Senior Product Manager - Virtualization

Company Description

About Mirantis

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.

Job Summary

Mirantis is looking for a Senior Product Manager with deep expertise in VMware, virtual machine management, and enterprise IT infrastructure to lead product strategy and go-to-market execution for our KubeVirt-based virtualization solutions.  

This role is ideal for someone who understands traditional VM-based workloads and is passionate about helping enterprises modernize infrastructure by bridging the gap between legacy virtualization and Kubernetes-native platforms.  

You will work cross-functionally with engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success to define product strategy, shape competitive positioning, and enable adoption across global enterprise customers.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Product Strategy & Execution

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for KubeVirt-based virtualization products, with a focus on easing VMware migration and legacy VM workload modernization.
• Drive requirements based on deep understanding of VM management use cases (e.g., provisioning, HA/DR, live migration, backup/restore, monitoring).
• Translate market and customer needs into actionable product features and release plans.

Go-to-Market Leadership

• Craft compelling positioning and messaging targeting customers currently invested in VMware and looking to reduce dependency on proprietary virtualization platforms.
• Partner with sales and marketing to develop enablement assets: migration playbooks, competitive battlecards, cost comparison models, and technical whitepapers.
• Support field teams and customers in engagements focused on VM migration, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and cost optimization.

Customer & Market Insight

• Engage directly with IT infrastructure teams, platform owners, and DevOps stakeholders to understand virtualization pain points and goals.
• Monitor the evolving VMware ecosystem (vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, NSX, etc.), as well as emerging alternatives and open-source trends.
• Stay informed about licensing, cost models, security policies, and governance concerns related to virtualization.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with engineering and design teams to deliver reliable, scalable VM features on Kubernetes through KubeVirt.
• Ensure roadmap alignment with customer demand and supportability in real-world data center environments.
• Interface with partner ecosystems (e.g., hardware vendors, ISVs, hybrid cloud providers) to extend solution reach.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of infrastructure or virtualization-related products.
• Deep familiarity with VMware platforms (vSphere, vCenter, ESXi) and enterprise virtualization use cases (HA, vMotion, snapshots, etc.).
• Strong understanding of KubeVirt, Kubernetes, and containerization trends.
• Experience helping customers transition from traditional VM environments to Kubernetes or other cloud-native platforms.
• Technical fluency with storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery as it relates to VM and hybrid environments.
• Comfortable with both strategic product planning and tactical GTM execution.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills—able to influence engineering, sales, and C-level stakeholders alike.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Familiarity with VMware-to-KubeVirt migration tooling, such as virt-v2v or Forklift.
• Understanding of cloud service provider virtualization offerings (e.g., AWS EC2, Azure Virtual Machines, Google Compute Engine).

Additional Information

What does Mirantis offer you?

• Help define the next generation of open virtualization—cloud-native, open-source, and enterprise-ready.
• Lead the charge in helping companies move off expensive, legacy virtualization stacks.
• Work in a collaborative, globally distributed team that values innovation and autonomy.
• Competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for leadership and growth in a high-impact product role.
• Mirantis is a Leader for Container Management (#2 after AWS)!

It is understood that Mirantis, Inc. may use automated decision-making technology (ADMT) for specific employment-related decisions. Opting out of ADMT use is requested for decisions about evaluation and review connected with the specific employment decision for the position applied for. You also have the right to appeal any decisions made by ADMT by sending your request to isamoylova@mirantis.com

We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)!