Product Manager - Active IQ

NetApp; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NetApp is seeking an experienced Product Manager to transform the technical support experience through workflow automation, intelligent tooling, and operational empathy. You will own tools, platforms, and processes powering our support organization, ensuring supportability is built into all deliverables.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive automation, optimize support workflows, and measure success using defined metrics such as MTTR and CSAT.

Qualifications

• 9-12 years of relevant experience with 8+ years in Product Management.
• Experience supporting technical support or service organizations.
• Proven success driving workflow automation and operational efficiency.
• Experience managing support tools, platforms, or diagnostic applications.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, agile practices, and backlog management.
• Track record improving engineer productivity and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end workflow automation across support case management.
• Define and track supportability metrics including MTTR and automation coverage.
• Partner with engineering to build diagnosable, well-logged products.
• Promote design-for-supportability across teams.
• Identify AI/ML opportunities for routing, diagnostics, and knowledge retrieval.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data-driven decision making

Jira

Confluence

Agile practices

Backlog management

Engineer productivity

Customer satisfaction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Technical Communication, English, Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure-delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

We're seeking an experienced Product Manager passionate about transforming the technical support experience through workflow automation, intelligent tooling, and deep operational empathy. This execution-focused role centers on making support engineers more effective, automating end-to-end support case workflows, and leveraging support data to continuously improve the customer and engineer experience. You'll own the tools, platforms, and processes that power our support organization ensuring supportability is built into everything we deliver.

Job Requirements

• Understand technical support engineer workflows and identify improvement opportunities.
• Drive evolution of remote support tools and support platforms.
• Leverage AutoSupport, telemetry, and diagnostic data to improve proactive support and resolution speed.
• Design and optimize support workflows, tooling, and data access.
• Lead end-to-end workflow automation across support case management.
• Define and track supportability metrics including MTTR, automation coverage, productivity, and adoption.
• Partner with engineering to build products with strong diagnosability, logging, and supportability.
• Promote a design-for-supportability mindset across teams.
• Identify AI/ML opportunities for routing, diagnostics, root cause analysis, and knowledge retrieval.

Customer Experience

• Understand customer journeys throughout the support lifecycle.
• Translate support trends and customer feedback into product improvements.
• Improve self-service, knowledge management, and support experiences.
• Monitor customer metrics including CSAT, CES, NPS, and first-contact resolution.
• Create closed-loop feedback processes between customers, support, and product teams.

Security & Compliance

• Ensure support tools and data handling comply with security and privacy standards.
• Partner with security and legal teams on governance and access controls.
• Implement secure-by-default support tooling practices.

Agile Collaboration

• Support agile squads delivering automation and customer experience initiatives.
• Create user stories, requirements, and backlog priorities.
• Partner with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to deliver incrementally.
• Drive data-informed decision making and operational excellence.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Connect support operations, engineering, data, and customer experience teams.
• Communicate insights and automation opportunities to leaders and stakeholders.
• Align tooling strategy and platform investments across organizations.

Required Qualifications

• 9-12 years of relevant experience with 8+ years in Product Management.
• Experience supporting technical support or service organizations.
• Proven success driving workflow automation and operational efficiency.
• Experience managing support tools, platforms, or diagnostic applications.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, agile practices, and backlog management.
• Track record improving engineer productivity and customer satisfaction.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with telemetry platforms and proactive support models.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted diagnostics, intelligent routing, and automation.
• Familiarity with remote support tools and knowledge management systems.
• Understanding of supportability engineering and self-service experiences.
• Experience using customer feedback and support KPIs to drive improvements

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Technical Communication, English, Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

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.

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.