Product Manager Midrange and Entry

NetApp; California; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Product Manager to lead the charge in defining and executing a compelling product strategy for their Unified storage solutions. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product offerings in both on-premise and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product management, particularly with midrange and entry systems, and a deep understanding of storage technologies. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management with a focus on hardware products.
• Strong analytical and logical skills with problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute product vision, direction, and business plans.
• Collaborate with R&D to translate market requirements into technology.

Skills

Product Management

Analytical Skills

Problem-solving Skills

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science

MBA

Tools

Tableau

SalesForce

Jira

Job description

Job Summary

NetApp is looking for a Product Manager to join the product management team, who has successfully managed Unified storage for block and file workloads with a focus on midrange and entry systems. He/she must have a track record of working in highly effective product management teams and working collaboratively with global R&D.

This is an individual role reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management. He/she will work closely with the company’s Product leadership teams, Sales, TME, Procurement, Marketing, Engineering, and Support teams to define and execute a compelling product strategy for the fastest growing segment within NetApp’s portfolio!

The ideal candidate for this role has a background in creating compelling product strategy that positions the product as an industry leader with the vision to deliver, experience in both on-premise storage hardware and software for both SAN and NAS environments, strong business acumen, and ability to pursue cross-functionally and up through the leadership chain. This role is focused on flash storage but requires an understanding of other storage types.

Position Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

1. Define and execute product vision, direction, and business plans including product plans/roadmaps, and product requirements.
2. Provide insights into the business through analytics and market research.
3. Gather, validate, and evaluate product/market requirements through market and customer research, competitive analysis, product research involving customer visits, advisory councils, industry events, analyst relationships, understanding primarily uses and associated software.
4. Collaborate with Research & Development to translate market requirements into innovative new technology.
5. Influence cross-functional teams (sales, channels, services, and marketing) to bring offer(s) to market for on-premises and cloud deployments covering CAPEX and OPEX and consumption-based pricing and As-a-Service offerings.
6. Manage pricing and work with supply chain, procurement, and vendor partners to improve margins and/or reduce costs.
7. Prioritize product requirements to support multiple phase release schedules.
8. Able to independently resolve most blockers and raise major issues proactively.
9. Coordinate with Engineering and Sales to facilitate BETA testing activities with end users/testers.
10. Translate system functionality into a business-relevant language.

Minimum Requirements:

1. 8+ years in product management.
2. Experience in hardware product management with a focus on Midrange and Entry systems.
3. Experience in server, networking, and storage technology related experience for data centers, on-premises and understanding of storage technologies such as FCP, iSCSI, NVMe, SMB, NFSv3/NFSv4, S3, SATA, SAS, RAID, and erasure coding topology.
4. Knowledge with backup and disaster recovery architectures for SAN and NAS environments.
5. Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary.
6. Work on the technical issues reported by customers on the new/deployed product.
7. Strong analytical and logical skills.
8. Ability to build and/or use tools for BOM, Sizing, Pricing, etc. purposes.
9. Problem-solving and organizational skills.
10. Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
11. Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
12. Experience working with teams across geographies and business units.
13. Excellent listening, oral, and written communication/presentation skills with a strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions.
14. BA/BS required, in Computer Science or related technical degree preferred.

Preferred Requirements:

1. Experience with Tableau, SalesForce, Jira.
2. Hands-on experience on provisioning of storage devices for out-of-box experience.
3. Deep knowledge around CPUs, GPUs, and DPUs and PCIe, NVMe, and SSDs.
4. Ability to identify, analyze, and solve ambiguous problems with extreme attention to detail.
5. MBA.

Travel Requirements:
15% to 25% of travel will be required.