Vice President, Product Management — Data Center Networking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 544,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Personal & Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP is seeking a senior product executive to define and lead the product strategy for data center networking, emphasizing open networking, SONiC, AI-ready infrastructure, automation, and cloud-native customer requirements.

The role requires translating market needs into a differentiated portfolio strategy and executing a roadmap, uniting product, engineering, sales, GTM, and ecosystem teams across a global organization.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of product management and leadership experience in data center networking or related tech.
• Proven success defining portfolio strategy and delivering products from concept through launch.
• Strong understanding of open networking, SONiC or similar OS, data center fabrics, automation and ecosystems.
• Experience serving enterprise, cloud, service provider, or AI infrastructure customers.
• Proven ability to lead through influence across engineering, sales, finance and partners.

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 and priorities.
• 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 launches and adoption.
• Build and lead a senior product management team with clear operating mechanisms and talent development.
• Engage strategic customers and ecosystem partners to validate requirements and accelerate adoption.

Skills

Data center networking

Open networking

SONiC

Automation

Cloud-native

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

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.

Why Join Us

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.

Salary

– 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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