Product Manager Unified Storage - Flash

NetApp; California; On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Product Manager to lead the product management team. This role involves managing Unified storage for block and file workloads, collaborating with diverse teams, and executing a compelling product strategy. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product management, particularly in hardware, and a strong understanding of storage technologies. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a dynamic environment focused on innovative solutions that bridge the gap between traditional and high-performance storage media. If you're ready to make an impact and drive product vision, this role is for you!

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Gather and evaluate product/market requirements through research.
• Collaborate with R&D to translate market needs into technology.

Skills

Product Management

Analytical Skills

Problem-solving Skills

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science

MBA

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

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 in larger enterprise companies. He/she has 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 Product leadership teams, Sales, TME, Procurement, Marketing, Engineering and Support teams to execute a compelling product strategy working on the fastest growing segment within NetApp’s portfolio!

The ideal candidate for this role has a background in building and scaling product(s), strong technical hardware and business acumen, and vision to deliver product(s) that transforms the industry and most importantly has a software and hardware background around SAN and NAS and storage technologies for on-premises. This role is focused on all flash unified storage, which is an evolving market bridging the gap between spinning media and high-performance flash media.

Position Responsibilities & Essential functions

1. Gather, validate, and evaluate product/market requirements through market and customer research, competitive and product research involving customer visits, advisory councils, industry events, analyst relationships, etc.
2. Provide insights into the business through analytics and market research in collaboration with Product and Technical Marketing, the data analytics and the Procurement teams.
3. Coordinate with engineering and the field to facilitate BETA testing activities with end users/testers.
4. Translate system functionality into a business relevant language.
5. Influence pricing and cross functional requirements (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 and procurement and vendor partners to improve margins and/or reduce costs.
7. Collaborate with R&D to translate market requirements into innovative new technology and with support to deliver solutions that have fast time-to-value and accelerate time-to-revenue.
8. Execute product vision, direction, and business plans, including product plans/roadmaps, product evolution and product lifecycle process.
9. Exhibits advanced wide-ranging experience, using in-depth professional knowledge, acumen, concepts and company objectives to develop, resolve complex models and procedures.
10. Provides solutions to issues in creative and effective ways.
11. Understands the interrelationships of different disciplines.
12. Able to independently resolve most blockers and raise major issues proactively.

Job Requirements

Minimum requirements:

1. 8+ years in product management.
2. Experience in hardware product management.
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.
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 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, PowerBI, 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 is required.