Senior Director, Product Management – Database Business Unit at SolarWinds
- In Austin, TX.
At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions. The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us! The Senior Director, Product Management leads product strategy, roadmap, and execution for the SolarWinds Database Business Unit—a portfolio that includes SQL Sentry, Database Performance Analyzer, and Database Observability delivered through SolarWinds Observability SaaS. Our customers are DBAs, data platform engineers, and the application teams who depend on them, at organizations where a slow query is a revenue event. This is a rare combination of portfolio ownership, domain depth, and reinvention. The database market is being reshaped by AI on two fronts at once: customers are racing to make their data estates AI-ready, and the work of database administration itself is shifting from human-driven triage toward agentic diagnosis and remediation. You will set the point of view that determines where SolarWinds plays in that shift, and you will run a product organization that builds the way it preaches—partnering with engineering in an AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) model and using AI throughout the product management craft itself. You will lead and grow a team of product managers, own the portfolio P&L in partnership with BU leadership, and serve as the executive voice of the database business with customers, analysts, partners, and the field. Key Responsibilities Own the multi-year strategy and roadmap for the database portfolio across self-hosted and SaaS delivery, spanning SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2, SAP ASE, and cloud-native and NoSQL platforms. Define the portfolio thesis: where we differentiate, where we integrate, where we partner, and where we sunset—and make the trade-offs explicit and defensible to the executive team. Drive the convergence strategy that brings depth-of-domain database capability into the broader SolarWinds Observability platform without diluting what DBAs value most about our products. Own portfolio business outcomes in partnership with BU leadership: ARR growth, net revenue retention, adoption and expansion, pricing and packaging, and margin. Build and defend the investment case for new bets through sizing, competitive analysis, and buy/build/partner evaluation, and present recommendations to the executive staff. Establish a rigorous, evidence-driven discovery practice—customer advisory boards, THWACK community engagement, win/loss analysis, telemetry, and direct DBA immersion—so roadmap decisions rest on evidence rather than opinion. AI Thought Leadership Set and evangelize a forward-leaning point of view on how AI changes database management: agentic troubleshooting, natural-language query and performance analysis, autonomous tuning recommendations, anomaly detection, and predictive capacity and cost optimization. Define the SolarWinds position on AI readiness for the data estate—how customers instrument, govern, and prepare the databases that now serve AI workloads—and translate that position into shipped capability, not just narrative. …