Product Line Manager, Session Smart Router (SSR)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Job summary
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Product Line Manager to drive the Session Smart Router portfolio. This hybrid role favors candidates near Westford, MA, with travel as needed. You will partner with engineering, field and customers to shape strategy, roadmap priorities, releases and the overall SSR experience.
The ideal candidate has deep networking knowledge, speaks business and technical language, and can lead cross-functional initiatives across software, hardware and cloud platforms.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of enterprise or service-provider networking experience.
- 5+ years in product management, technical marketing, solutions architecture, engineering, or a related technical role.
- Strong knowledge of routing and networking technologies such as BGP, OSPF, segmentation, high availability, QoS, IPsec, and NAT.
- Experience with SD-WAN, network security, or related networking technologies.
- Experience working across engineering, support, field, and customer-facing organizations.
- Knowledge of SSR, 128 Technology, Secure Vector Routing, Conductor, Mist WAN Assurance, or comparable SD-WAN technologies.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the SSR product roadmap across software, management, and hardware.
- Partner with engineering, QA, and program management to establish release priorities, manage dependencies, and communicate product commitments.
- Translate customer, field, and market requirements into clear product requirements and priorities.
- Support strategic customer engagements, technical discussions, and product escalations.
- Partner with engineering, security, support, and other stakeholders on product security, compliance, and customer communications.
- Support requirements for federal and regulated markets, including applicable security, certification, and compliance initiatives.
- Drive improvements to deployment, upgrade, sizing, and product documentation across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
- Partner with engineering and hardware product teams on platform requirements, performance, scale, lifecycle, and capacity planning.
- Support product lifecycle activities including pricing, licensing, SKU management, offer transitions, and field readiness.
- Develop product positioning and technical enablement for sales, solution engineers, partners, and customers.
- Use AI and other productivity tools responsibly to improve product requirements, documentation, research, and operational efficiency.
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Product Line Manager, Session Smart Router (SSR) This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
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.
Position Summary
Open to candidates located anywhere in the United States, with a preference for candidates near Westford, Massachusetts and/or a major airport. Occasional travel may be required. HPE Networking is seeking a Product Line Manager to help drive the Session Smart Router (SSR) portfolio. In this highly technical individual contributor role, you will partner with product, engineering, field, and customer-facing teams to help shape product strategy, roadmap priorities, releases, and the overall customer experience. You will translate customer and market requirements into clear product priorities while helping ensure SSR solutions are deployable, supportable, secure, and well documented. The ideal candidate combines strong networking and SD-WAN knowledge with product management experience and the ability to work effectively across technical, business, and customer-facing teams.
- Help define and execute the SSR product roadmap across software, management, and hardware platforms.
- Partner with engineering, QA, and program management to establish release priorities, manage dependencies, and communicate product commitments.
- Translate customer, field, and market requirements into clear product requirements and priorities.
- Support strategic customer engagements, technical discussions, and product escalations.
- Partner with engineering, security, support, and other stakeholders on product security, compliance, and customer communications.
- Support requirements for federal and regulated markets, including applicable security, certification, and compliance initiatives.
- Drive improvements to deployment, upgrade, sizing, and product documentation across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
- Partner with engineering and hardware product teams on platform requirements, performance, scale, lifecycle, and capacity planning.
- Support product lifecycle activities including pricing, licensing, SKU management, offer transitions, and field readiness.
- Develop product positioning and technical enablement for sales, solution engineers, partners, and customers.
- Use AI and other productivity tools responsibly to improve product requirements, documentation, research, and operational efficiency.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise or service-provider networking.
- 5+ years of experience in product management, technical marketing, solutions architecture, engineering, or a related technical role.
- Strong knowledge of routing and networking technologies such as BGP, OSPF, segmentation, high availability, QoS, IPsec, and NAT.
- Experience with SD-WAN, network security, or related networking technologies.
- Experience working across engineering, support, field, and customer-facing organizations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical topics to technical and business audiences.
- Experience with Session Smart Router, 128 Technology, Secure Vector Routing, Conductor, Mist WAN Assurance, or comparable SD-WAN technologies.
- Experience supporting federal or regulated markets and associated security or compliance requirements.
- Experience with product security processes, security advisories, or security-related customer communications.Knowledge of networking hardware lifecycle, product pricing, licensing, or SKU management.
- Networking or security certifications such as JNCIE, CCIE, CISSP, or equivalent expertise.
- Ability to travel for customer engagements, planning sessions, and industry events, as needed.
- Ability to support occasional critical global customer situations outside standard business hours.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for applicable federal customer engagements.
HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here. Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.
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.
United States of America: Annual Salary USD 178,000.00 - 339,000 in Massachusetts
Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html
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HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here. Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.
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