Chief Product Officer

Chief Product Officer

Backblaze is a leading cloud storage and data protection company that delivers simple, affordable, and scalable solutions to businesses and developers worldwide. With over four exabytes of customer data under management and hundreds of thousands of users globally, Backblaze empowers organizations to store, use, and protect data without the restriction or high costs associated with traditional providers.

Built on a foundation of transparency, reliability, and customer-centricity, Backblaze has earned the trust of AI innovators, high-growth startups, and enterprise clients seeking high-performance, cost-efficient infrastructure. As the AI economy accelerates, Backblaze is emerging as a strategic alternative to hyper-scale cloud providers. Over the past year, data stored by AI customers has increased 25x, including the company's largest-ever contract, reinforcing Backblaze's value in mission-critical environments.

To support this momentum, Backblaze is making significant investments in engineering velocity, platform modernization, and AI-ready capabilities. Positioned at the intersection of simplicity, performance, and innovation, Backblaze is building the cloud infrastructure needed for the next generation of data-driven companies.

The Role

You will report to the CEO and lead our Product Management function including UX Design, User Research, and PMO.

Your mandate : define a market-backed vision, turn customer problems into shippable solutions, and expand Backblaze into new segments while growing adoption and retention. You will partner closely with Engineering (for developer experience and delivery), Finance / RevOps (for pricing, packaging, and ROI), and GTM teams to turn strategy into measurable outcomes.

Location : This position may be remote, but we value face-to-face collaboration. Our distributed leadership team meets in person every few months, and the role will require roughly 1020% travel to conferences and trade shows.

What You'll Own

• Product Vision & Strategy Set the multi-year product direction across B2 Cloud Storage and Backup, anchored in user problems, PLG customer segment understanding, and clear bets. Balance innovation and vision with tech debt, security, compliance, and operational realities.
• Roadmap & Monetization Decide portfolio priorities and tradeoffs. Run pricing and packaging experiments with Finance / RevOps as core stakeholders. Tie decisions to adoption, NRR, and margin.
• Developer Experience Work with Eng to make APIs, SDKs, and docs dead-simple. Improve developer activation and time-to-first-success.
• AI & New Workloads Serve AI data pipelines (training, evaluation, artifacts), analytics, high-performance computing, media workflows, and other throughput-intensive workloads with practical features customers will use not buzzwords.
• Enterprise-Grade Readiness Raise the bar on security, compliance, data-residency, immutability, KMS / SSO, hybrid patterns, and ransomware / backup protections while keeping the Backblaze simplicity customers expect.
• Market Expansion Win share in target segments (enterprise IT, mid-market, global). Tailor offers and GTM with PMM / Sales. Support lighthouse deals when product input moves the needle.
• Customer Mechanisms Keep the customer's voice at the table : CAB with top accounts, design-partner cohorts for emerging bets, and post-launch adoption reviews.
• Metrics & Outcomes Own the scorecard. Define a small set of product KPIs market share in target segments, bytes stored growth, activation to first success, adoption and NRR, customer satisfaction and drive them.
• Team Leadership Build, coach, and scale a strong PM team that can deliver differentiated, commercially successful products.

What You Bring

How You'll Work

Backblaze Benefits :

The expected salary range for this role is as follows :

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That's why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.