Director, Product Management

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San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

NetApp in San Jose focuses on leading the AFF systems portfolio. The role drives product strategy, roadmaps, and cross-functional execution across engineering, sales, and finance to deliver high-value all-flash storage platforms.

You will coach a team of PMs, set priorities, and present strategic tradeoffs to executives. With a strong background in enterprise storage architectures and ONTAP familiarity, you’ll own lifecycle management, competitive positioning, and GTM collaboration to maximize

Qualifications

12+ years of product management experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, or related hardware/software domains.
5+ years leading product managers or equivalent people leadership of a technical product team.
Proven ownership of a high-revenue hardware/software product line including roadmap and lifecycle outcomes.
Strong understanding of enterprise storage architectures and modern data-center infrastructure.
Experience partnering with engineering on next-generation system definition across multiple product lines.
Experience driving cross-functional execution across engineering, supply chain, operations, finance, and GTM.
Executive presence to present platform tradeoffs to senior leadership.
Familiarity with NetApp ONTAP or comparable storage platforms preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and coach a team of product managers for AFF systems and next-gen platform programs.
Set team priorities, cadence, and delivery standards; be accountable for the AFF franchise.
Represent the portfolio to senior leadership and communicate strategy, tradeoffs, and performance.
Own product strategy for NetApp's AFF systems and define positioning across the portfolio.
Define and drive strategy for engineered systems with shared architectures across lines.
Develop and maintain multi-generation roadmaps across performance, capacity, form factors, and transitions.
Track adoption, capacity growth, and economics; translate metrics into roadmap and GTM actions.
Drive new-product programs from requirements through qualification to GA, sustaining, and EOL.
Ensure product requirements for engineering, operations, and planning are clear and aligned to launches.
Own lifecycle discipline including transitions, configuration optimization, and sustaining strategy.
Synthesize customer and partner requirements into platform priorities and design decisions.
Own competitive positioning and convert gaps into actions.
Connect platform investments to customer outcomes and business impact with business cases.
Partner with product marketing and field on messaging and enablement.
Coordinate accountability across engineering, supply chain, operations, finance, marketing, and sales.
Influence architecture and system-level decisions spanning multiple product lines.

Skills

Product strategy

Leadership of technical product teams

Enterprise storage architectures

Cross-functional execution

ONTAP familiarity

Tools

NetApp ONTAP

Unified Storage Platforms

Job description

Lead, develop, and coach a team of product managers responsible for AFF systems and next-generation platform programs
Set team priorities, operating cadence, and delivery standards; serve as point of accountability for the AFF franchise
Represent the portfolio to senior leadership and communicate strategy, tradeoffs, and business performance
Own product strategy for NetApp's AFF systems and define positioning across the broader portfolio
Define and drive next-generation strategy for engineered systems with shared architectures across multiple product lines
Develop and maintain multi-generation roadmaps across performance and capacity tiers, form factors, and technology transitions
Track adoption, mix, capacity growth, and economics and translate metrics into roadmap, pricing, and go-to-market actions
Drive concurrent new-product programs from requirements through qualification, general availability, sustaining, and end of life
Ensure product requirements for engineering, operations, and planning are clear, prioritized, and aligned to launch commitments
Own lifecycle discipline, including generation transitions, configuration optimization, and sustaining strategy
Synthesize customer, field, and partner requirements into platform priorities and design decisions
Own competitive positioning and convert gaps into requirements and actions
Connect platform investments to customer outcomes and business impact through business cases and positioning
Partner with product marketing and the field on messaging, positioning guidance, and enablement
Coordinate accountability across engineering, supply chain, operations, finance, marketing, and sales
Influence architecture and system-level decisions spanning multiple product lines and generations

Requirements

12+ years of product management or technical product planning experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, or related hardware/software domains
5+ years leading product managers or equivalent people-leadership of a technical product team
Proven ownership of a high-revenue hardware and/or systems product line, including roadmap, new product introduction, lifecycle, and business outcomes
Strong understanding of enterprise storage architectures, including all-flash systems, file and block protocols, and modern data-center infrastructure
Experience partnering with engineering on next-generation system definition, including architectures shared across more than one product line
Experience driving cross-functional execution across engineering, supply chain, operations, finance, and go-to-market
Executive presence and ability to represent complex platform and business tradeoffs to senior leadership
Familiarity with NetApp ONTAP or comparable unified storage platforms preferred
Experience with storage economics, performance and capacity offerings, and platform generation transitions preferred
Experience positioning storage for AI, virtualization, mission-critical applications, and other enterprise workloads preferred

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in product management and technical product planning within enterprise infrastructure, particularly in storage systems. Proven ability to lead teams, define product strategy, and drive cross-functional execution to achieve business outcomes.

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