Careers

At Vyatta, we work hard, but we also have a lot of fun. We recognize that we are the little fish in a sea of sharks, but for us that's motivational. Not only is our product disruptive to the networking marketplace, but to some degree each one of us is disruptive by nature as well. We have to be to do what we do every day. We strongly believe in what we are doing and its ability to change the future of communications and networking and we know that our customers do as well. We are not creating a bigger, better, faster networking solution....we are creating an open, flexible, affordable solution that delivers what we believe to be a fundamentally better way to do things. We are not out chasing deals to build a customer base, instead, we are creating a revolution and recruiting team members and fans to help us drive change in the networking world. Are you ready to join?

Current Openings

Job Title: Senior Product Manager/Director of Product Management - Software and Appliances

Initially Reports to: Vice President of Strategy and Marketing

Job Summary:

Let's face it. You probably aren't up to this job. Don't feel bad. Most people aren't.

We're a small startup called Vyatta (www.vyatta.com), changing the world of data communications networking and battling the largest incumbent provider of proprietary networking gear on the planet. And we're doing it with an open-source business model. We're either suicidal or we're onto something BIG.

We need somebody to join us and help with product management for our company's main product lines, our open source firewall, VPN, router software and all the various hardware appliances on which it runs. This is a critical job function and something that we can't hand over to just anybody who fancies themselves a product manager.

In order to have any possibility of success here, you'll need to have a strong mix of technology, product management, and marketing. You'll need to be a strong personality and be able to hold your own as a peer with smart, opinionated engineers and operations people. You'll need to be able to write, present, and communicate well, both internally and externally. You'll need to understand product strategy. You'll need to have business skills to be able to deal with financial matters. You'll need to be able to work with partners and do a bit of business-development now and again. You'll need to be able to manage your time without your boss (me, the vice president of strategy and marketing) riding your ass all the time. Finally, you'll need to have those two elusive properties that most people don't: passion for building great products and the taste to know what that means in the first place.

If you have an MBA from a top-10 business school and think that working at Cisco or Juniper is impressive, you're probably not right for this. We don't care. Frankly, the average product manager from a multi-billion dollar behemoth would wilt under the pressure of our environment in less than two weeks.

We're a small company with not a lot of support staff, so you're going to be a key contributor, interacting with everybody: senior management, customers, partners, engineers, operations, and anybody else who comes in contact with the company.

If you apply for this, you'll probably want to have at least 7 years of direct experience in the networking business, much of it doing product management. You'll have wanted to work for a startup, or at least been a renegade at a larger company who has gotten things done in spite of the bureaucracy, instead of relying on it.

If, after all that, you think you might have a shot at this, please send a cover letter and CV to