Vice President, Product Management — Data Center Networking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company in; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 544,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible to manage work and personal l

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a seasoned Vice President of Product Management for Data Center Networking, with a focus on open networking, SONiC, and AI-ready infrastructure. The role requires translating market needs into a differentiated portfolio strategy and leading a cross-functional team across engineering, sales, and finance.

You will shape multi-year roadmaps, engage strategic customers, and ensure successful launches with measurable adoption, while aligning with executive

Qualifications

• 15+ years of product management and leadership in data center networking.
• Proven ability to define portfolio strategy and drive launches.
• Strong understanding of open networking, SONiC, and cloud-native infra.
• Experience serving enterprise, cloud, service provider, or AI infra customers.
• Ability to lead across engineering, sales, finance and partners.
• Executive communication and decision-making in ambiguity.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS, or business; advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year product strategy and roadmap for data center networking.
• Identify priority customer segments and market opportunities.
• Translate insights into product requirements and portfolio decisions.
• Partner with engineering and architecture to balance innovation and time-to-market.
• Drive alignment across product, sales, go-to-market, finance, services and partners.
• Build and lead a senior product management team.
• Engage strategic customers and ecosystem partners to validate requirements.
• Define business objectives and monitor performance.

Skills

Executive leadership

Product strategy

Open networking

SONiC

Data center networking

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering/CS/Business

Job description

Vice President, Product Management — Data Center Networking (Finance)

Vice President, Product Management — Data Center Networking (Finance)

Vice President, Product Management - Data Center Networking

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

HPE Networking is seeking a senior product executive to define and lead the product strategy for data center networking, with an emphasis on open networking, SONiC, AI-ready infrastructure, automation, and cloud-native customer requirements. This leader will translate market and customer needs into a differentiated portfolio strategy and executable roadmap, bringing together product, engineering, architecture, sales, go-to-market, and ecosystem teams.

The successful candidate will combine deep data center networking expertise with strong product judgment, commercial orientation, and the ability to influence across a complex global organization.

• Set the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for HPE's data center networking portfolio, including open networking and SONiC-based capabilities.
• Identify priority customer segments, use cases, and market opportunities across enterprise, cloud-native, service provider, and AI-ready data center environments.
• Translate customer, competitive, and ecosystem insights into clear product requirements, investment priorities, and portfolio decisions.
• Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to balance innovation, quality, time to market, and commercial outcomes.
• Drive alignment across product, sales, go-to-market, finance, services, and partner organizations to deliver successful launches and sustained adoption.
• Build and lead a senior product management team, establishing clear operating mechanisms, accountability, and talent development.
• Engage strategic customers and ecosystem partners to validate requirements, accelerate adoption, and strengthen HPE's position in open, automated data center networking.
• Define business objectives and success measures, monitor performance, and adjust strategy based on market and customer signals.
• Represent the portfolio with executive stakeholders and in appropriate external industry and customer forums.

What You'll Bring

• 15+ years of product management and business leadership experience in data center networking, switching, network operating systems, infrastructure software, or a closely related technology field.
• Demonstrated success defining portfolio strategy and delivering products from concept through launch, adoption, and growth.
• Strong understanding of open networking, SONiC or comparable network operating systems, data center fabrics, automation, and relevant hardware and software ecosystems.
• Experience serving enterprise, cloud, service provider, or AI infrastructure customers and converting complex technical needs into differentiated offerings.
• Proven ability to lead through influence across engineering, architecture, sales, go-to-market, finance, and partner organizations.
• Strong executive communication, customer engagement, and decision-making skills, including the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Experience building and developing high-performing product teams.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.

Leadership Profile

• Strategic and market-oriented, with the ability to connect technology choices to customer outcomes and business value.
• Executive communication, able to distill complex information for different audiences, especially executives; strong thought leadership; collaborative and influential style; succinct and clear in both written and verbal communication.
• Collaborative and decisive, able to create alignment while making disciplined portfolio tradeoffs.
• Credible with senior technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
• Customer-focused, curious, and committed to building products that are differentiated, reliable, and easy to adopt.

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

Vice President

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
- United States of America: Annual Salary USD 260,000 - 544,000 in California // 260,000 - 544,000 in Texas
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

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