Strategic Storage Portfolio Leader for Data Center Infra

Dell Technologies Inc.; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies seeks a Product Manager for Storage Solutions Portfolio Planning to shape the roadmap, strategy, and lifecycle of storage systems used in large-scale server infrastructure. You will collaborate with engineering, supply chain, and finance teams to drive cost-effective, scalable deployments.

Main focus includes evaluating new storage technologies, building business cases, and managing portfolio transitions to meet business needs while balancing performance and power constraints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Supply Chain, Business, or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in product management, hardware planning, infrastructure strategy, or related fields.
• Experience with server, storage, or datacenter hardware technologies.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing business cases, investment analyses, and technology roadmaps.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional programs.
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end storage hardware portfolio strategy supporting datacenter infra.
• Develop multi-year storage roadmaps aligned with business growth, infrastructure requirements, and technology transitions.
• Evaluate and recommend investment strategies across HDD, SSD, NVMe, computational storage, and emerging storage technologies.
• Build portfolio plans that balance performance, reliability, cost, power, sustainability, and supply continuity objectives.
• Drive generation-to-generation technology transitions and retirement strategies.
• Define storage product requirements and platform adoption plans across server hardware programs.
• Partner with solution architects and engineering teams to establish future storage requirements and technology needs.
• Analyze industry trends, supplier roadmaps, technology advancements, and competitive offerings.
• Lead business cases for new storage technologies and architecture.
• Develop cost models and performance/value assessments for portfolio decisions.
• Engage storage component suppliers to influence roadmaps and secure alignment.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities, capacity plans, manufacturing readiness, and differentiation.
• Drive supplier selection recommendations with procurement and supply chain teams.
• Translate infrastructure growth forecasts into storage portfolio demand plans.
• Develop long-term supply and capacity strategies to support business requirements.
• Identify supply chain risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Ensure continuity of supply during tech migrations and scaling events.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, operations, finance, sourcing, quality, and suppliers.
• Present recommendations and tradeoff analyses to senior leadership.
• Establish portfolio KPIs and measure business outcomes.
• Influence stakeholders across organizations without direct authority.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Executive presentation

Cross-functional leadership

Investment analyses

Technology roadmaps

Hardware planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Supply Chain, Business, or related technical discipline

Job description

Dell Technologies seeks a Product Manager for Storage Solutions Portfolio Planning to shape the roadmap, strategy, and lifecycle of storage systems used in large-scale server infrastructure. You will collaborate with engineering, supply chain, and finance teams to drive cost-effective, scalable deployments.

Main focus includes evaluating new storage technologies, building business cases, and managing portfolio transitions to meet business needs while balancing performance and power constraints.