Senior Platform Product Manager
About CData Software, Inc. At CData, we believe data should work for people-and that starts with the team building the technology behind it. In a world where data is increasingly complex and distributed, we're helping organizations bring clarity and connection through real-time data integration. Our products make it easier to access and work with data anywhere, empowering teams to focus on innovation instead of infrastructure. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on CData to power their most important business decisions. Behind that impact is a global team of passionate problem-solvers, engineers, and innovators who are redefining what's possible in data connectivity. Headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, CData has over 500 team members, with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. We take pride not just in what we build, but in how we build it: together, with curiosity, creativity, and a shared drive to push boundaries. Our AI Promise As we look ahead, AI has become a central pillar of what we do. CData is evolving to be AI-native: we're embedding advanced AI tools into our platform, including semantic layers that let the business side and technical side speak the same language, AI connectivity that enables real-time access to data from across your enterprise, and user-friendly, governed ways for teams to ask and act on business questions with conversational tools and intelligent agents. If you want to work somewhere where your engineering, data, or product work directly enables organizations to turn ambiguous, siloed data into trusted intelligence-and where AI is not just hype, but deeply woven into our mission-CData is the place for you. About the role The Senior Platform Product Manager is a senior product leader responsible for defining the requirements, capabilities, and roadmap for Connect AI's cloud platform and hybrid deployment options. This role centers on building a unified, scalable platform that delivers consistent functionality across deployment models while meeting enterprise requirements such as security, compliance, performance, extensibility, and operational control. What you'll do • Define product requirements and roadmap for the Connect AI Cloud Platform, including hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. • Partner with Cloud Engineering, Architecture, and Security to deliver platform features, services, and capabilities. • Translate enterprise customer needs into infrastructure and platform requirements. • Ensure platform reliability, observability, cost optimization, and performance expected SLAs. • Develop documentation, release requirements, and internal enablement materials for platform capabilities. • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to anticipate platform needs across Connect AI product lines. • Ensure platform governance and compliance - SOC2, data residency, tenant isolation policies. • Manage incident response and platform communication - own platform status communications, post-mortems. • Manage migration and upgrade strategy - backwards compatibility, deprecation policies, customer migration paths. • Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations on future state architecture and platform evolution. Qualifications • 8+ years of product management experience, including platform, cloud, or infrastructure product roles. • Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, hybrid cloud models, Kubernetes, observability, and CI/CD pipelines. • Proven ability to collaborate closely with engineering and cross-functional teams. • Experience working with enterprise-scale platforms. • While this role is open to candidates across the U.S., we have a preference for candidates based in or near the San Francisco Bay Area. Travel Required: Potential travel to NC headquarters, customer events, etc. on an as needed basis for work purposes may be necessary. This role has been identified as having possible access to customer sensitive data. You are required to review, acknowledge, and abide by the company's security policies. Apply tot his job