Product Manager -Network Automation

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Personal & Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Bengaluru (India) seeks a seasoned Product Manager for networking automation and assurance. You will lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, shaping direction from Day 0 to Day 2 operations, with a focus on proactive, intelligent assurance and differentiated customer value.

The role requires expert networking knowledge, strong executive engagement, and hands-on automation skills including REST APIs, NETCONF, YANG, and Python.

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of experience in Product Management.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking, routing, switching, and network architectures.
• Hands-on understanding of BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN, IP/MPLS, VPNs, and routing policy.
• Strong understanding of network automation and programmability, including REST APIs, NETCONF, YANG, gNMI, streaming telemetry, and/or Python.
• Experience with network observability, telemetry, analytics, service assurance, or AIOps.
• Understanding of AI/ML applications in networking, including anomaly detection, intelligent insights, root-cause analysis, and predictive analytics.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, microservices, containers, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong customer-facing, communication, presentation, and executive engagement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical skills, and ability to translate technology into business outcomes.
• Experience taking products from concept through launch, adoption, and growth.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and business plan for network automation and assurance capabilities.
• Identify customer needs, market opportunities, competitive trends, and emerging technologies to shape product direction.
• Define and prioritize capabilities across network automation, observability, service assurance, continuous validation, intelligent insights, and automated remediation.
• Drive use cases across Day 0/Day 1/Day 2 network operations, with a strong focus on proactive and intelligent Day 2 assurance.
• Translate complex networking and operational challenges into intuitive product experiences and differentiated customer value.
• Partner with Engineering and Architecture to define product requirements, technical priorities, APIs, workflows, and user experiences.
• Leverage AI/ML, network telemetry, analytics, and cloud-native technologies to enable intelligent network operations.
• Engage directly with customers through discovery sessions, workshops, POCs, and executive briefings to validate product direction.
• Develop product positioning, use cases, competitive differentiation, and go-to-market strategies.

Skills

Enterprise networking

BGP

OSPF

EVPN

VXLAN

IP/MPLS

REST APIs

NETCONF

YANG

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Python

Cloud-native architectures

Job description

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work 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

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and business plan for network automation and assurance capabilities.
• Identify customer needs, market opportunities, competitive trends, and emerging technologies to shape product direction.
• Define and prioritize capabilities across network automation, observability, service assurance, continuous validation, intelligent insights, and automated remediation.
• Drive use cases across Day 0/Day 1/Day 2 network operations, with a strong focus on proactive and intelligent Day 2 assurance.
• Translate complex networking and operational challenges into intuitive product experiences and differentiated customer value.
• Partner with Engineering and Architecture to define product requirements, technical priorities, APIs, workflows, and user experiences.
• Leverage AI/ML, network telemetry, analytics, and cloud-native technologies to enable intelligent network operations.
• Engage directly with customers through discovery sessions, workshops, POCs, and executive briefings to validate product direction.
• Develop product positioning, use cases, competitive differentiation, and go-to-market strategies.

What You Need To Bring

• 10–12 years of experience in Product Management.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking, routing, switching, and network architectures.
• Hands-on understanding of technologies such as BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN, IP/MPLS, VPNs, and routing policy.
• Strong understanding of network automation and programmability, including REST APIs, NETCONF, YANG, gNMI, streaming telemetry, and/or Python.
• Experience with network observability, telemetry, analytics, service assurance, or AIOps.
• Understanding of AI/ML applications in networking, including anomaly detection, intelligent insights, root-cause analysis, and predictive analytics.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, microservices, containers, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong customer-facing, communication, presentation, and executive engagement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical skills, and ability to translate technology into business outcomes.
• Experience taking products from concept through launch, adoption, and growth.

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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