CloudZero is the leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency.
We connected with Kevin Lamb to get a look at what a day in the life of a Principal Product Manager at CloudZero looks like.
In this video, Kevin answers.
- What is your role and responsibilities?
- What does a typical day in the life look like?
- What attracted you to CloudZero?
- Advice for someone looking to join the team
Video Transcript
Kevin Lamb, a product manager over here at CloudZero.
It’s a fun role. I get the joy of working with a whole bunch of different folks. I work internally, collaborating with our sales team, our customer success team, our engineering team, and then externally as well, working with customers every single day. This ensures we understand their needs and requirements and are delivering on the capabilities they need to ensure that CloudZero is of utmost value and delivering on their business outcomes.
A typical day entails:
- Starts with customer engagement. We meet with customers every single day—existing customers, potential customers, or simply ones interested in our product, vision, and strategic initiatives.
- Could entail hopping in and working with our engineering team, ensuring that we have the right scope and requirements, and ensuring what they’re delivering on will translate exactly to what those customers are asking for and looking to solve.
- Could also entail working with our field teams. They are the tip of the spear and have amazing opinions, thoughts, and feedback on where we should take the product.
- We could also be meeting in the afternoon with our marketing team, ensuring that all of those things are clearly marketed on our website and social media. We want to ensure we get the word out on what exactly we’re building, as we are working on a whole lot over here.
That day would entail working with all of those folks, and I’m sure I’m missing others, as it changes day-to-day and is always going to be something slightly different than the day prior.
I’m really excited about the energy and where we’re at. I think timing is one factor. You want to make sure it’s the right fit, but you also want to make sure it’s the right timing.
I’m really bullish on where this market is headed as it relates to ensuring that companies are able to tackle their challenges from a cost perspective (budgeting, forecasting, optimizing their spend). As we all know, AI is the next wave we’re seeing. From a cost perspective on AI, folks are starting to do a whole bunch of amazing things, but there’s always a cost component to new technologies. The conversation is shifting from, “Let’s go out and leverage these new technologies,” to “What is really the worthwhileness of delivering on those technologies?” It’s a question between “What does it cost?” and “Was it worth it?” The timing is impeccable as it relates to CloudZero.
The second point is that I’m really encouraged by the culture we’re building here. I’m super excited to work with all of those different groups, ensuring that you’re rowing in the same direction. I see that day in and day out. We’re all rowing in that same direction and all ensuring that we’re delighting the customer, ensuring we’re delivering on outcomes for those customers.
My advice to join the team is for somebody that really wants to jump in with both feet and make a big splash. What I mean by that is ensuring that you’re able to really dive head first and start to deliver on things, whether that means:
- Meeting with customers.
- Shaking things up, delivering on capabilities.
- Jumping into customer sessions.
- Working hand-in-hand with our awesome field team.
- Working with our incredible engineering team.
It’s somebody who jumps in and wants to really leave a legacy—be able to leave a legacy behind in terms of what they deliver. I always look backwards on what are the things that I can point to that either delighted a customer, solved the problem, or ensured that our customers’ needs were met. It’s somebody that wants to dive right in and leave a legacy.
