Growth & Portfolio Strategy Lead for Data & AI

NetApp; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 266,000 - 396,000; Full time

Job summary

NetApp seeks a Chief Product Officer to shape a multi-billion-dollar portfolio spanning data infrastructure, storage, cloud, and AI. This leader turns market signals into concrete bets, partnering with Product leadership to prioritize investments and allocate capital for maximum ROI.

The role builds and leads a high-caliber team across strategy, growth analytics, market intelligence, and integration, with accountability for durable revenue and margin growth.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in product strategy, corporate strategy, and senior operating leadership roles within enterprise technology.
• Proven success shaping portfolio strategy, driving business and portfolio transformation, and influencing enterprise investment decisions.
• Experience leading inorganic growth initiatives, including acquisition strategy, diligence, integration, and value realization; product-side integration expertise strongly preferred.
• Deep fluency in technology business economics, portfolio investment, capital allocation, and growth strategy, with credibility across data infrastructure, cloud, and AI.
• A proven people leader and executive communicator, able to move senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Finance, Corporate Development, and GTM.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the CPO's strategy partner, turning portfolio direction into an evidence-based viewpoint on investments, holds, or exits.
• Expose gaps, overlaps, and white space; guide bets with clear path to revenue and margin.
• Shape portfolio investment priorities with Product Leadership and ROI models.
• Evaluate capability gaps and build buy/partner recommendations with explicit implications.
• Own upstream corporate-development agenda from acquisition thesis to business case validation.
• Lead due diligence through product/technical lens to validate targets.

Skills

Portfolio strategy

Executive partnership

Data-driven insight

Growth strategy

Tech economics

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering/CS/Business

MBA preferred

Job description

NetApp seeks a Chief Product Officer to shape a multi-billion-dollar portfolio spanning data infrastructure, storage, cloud, and AI. This leader turns market signals into concrete bets, partnering with Product leadership to prioritize investments and allocate capital for maximum ROI.

The role builds and leads a high-caliber team across strategy, growth analytics, market intelligence, and integration, with accountability for durable revenue and margin growth.