Director, Product Mgmt

NetApp; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 228,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Paid Time Off

Job summary

NetApp is seeking a senior product leader for our public cloud storage business. You will drive AI/ML workload strategies, collaborate with GTM teams, and work with ecosystem partners to accelerate cloud storage adoption.

In this hybrid role, you’ll lead product planning, engage with customers, and mentor a growing PM team to deliver scalable solutions across AI and enterprise workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• MBA preferred and/or relevant experience.
• 15+ years in engineering, product management, or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Define a product and end-to-end solutions addressing data scalability for AI/ML workloads.
• Collaborate with Go-to-Market teams to deliver customer outcomes and business objectives.
• Build relationships with ecosystem partners to align roadmaps and drive execution.
• Engage with customers to understand needs and advocate in product planning and solution development.

Skills

AI/ML workloads

Enterprise applications

Cloud storage

Leadership

Customer advocacy

Go-to-Market collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

CRM

ERP

BI & Analytics

Job description

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

The NetApp Public Cloud Services business unit is at the forefront of guiding customers to the public cloud, striving to deliver the transformational benefits of cloud technology to both existing and new customers. We are expanding our team and are currently seeking a product leader skilled in AI/ML workloads and enterprise applications for our cloud storage business.

About The Role

In this pivotal role, you will be an integral part of building the next-generation NetApp and Cloud provider co-engineered unified storage solutions built on NetApp’s ONTAP storage operating system in the Cloud. Your focus will be in accelerating the growth of NetApp cloud storage service adoption across AI/ML workloads and enterprise applications migrating to the cloud through product and GTM strategies.

Responsibilities

• Define a product and end-to-end solutions in addressing the data scalability needs of AI/ML workloads.
• Collaborate with Go-to-Market teams to deliver customer outcomes and business objectives.
• Build relationships with key ecosystem partners to align on joint roadmaps and drive execution.
• Engage frequently with customers to understand their needs and act as their advocate in building working backwards.
• Collaborate with engineering, SRE, and partner teams to establish and execute to a product and solutions roadmap designed to deliver customer outcomes.
• Understand the AI cloud ecosystem, storage or infrastructure space, and the enterprise customer perspective on their adoption of AI technologies in the cloud.
• Evangelize products and solutions to customers and industry audiences at small to large forums.
• Lead, mentor and scale the NetApp cloud storage services Product Management team, building upon their current successes to unlock greater potential, foster innovation and meet the demands of this high-growth space.
• Drive data base decisions by consolidating information from usage data, customer feedback, and market analysis, to inform and define product strategy and roadmaps.

Job Requirements

• 15+ years inengineering, product management, professional services, technical marketing engineering, and/or business consulting.
• 10+ years in product management leadership roles in cloud, storage, or AI technologies.
• Hands-on experience with various AI frameworks, building data pipelines for GPUs.
• Hands-on experience with various CRM, HCM, ERP, SCM, Business Intelligence and Analytics enterprise application suites.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with GTM teams to drive sales initiatives to accelerate business growth.
• Proven experience in delivering the value proposition, building and delivering IT solutions to enterprise customers leveraging SaaS/PaaS/IaaS offerings in the cloud.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage regularly with customers, understand their needs, and serve as their advocate in product planning and solution development.
• Proven ability to build strong working relationships across all levels of the organization and with external partners in broad technology areas.
• Track record of building and maintaining strategic relationships with ecosystem partners.
• Ability to negotiate and collaborate across groups to achieve customer success.
• Strong career growth with managerial skills in building and managing product or services teams.

Education

• Bachelor's degree required. Master of Business Administration (MBA) preferred and/or, relevant experience.

Compensation

The target salary range for this position is 227,800 - 338,800 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.