Principal Product Manager - Switching

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Bengaluru (India) seeks a seasoned product leader to own end-to-end strategy and roadmap for multiple complex products. You will shape value propositions, target segments, and business cases, guiding cross-functional teams across lifecycle stages to maximize margins and market impact.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, strong technical and financial acumen, and the ability to mentor teams in a hybrid work setting (2 days per week in-office).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of work experience in a related field.
• Strong technical understanding of the relevant industry.
• Ability to mentor and lead cross-functional teams on complex projects.
• Experience with cost-efficient solution building and financial performance analysis.
• Solid business acumen and problem-detection skills.

Responsibilities

• Independently leads and drives end-to-end strategy and roadmap for complex products.
• Builds value propositions, market segments, and business cases for product portfolios.
• Translates MRD into marketing/customer details with deep customer knowledge.
• Guides portfolio strategy across lifecycle phases and coordinates stakeholders.
• Aligns goals across value-chain partners to optimize margins and drive success.

Skills

Technical acumen

Cross-functional leadership

Mentoring teams

Financial analysis

Root cause analysis

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Job description

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

Job Family Definition:

Designs, plans, develops and manages a product or portfolio of products throughout the solution portfolio lifecycle: from new product definition or enhancements to existing products; planning, design, forecasting, and production; to end of life.

Management Level Definition

Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent. Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization.

What You Will Do

• Independently leads and drives the end to end strategy and operational product roadmap for one or more complex products or a product portfolio.
• Builds and delivers the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case to bring innovative and disruptive products to market for a product portfolio with respect to the whole company product portfolio (i.e. Product configuration mix, Revenue/Margins, financials, market share).
• Synthesizes market requirements (MRD) into marketing/customer details through having intimate customer knowledge and business, financial and industry market acumen.
• Guides key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle (e.g., planning, development, launch, management, exit).
• Creates and drives goal alignment and collaborates across one or more products' value chain partners to optimize margins and enable success of products per plans across the product lifecycle. (ie. Engineering: product development, Supply Chain: SKUs, inventory and Marketing: marketing and pricing strategies and Go To Market Plan).

What You Need To Bring

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study. MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.
• 10+ years of work experience in related field
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry
• Extensive team skills and ability to cross functionally drive/influence work through others, ability to mentor and lead teams to achieve results for complex, ambiguous projects.
• Extensive skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis
• Extensive business acumen and knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection.
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and ability to provide product specific technical training to the team.

What We Can Offer You

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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