Sr. Product Manager

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

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 drive results, innovate to elevate, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

Instaclustr is looking for a Product Manager – AI Market Segment to join our dynamic Product Management team as we expand our open‑source‑as‑a‑service platform for agentic AI. This role sits at the intersection of AI innovation and product strategy—perfect for someone who thrives on turning cutting‑edge technology into real‑world impact.

As part of NetApp, Instaclustr empowers companies to run powerful open‑source technologies like Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and OpenSearch—at scale and with confidence. Our platform handles everything from provisioning to production reliability, so our customers can focus on building great applications. By leveraging our proven platform‑based delivery, open source innovation, and NetApp storage, we’ve become uniquely positioned to lead in hyperscaler‑agnostic application data infrastructure for agentic AI.

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.

Job Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in product management, including experience with developer and focused products.
• Strong understanding of AI‑related customer objectives and problems, market trends and key concepts.
• Excellent capability to facilitate and manage planning in demanding stakeholder environments.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong business acumen.

Ideally

• Understanding and experience with open source products such as those offered by Instaclustr (Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, Cadence, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL).
• Technical understanding of key cloud architecture concepts.

Education

Bachelors Degree or higher is preferred.

Compensation

The target salary range for this position is 196,350 - 292,600 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate’s location, qualifications, experience and education and may be outside of this range.

Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. Benefits may include Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance‑Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations and company policies.

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.