik will deeper our differentiation in clean, fast recovery for Cloud workloads, partner with security PMs

Evangelism & Customer Feedback

• Product Voice: Evangelize the cloud product line internally and externally, serving as a credible voice in roadmap reviews and executive discussions.
• Feedback Loop: Build strong relationships with customers and sales teams to gather and share deep insights that inform the product direction.
• Global Partnership: Act as a trusted partner to global stakeholders, navigating distributed execution effectively.

Required Experience What We’re Looking For:

• 5-15 years of recent Product Management experience with a focus on enterprise software.
• Entrepreneurial Track Record: Demonstrated experience bringing new products to market (0→1)
• Enterprise Expertise: Proven experience working within enterprise product teams and building deep, technical relationships with Global 2000 customers and sales organizations

Required Skills And Background

• Strategic Intuition: A proven "nose for value" and the ability to identify signals of market shifts before they become mainstream.
• Cloud Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and their associated services, especially persistent data stores like databases and object stores. Experience with cloud security is a plus.
• Bias for Action: A self-starter who likes to work at a fast pace, get into the details, and drive change within an organization.
• Collaborative Leadership: A respected partner to sales, engineering, design, and marketing who can drive alignment across competing priorities

The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US Pay Range

$243,900—$341,800 USD

Join Us in Securing the World's Data

Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.

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Inclusion @ Rubrik

At Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world’s data.

Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.

Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:

• Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.
• Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.
• Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Rubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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