Senior Staff Product Manager - Data Protection
Teradata · Posted Oct 14
Cloud data warehousing, analytics, and enterprise artificial intelligence services
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About the role
Teradata's data protection product team owns the product vision, roadmap, and execution of backup, recovery, and resilience initiatives, collaborating with customers, engineering, cloud infrastructure, security operations, governance, field, and UX teams. The domain spans enterprise data protection across backup and recovery, replication, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber resilience for petabyte-scale hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. This Senior Staff Product Manager role drives Teradata's data protection strategy and roadmap execution, delivering solutions that meet aggressive RTO/RPO targets for the world's most sensitive enterprise data.
What you will do
- In this role, you will serve as a product leader driving Teradata’s data protection product management strategy and execution across our global portfolio.
- You will define and influence how Teradata delivers resilient data protection for the world’s most sensitive enterprise data; spanning backup and recovery, replication, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber resilience.
- Your impact will be shaping how customers meet aggressive RTO and RPO targets at Petabyte scale ensuring reliable backup, rapid recovery, and continuous data availability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- You will accelerate the delivery of the Enterprise data protection and resilience roadmap, balancing innovation with performance, reliability, and compliance.
- Success in this role will be measured by delivering enterprise-grade data protection and resilience solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, differentiating Teradata and unlocking measurable customer value while preserving scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
- On our team, we collaborate with customers, engineering, cloud infrastructure, security operations, governance, field teams, and UX functions to bring next-generation data protection and resilience capabilities into Teradata’s enterprise ecosystem.
- We are responsible for the product vision, roadmap, and execution of backup, recovery, and resilience initiatives, ensuring they meet both business and technical objectives.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
- 12+ years of product management experience, including 6+ years leading data protection, backup and recovery, or disaster recovery products at enterprise scale, including Managed Service Providers
- Deep technical expertise across the data protection stack: backup software and storage platforms, deduplication and compression, snapshot management, replication topologies, immutable and air-gapped storage, ransomware recovery, DR orchestration, and RPO/RTO optimization across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Proven success embedding backup, recovery, and resilience capabilities into enterprise data platforms at petabyte scale, with measurable improvements to customer SLA attainment and recovery confidence.
- Demonstrated knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and their impact on backup strategy, data residency, sovereignty, storage tiering, and cost optimization.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate data protection product strategy to both technical and executive audiences.
- Track record of customer engagement, market analysis, and competitive benchmarking against leading backup and data protection vendors and native cloud provider capabilities.
- Expertise architecting enterprise backup topologies, cyber resiliency and Agentic AI data protection strategies across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, with a focus on minimizing recovery time
- Hands-on knowledge of leading backup and recovery platforms (e.g., Rubrik, Veeam, Cohesity, Commvault, Zerto, NetBackup) and cloud-native backup services (AWS Backup, Azure Backup, Google Cloud Backup and DR).
- Ability to connect backup and recovery strategy to modern AI/ML and analytics workloads, including protecting training datasets, model checkpoints, feature stores, and data pipelines against corruption, accidental deletion, and ransomware.
- A strong understanding of backup retention policy design, covering lifecycle management, legal hold, eDiscovery readiness, and compliance-driven retention schedules for regulated data classes (PII, PHI, PCI) across tiered and archival storage.
- Vision to anticipate industry trends, next-generation backup architectures, AI-driven anomaly detection for data corruption, and data sovereignty mandates and position Teradata’s data protection offerings as differentiated and enterprise-ready.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Teradata
Teradata is a global enterprise software company specializing in multi-cloud data warehousing, analytics, and artificial intelligence solutions. Its flagship offerings, including Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape Analytics, help organizations turn enterprise data into trusted, autonomous actions. The company serves leading global enterprises across industries such as financial services, retail, healthcare, and telecommunications.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 5000-10000 employees
- Founded
- 1979
- Location
- San Diego, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
John Ederer
Chief Financial Officer
Louis Landry
Chief Technology Officer
Sumeet Arora
Chief Product Officer
Michael Hutchinson
Chief Operating Officer
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