Vice President, Product Management — Data Center Networking

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (TX); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 544,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is seeking a Vice President of Product Management for Data Center Networking to define the strategy and roadmap for open networking, SONiC, and cloud-native infrastructure.

You will translate market needs into differentiated portfolio decisions, drive cross-functional alignment, and lead a high‑performing product team to deliver launches and sustained adoption across enterprise, cloud, and AI environments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in product management and leadership in data center networking.
• Proven track record delivering portfolio strategy from concept to launch.
• Strong knowledge of open networking, SONiC, data center fabrics, automation.
• Experience serving enterprise, cloud, service provider, or AI infra customers.
• Executive communication and cross‑functional influence across orgs.

Responsibilities

• Set multi‑year product strategy and roadmap for data center networking, including open networking and SONiC.
• Identify priority customer segments, use cases, and market opportunities.
• Translate insights into clear product requirements and portfolio decisions.
• Partner with engineering and architecture to balance innovation, quality, and time to market.
• Drive alignment across product, sales, go‑to‑market, finance and partners.
• Build and lead a senior product management team with accountable operations.
• Engage strategic customers and ecosystem partners to validate requirements.
• Define business objectives, monitor performance, and adjust strategy.
• Represent portfolio with executive stakeholders and external forums.

Skills

Data center networking

Product strategy

Open networking

SONiC

Executive leadership

Portfolio management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Team development

Engineering collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, CS or business

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.