Senior Product Manager, AI Market & Open-Source Platform

NetApp; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 196,350 - 292,600; Full time

Job summary

NetApp in collaboration with Instaclustr seeks a Product Manager – AI Market Segment to shepherd an open‑source‑as‑a‑service platform for agentic AI. You will shape product strategy at the intersection of AI innovation and practical product execution, influencing scope from provisioning to production reliability.

The role requires 8+ years in product management, strong AI market insight, and ability to align engineering, GTM, and executives around a compelling value proposition.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product management.
• Strong understanding of AI-related customer objectives and problems.
• Excellent capability to facilitate and manage planning in demanding stakeholder environments.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong business acumen.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the problem space in the AI market segment through market awareness, customer discovery and experimentation.
• Developing and maintaining a segment vision, crafting and evangelizing compelling narratives (“working backwards” stories), that align and inspire product, engineering, GTM and execs around a compelling value proposition for the target segment.
• Being a credible expert in the AI market segment to support and drive GTM efforts including crafting compelling narratives to drive sales plays, sales conversations with high‑value opportunities through to conference presentations.
• Serving as an escalation and resolution point for critical priority calls within the AI market segment, whether that is an individual strategic customer issue or broader prioritisation calls.

Skills

Product management

AI market understanding

Stakeholder management

Communication

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

NetApp in collaboration with Instaclustr seeks a Product Manager – AI Market Segment to shepherd an open‑source‑as‑a‑service platform for agentic AI. You will shape product strategy at the intersection of AI innovation and practical product execution, influencing scope from provisioning to production reliability.

The role requires 8+ years in product management, strong AI market insight, and ability to align engineering, GTM, and executives around a compelling value proposition.