Director - Product Management (AIOps)

PagerDuty is looking for a Director of Product Management, AIOps, to lead the charge in building the industry’s best event orchestration and automation platform. Our mission: reimagine how applications can operate reliably and autonomously at scale. Events flow into PagerDuty from production systems, developer tooling, and customer service platforms enabling autonomous event intelligence. Using machine learning and event-driven automation, AIOps will automatically detect, triage, and diagnose anomalies and mobilize specialized agents to remediate and SREs and developers only when they need assistance. 

In this high-impact role, you’ll own the vision, roadmap and delivery of our rapidly evolving AIOps product—developing the next generation of intelligent event management and a seamless integration ecosystem. You’ll shape how PagerDuty Operations Cloud, the leader in digital operations management, delivers automatic detection, diagnosis, remediation and learning across digital environments of the world’s leading brands.

This is a unique opportunity for a strategic, hands-on leader who thrives at the intersection of vision, execution, and team leadership. You’ll report directly to the SVP of Product Management to set our strategic direction with peers leading Incident Management and AI & Automation product areas. To succeed, you’ll inspire a high-performing team to deliver exceptional value to our customers—and drive growth for PagerDuty.

This role is targeting candidates currently located on the East Coast (EST time zone). 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop unique, market-leading AIOps capabilities that leverage PagerDuty’s enriched event streams from a robust and growing set of integrations.

• Ensure AIOps integrates seamlessly with AI & Automation and Incident Management to drive customer outcomes.

• Drive the strategy for expanding the ecosystem of integrations, ensuring seamless ingestion, enrichment, and actionability of signals from a diverse set of sources.

• Drive product decisions balancing customer value (measured through product engagement and customer feedback) with financial impact (measured by win rates, retention and ARR).

• Lead and grow a world-class team of Product Managers, with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, developing talent through both formal training and hands-on experience.

• Guide the cultural transformation to usage-based pricing by setting product engagement targets to measure product success and iterating on packaging and pricing models.

• Maintain a balanced roadmap that optimizes for functional, architectural, interoperability, customer value, and revenue goals and ensures effective allocation of resources.

• Clearly articulate the vision and product plans and drive alignment between product development, go-to-market teams, executives, and the rest of the company.

• Partner closely with solutions consulting, product marketing and sales enablement to ensure effective training and messaging about features and their value is delivered at scale.

• Drive the success of the product in terms of customer satisfaction and business results while monitoring the market for shifts in customer needs, technology, and competitive dynamics.

• Build trusted relationships with customers, partners, media and industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, IDC, representing PagerDuty as a thought leader.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years in product management, with a proven track record of success in the software industry.

• Experience applying data science and AI to deliver intelligent applications.

• Understanding of monitoring and observability, or event intelligence products and markets, including customer needs, key trends, and the competitive landscape.

• Industry experience with DevOps engineers, SREs, platform engineers and ITOps teams.

• Proven ability to build and scale product ecosystems and integrations with internal platforms and 3rd party systems, 

• Self-motivated user of AI tools for personal productivity and the craft of product, a bias towards amplifying team output with AI over adding headcount to scale.

• Experience managing teams of product managers: hiring for intelligence, curiosity, and collaboration and focusing on coaching, empowerment, and accountability.

• Exceptional analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Directly applicable experience building enterprise AIOps or observability products.

• Startup or innovation experience, familiarity with agile processes, and a demonstrated “fail fast” mentality to move quickly from concept to MVP to customer validation.

• MBA degree is beneficial, but not required.

The base salary range for this position is 180,000 - 304,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.