VP, Product Management, Cloud

NetApp; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 315,000 - 407,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

RSUs

Paid time off

Job summary

NetApp seeks a highly experienced Vice President of Product for Cloud to own the long-term vision and execution for first-party cloud offerings, shaping cloud strategy for storage and AI, and collaborating with hyperscaler leaders to drive growth.

You will lead a global product organization, drive category-leading cloud services, and transform emerging cloud capabilities into valued products customers love.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in technical product management with 10+ years leading enterprise/platform PM teams.
• Experience building high-scale cloud-native products.
• Proficiency in building and operating cloud services PnL.
• Experience leading a large organization with revenue and market-share growth.
• Strong customer discovery with ambiguity-to-clarity translation.
• Storage tech familiarity is advantageous.
• Strong communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Servant leadership with authentic, coaching style.
• Up-to-date with hyperscalers and AI trends for innovation.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic product leadership for NetApp's first-party cloud services, defining vision and execution to build category-leading cloud businesses.
• Build and scale customer-centric products delivering sustained revenue growth.
• Own the complete product lifecycle from market opportunities to scaling services.
• Drive product innovation by understanding workloads, cloud architectures, and hyperscaler capabilities.
• Collaborate with hyperscaler product/engineering to influence platform direction and opportunities.
• Identify growth vectors and expand into adjacent markets with durable advantage.
• Lead multiple engineering teams to ensure high quality and cloud-scale reliability.
• Recruit and develop a world-class product organization with ownership and accountability.

Skills

PM leadership

Cloud native

Revenue growth

Customer discovery

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic vision

Executive partnerships

Hyperscalers & AI

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related

MBA preferred

Tools

Storage technologies

Job description

Own Every Moment at NetAppAt 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.

Own Every Moment at NetAppAt 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 innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

Location: Sanjose or Seattle

NetApp is seeking a highly technically skilled and force multiplier Vice President of Product for Cloud. This role sits at the intersection of product innovation, cloud platforms, and business growth. It owns the long‑term vision, strategy, and execution for one or more of NetApp’s first‑party cloud offerings, transforming emerging cloud capabilities into products customers love and businesses that materially contribute to NetApp’s growth. The role shapes our cloud strategy both for storage and AI, influences hyperscaler platforms, and builds the next generation of cloud storage services that strengthen NetApp’s leadership in enterprise data infrastructure.

Job Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic product leadership for one or more of NetApp’s first‑party cloud services, defining the vision, strategy, and execution needed to build category‑leading cloud businesses.
• Build and scale customer‑centric products and services that solve meaningful enterprise problems, translating market opportunities into products and services customers love and businesses that deliver sustained revenue growth.
• Own the complete product lifecycle - from identifying new market opportunities and incubating new offerings to scaling existing services into multi‑hundred‑million‑dollar businesses.
• Drive product innovation by deeply understanding customer workloads, cloud architectures, and emerging hyperscaler capabilities, building differentiated offerings that create lasting competitive advantage.
• Work directly with hyperscaler product and engineering organizations to influence platform direction, accelerate innovation, and unlock new opportunities for NetApp’s cloud portfolio.
• Build businesses, not just products - identifying new growth vectors, expanding into adjacent markets, increasing customer adoption, and creating durable competitive advantage.
• Lead product strategy across multiple engineering teams, ensuring complex initiatives are delivered with high quality, operational excellence, and cloud‑scale reliability.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a world‑class product organization with high standards for technical depth, customer obsession, ownership, and execution.
• Build trusted executive relationships with hyperscalers product and engineering leaders, strategic customers, and ecosystem partners to accelerate product innovation and business growth, while maintaining clear accountability for NetApp‑owned product outcomes.
• Represent NetApp externally with customers, analysts, industry leaders, and at major conferences, helping shape the industry’s view of enterprise cloud storage and AI data infrastructure.
• Build an organization that combines startup velocity with enterprise discipline - raising the technical bar, making principled product decisions, executing relentlessly, and creating products that scale globally.

Key Qualifications

• 15+ years of technical product management experience with 10+ years leading enterprise or platform PM teams.
• Experience building products with high scale and as cloud native services.
• Proficiency in building and operating cloud services PnL.
• Experience in leading a complex large organization and driving revenue and market share growth.
• Strong customer discovery background with the ability to translate ambiguity into clarity.
• Experience in storage technologies is advantageous but not required.
• Strong verbal and written communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with cross‑functional teams.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to dive deep, strong ownership and sense of urgency to drive innovation to delight customers
• Genuinely a servant leader. You have authentic leadership that arises not from exercise of power or self‑interested actions but from a fundamental desire to first help, coach, mentor others and make them great.
• Up to date with the latest advancements and trends in Hyperscalers as well as in the field of AI and ability to leverage that knowledge to drive innovation and deliver best‑in‑class solutions.

Education

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field
• Master’s in business administration preferred but not mandatory

Compensation

The target salary range for this position is 314,500 - 407,000 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. This may cover 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. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.

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.

Why You’ll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise‑grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one.

Submitting an Application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision‑making.