About Silk
Silk is a Sequoia-backed company that just completed $55M Round B fundraising and is growing in the market exponentially. We are the database supercharger -- a smart platform that delivers game-changing database performance without changing a thing about your underlying apps or database infrastructure. With Silk, organizations gain unlimited cloud flexibility, unbreakable data resiliency and unmatched database performance. Silk is the only cloud platform in the market today that enables enterprises to migrate their mission critical applications to the cloud seamlessly, while increasing performance over on-prem environments.
Who Do We Need?
We are growing fast and looking for a Growth Product Manager who can connect the technical and business worlds to continuously improve our product offerings for our cloud customers.
Main expectations of the role:
- Support various GTM activities & needs
- Take part in driving positioning, messaging, pricing, and go-to-market... strategy
- Help sales and BD teams present and articulate business value
- Join the efforts of building analysis and use cases
- Conduct market research and competition analysis
- Engage with customers to gather feedback and help fine-tune the product direction
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in technical products
- High analytical skills
- Technical understanding; not afraid of technical challenges
- Experience with customer engagement
- Fast learner -- eager to learn and face new technological challenges
- Self-disciplined, self-motivated, highly energized, and confident
- Motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment, where agility and a high energy level are crucial
- Excellent presentation and communications skills
- Great interpersonal relationships; able to lead cross-company processes
- Preferred:
- Experience with products in cloud-based environments, SaaS
- Experience with Enterprise customers
- Experience working in startups
- Experience in Sales and business processes
