Senior Product‑ & Alliance Manager (Virtualization & Application Infrastructure) Metzingen (m/f/d)

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...then come into a team of positively crazy and into a company that ticks differently.Senior Product‐ & Alliance Manager m/w/d (Virtualization & Application Infrastructure) As Senior Product & Alliance Manager m/w/d (Virtualization & Application Infrastructure), you are responsible for the strategic portfolio of virtualization, container platforms and enterprise application infrastructure. Your focus is clearly on product, portfolio and ecosystem management – manufacturer-neutral, forward-looking and senior level. The role is a key role between product, technology, market and organization. It's up to you: You take responsibility for our virtualization & application infrastructure portfolio – from hypervisor technologies to container platforms to enterprise workloads You actively shape the portfolio roadmap, evaluate new technologies, identify trends and shape a future-oriented, consistent solution for our customers You build a manufacturer-neutral technology and partner ecosystem, engage strategic partnerships and evaluate their fit, scalability and potential You support sales, marketing, business development and engineering, develop strong storylines, clear benefits, and carry out workshops, enablements and internal coordination You moderate between strategy, technology and market requirements, work on standards, platform concepts and Go‐to-Market topics You will follow market, customer and competition developments, guide strategic recommendations and think beyond the plate edge – e.g. on modernization, consolidation, migration or automation

You bring at least 5 years of experience in virtualization, platform IT or modern data center architectures and feel comfortable in complex IT infrastructures You know hypervisor-, container- and Kubernetes-based platforms in detail and can safely arrange technical relationships You have experience with enterprise application workloads – whether SAP systems, Windows environments, databases or GPU / AI-related applications You have a senior minority set, meet clear decisions, think structured and reflect your topics strategically You communicate comprehensible, moderately sovereign and manage to convey technical content in such a way that everyone is in the boat You take Ownership for your portfolio, work analytically, bring people together and guide teams to a goal

A central strategic role in Advanced UniByte's portfolio Great design space for the further development of one of the most important core solutions Clear Role Delimitation: Strategy & Portfolio Instead of Day Operations Close cooperation with an experienced product and alliance team Perspectives at senior/expert level We also offer you: Company car with private use Flexible working hours Company Handy with Private Use Health and fitness services Childcare / childcare allowance Employee events ... and much more! !