Principal Product Manager, Technical - Hybrid Cloud

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 349,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Personal and professional development programs

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Principal Product Manager, Technical – Hybrid Cloud to lead the vision and execution for cloud management experiences across private and public cloud platforms. This hybrid role involves engaging with enterprise customers and driving product innovation in a rapidly evolving market.

The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of product management experience, a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, and exceptional technical communication skills. Excellent benefits and a hybrid working model are offered along with opportunities for personal and professional development.

Qualifications

• Proven success defining product strategy and delivering complex technical capabilities at enterprise scale.
• Strong understanding of private and public cloud platforms.
• Experience managing hybrid cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the hybrid cloud management strategy.
• Own the roadmap and product strategy for cloud management capabilities.
• Engage with customers to understand platform challenges.

Skills

Product management experience

Cloud infrastructure knowledge

Technical communication skills

Kubernetes operations

Education

8+ years of product management experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

Hybrid Working Model

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career, our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

Morpheus Enterprise | Hybrid Cloud Management

Morpheus Enterprise is a leading hybrid cloud management platform that enables enterprises to provision, govern, automate, and manage workloads across diverse private and public cloud environments. As organizations modernize their infrastructure and embrace multi-cloud strategies, Morpheus provides a unified control plane to simplify operations, increase agility, and reduce complexity.

We are seeking a Principal Product Manager, Technical – Hybrid Cloud to drive the vision, strategy, and execution for cloud management experiences across private cloud platforms such as VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, and public cloud providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes‑based environments.

This is a highly visible leadership role for a product manager who combines deep infrastructure expertise, strong customer engagement skills, and strategic product thinking. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable discussing virtualization architectures with platform engineers, demonstrating product capabilities to customers, and driving long‑term product investments with executive stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

Define and Drive the Hybrid Cloud Management Strategy

Own the roadmap and product strategy for cloud management capabilities across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. Identify opportunities to simplify infrastructure operations, improve governance, enhance automation, and deliver a consistent operating model across heterogeneous platforms.

Lead Cloud Platform Integration and Management Experiences

• VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud ecosystems
• Nutanix AHV
• Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization
• AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes and container platforms
• Emerging cloud and virtualization technologies

Be the Voice of the Customer

Engage directly with enterprise customers, strategic partners, and field teams to understand cloud operating models, platform challenges, and modernization initiatives. Translate customer needs into product innovation and differentiated capabilities.

Drive Technical Product Leadership

Work across engineering, UX, solution architecture, support, and go‑to‑market teams to bring new features from concept through delivery. Provide technical leadership on product decisions involving cloud infrastructure, virtualization, Kubernetes, and platform operations.

Evangelize Product Vision and Capabilities

Serve as a trusted product expert for customers, partners, analysts, and internal teams. Lead customer discussions, participate in architecture reviews, deliver product demonstrations, and support executive briefings.

Shape Market and Competitive Direction

Monitor industry trends across cloud infrastructure, virtualization, Kubernetes, platform engineering, FinOps, automation, and AI‑driven operations. Use competitive and customer insights to influence product strategy and market positioning.

What You Bring

Product Leadership

• 8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of enterprise infrastructure, cloud, platform, or systems management products.
• Proven success defining product strategy and delivering complex technical capabilities at enterprise scale.
• Experience balancing long‑term vision with execution‑focused roadmap delivery.

Technical Depth

Strong Understanding Of

• Private cloud platforms:
  • VMware vSphere / ESXi
  • Nutanix AHV
  • KVM‑based virtualization technologies
  • OpenShift Virtualization
• Public cloud platforms:
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud Platform
• Containers and Kubernetes:
  • Kubernetes architecture and operations
  • Container orchestration and lifecycle management
  • Developer and platform engineering workflows
• Cloud infrastructure and operations:
  • Infrastructure management
  • Platform resiliency and reliability
  • High availability architectures
  • Capacity planning and scalability
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code:
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • GitOps and automation frameworks

Customer and Communication Excellence

• Ability to engage credibly with platform administrators, cloud architects, infrastructure leaders, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills, including customer‑facing demos and technical discussions.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear customer outcomes and business value.
• Exceptional cross‑functional leadership and influencing skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or managing enterprise cloud management, infrastructure management, virtualization, Kubernetes, container, or platform engineering products.
• Strong technical understanding of infrastructure management, including virtualization, compute, storage, networking, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing hybrid cloud solutions across private cloud platforms (VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat) and public clouds (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience delivering enterprise‑scale solutions with a focus on resiliency, scalability, availability, and operational excellence.
• Ability to engage deeply with customers, partners, architects, and engineering teams on technical requirements, product capabilities, and architecture discussions.

Why Join Morpheus at HPE?

• Define the future of hybrid cloud management for some of the world's largest enterprises.
• Influence the strategy and direction of a rapidly growing cloud platform portfolio.
• Work on complex technical challenges spanning virtualization, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform operations.
• Partner with industry‑leading customers and cloud providers to shape next‑generation hybrid cloud experiences.
• Join a team that values technical excellence, customer obsession, innovation, and bold product leadership.

What We Can Offer You

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job Level

TCP_05

Salary

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

• United States of America: Annual Salary USD 160,000 - 303,000 in Colorado // 172,000 - 349,000 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

The estimated job application period closure is August 28 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

Equal Employment Opportunity

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

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