Lead Product Manager - Cloud Infrastructure at AvePoint in Jersey City, NJ

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About AvePoint: Beyond Secure. AvePoint is the global leader in data security, governance, and resilience, going beyond traditional solutions to ensure a robust data foundation and enable organizations everywhere to collaborate with confidence. Over 25,000 customers worldwide rely on the AvePoint Confidence Platform to prepare, secure, and optimize their critical data across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and other collaboration environments. AvePoint’s global channel partner program includes approximately 5,000 managed service providers, value-added resellers, and systems integrators, with our solutions available in more than 100 cloud marketplaces. To learn more, visit www.avepoint.com . At AvePoint, we are committed to investing in our people. Agility, passion and teamwork set us up to do our best work and foster a culture where you are empowered to craft your career, make an impact, and own (y)our future. Unleash the power of you! About the position We are looking for a hands-on cloud infrastructure practitioner who can lead product. You will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for AvePoint’s IaaS and PaaS data protection portfolio across Azure, AWS, and GCP: compute and virtual machines, managed and self-managed databases, object and file storage, Kubernetes, and infrastructure configuration. This is a highly technical product leadership role connecting cloud architecture, backup and disaster recovery, cyber resilience, and SaaS business outcomes. Cloud Infrastructure is one of AvePoint’s highest-priority investment areas. You will work closely with principal architects and engineers, customers, partners, and field teams to turn real operational challenges into differentiated capabilities and business growth—not simply manage a backlog. What makes this role different Your first-hand infrastructure experience should enable you to challenge designs, identify recovery gaps, and reason through reliability, security, performance, and cost. Daily production coding is not required, but meaningful participation in architectural decisions is. Bring depth in one hyperscaler and transferable knowledge of the others; equal expertise across all three is not expected. Traditional data-center or enterprise-backup experience is valuable, but does not substitute for recent production-cloud and SaaS experience. What you will do Lead technical product decisions. Work directly with Architecture and Engineering on cloud APIs, snapshots and incremental change mechanisms, crash versus application consistency, IAM and service identities, private networking, encryption, and customer-managed keys. Review designs for missing requirements, operational risks, and recovery gaps. Own strategy and workload expansion. Set the roadmap and coverage sequence across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Balance depth versus breadth and define complete protection for each service: backup, restore granularity, regional and account recovery, security, performance, and cost. Shape the SaaS architecture. Partner on control-plane and data-plane responsibilities, AvePoint-hosted versus customer-hosted components, data movement and storage placement, tiering, deduplication and compression, and the economics of scaling a reliable protection service. Drive cyber resilience. Define product direction for immutability and WORM, logically isolated copies, ransomware and anomaly detection, recovery validation, and clean or isolated recovery environments. Make provable recoverability part of what the product delivers. What you will do (continued) Own competitive direction. Evaluate third-party protection products and hyperscaler -native capabilities. Turn evidence about customer needs, competitive gaps, and native-platform limitations into clear investment and positioning decisions. Connect discovery to delivery. Work with cloud architects, platform and security teams, partners, MSPs, and internal field teams. Translate the problems behind their requests into requirements, acceptance c