Head of Product Management — All-Flash Storage

Jobtailor; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

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

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