Manager, Workforce Intelligence & AI Products

NetApp, Inc.; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Pension Plans

Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

NetApp is seeking a leader to shape and execute the Workforce Intelligence and AI product roadmap. You will align data governance, security, and governance with scalable analytics to empower HR leaders and employees. This role sits at the intersection of People Analytics, AI, and product management.

You will build and mentor a high-performing team, partner across HR, IT, Legal, Privacy, and Security, and drive adoption of trusted AI-powered insights across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team and building scalable People Analytics or AI-enabled products.
• Strong understanding of People Analytics, BI, data engineering, product management, or related fields.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks.
• Experience with SQL, Power BI, data modeling, and modern analytics architectures.
• Understanding of AI technologies including LLMs, AI Agents, RAG, and conversational AI.
• Experience collaborating with HR, IT, Security, Privacy, and Legal stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, change management, and stakeholder influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the roadmap for Workforce Intelligence and AI-powered products.
• Design scalable workforce intelligence solutions for HR, leaders, and employees.
• Translate complex workforce questions into user-centered experiences.
• Drive adoption, product effectiveness, and measurable business outcomes.
• Lead development of AI Skills, AI Agents, and conversational analytics capabilities.
• Build AI-powered experiences enabling natural language interaction with workforce data.
• Evaluate emerging AI tech and accelerate insights and decision support.
• Ensure AI solutions are trusted, transparent and aligned with responsible AI principles.
• Define governance frameworks, access models, and guardrails for workforce products.
• Partner with HR, IT, Privacy, Security teams to secure and trust data.
• Establish role-based access controls, data governance standards, and AI safety practices.
• Balance governance with seamless access to insights and self-service analytics.
• Guide development of AI-ready workforce data products on Snowflake.
• Model data, design semantic layers, manage ETL and analytics architecture.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, governed, and reusable enterprise-wide.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team in Workforce Intelligence and AI.

Skills

Team leadership

Scalable products

People Analytics

AI technologies

Snowflake

Databricks

SQL

Power BI

Data modeling

Stakeholder management

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Job Summary

NetApp is transforming Workforce Analytics from a dashboarding function into an AI-powered Workforce Intelligence capability. At NetApp, we are working towards building the next generation of People Analytics products that make workforce data more accessible, more intelligent, and more trustworthy. The Manager, Workforce Intelligence & AI Products will lead the strategy, development, governance, and adoption of AI-enabled workforce intelligence solutions, including conversational analytics, AI Skills, AI Agents, and self-service insights. This leader will build and develop a team while creating scalable products that help leaders make faster, more informed workforce decisions. Working at the intersection of People Analytics, AI, Product Management, Data Engineering, and Governance, this role will play a key part in advancing NetApp's People Analytics strategy and enabling trusted, AI-powered workforce intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Workforce Intelligence

• Define and execute the roadmap for Workforce Intelligence and AI-powered People Analytics products.
• Design scalable workforce intelligence solutions that support HR, leaders, and employees.
• Translate complex workforce questions into intuitive, user-centered experiences.
• Drive adoption, product effectiveness, and measurable business outcomes.

AI Skills, Agents & Conversational Analytics

• Lead development of AI Skills, AI Agents, and conversational analytics capabilities.
• Build AI-powered experiences that enable natural language interaction with workforce data.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities to accelerate workforce insights and decision support.
• Ensure AI solutions are trusted, transparent, and aligned with responsible AI principles.

Data Governance, Security & Trust

• Define governance frameworks, access models, and guardrails for workforce intelligence products.
• Partner with HR, IT, Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to ensure workforce data is secure, trusted, and used responsibly.
• Establish role-based access controls, data governance standards, and AI safety practices.
• Balance strong governance with seamless access to insights and self-service analytics.

Data Platform & Analytics Engineering

• Guide development of AI-ready workforce data products and analytics capabilities on Snowflake.
• Partner with HR and IT teams on data modeling, semantic layer design, ETL processes, and analytics architecture.
• Ensure workforce intelligence solutions are scalable, governed, and reusable across the enterprise.

People Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team focused on Workforce Intelligence and AI products.
• Build organizational capability in AI, analytics engineering, product management, and responsible AI.
• Establish best practices, operating processes, and development pathways for the team.
• Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning.

Required Qualifications

• Experience leading a team.
• Experience building scalable People Analytics, AI, or digital products.
• Strong understanding of People Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, Product Management, or related disciplines.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies.
• Experience with SQL, Power BI, data modeling, and modern analytics architectures.
• Understanding of AI technologies, including Large Language Models (LLMs), AI Agents, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and conversational AI.
• Experience working across HR, IT, Security, Privacy, and Legal stakeholders.
• Strong communication, change management, and stakeholder influence skills.

Compensation
The target salary range for this position is $170,000-$205,000. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. The range is based on 'On Target Earnings' (OTE) representing the total potential earnings, which is the sum of the base salary and potential commission earned when performance targets are achieved. 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, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU's). These offerings are subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. We will provide detailed information about the specific benefits for your region during 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.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one.

Submitting an Application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

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.