Product Solutions Architect (Reference Architectures)

The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity? The VMware Cloud Product Management team leads the vision, business priorities, and product roadmap for VMware’s flagship enterprise hybrid cloud offering delivered as-a-service. We work closely with Customers, Partners, Engineering, SRE, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing teams – to create meaningful value for our users and help them achieve their digital transformation goals. As a Product Solution Architecture (Reference Architectures), you will be primarily focused on facilitating the adoption of VMware Cloud services through the development of intellectual property designed to propagate working knowledge of those services to VMware field teams, partners, and customers. You will also own the technical engagement from Product, for all design and architecture discussions, best practices on deploying VMC at scale. Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing? Ability to engage with customers at all levels to understand deployments and architectures. Be the voice of the customer, share product feedback and gaps, internally with Product and Engineering teams to remove key blockers and accelerate adoption in making our customers successful with VMware Cloud on AWS Work with Product Management and Engineering teams to develop validated solutions for new and existing product features. Assist in the development of public-facing content (documentation, design guides, videos, presentations, etc..) designed to educate and enable consumers of the VMware Cloud services. Work with field teams to gather and document commonly seen designs patterns. Work with Product Management teams to drive product development based on feedback from field teams and from customers. Translate insights from customer engagements and work closely with Product Management/Engineering to clearly define the usecases and prioritize feature requests and roadmap to align with customer deployments. What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis? Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills to drive alignment with customers and internal teams. Demonstrated experience in translating complex architectural challenges to internally/externally consumable assets (Blogs, Whitepapers) Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges with Large Scale Enterprise customers. Deep understanding of the Data Center technologies such as: Compute, Storage, Networking, Virtualization. A strong background in solutions design using VMware SDDC products (vSphere, vSAN, NSX) is desired VCAP, VCIX, or equivalent required. Working knowledge of core AWS technologies such as EC2 and S3, and networking technologies is a plus Background in Product Management, Technical Marketing, Solution Architecture Experience with AWS and other Public Cloud providers is a plus. What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like? The hiring manager for this role is Dustin Spinhirne Where is this role located? Flexible: The location of this role is flexible within Beijing. Work will be done from an office some days during a week and other days from a non-VMware building. What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware? You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com. Employee Stock Purchase Plan Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types Generous Time Off Programs 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.) Category : Marketing Subcategory: Product Management Experience: Business Leadership Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2022-06-10 VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. 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