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Job description
Lead, develop, and coach a team of product managers responsible for AFF systems and next-generation platform programs
Set team priorities, operating cadence, and delivery standards; serve as point of accountability for the AFF franchise
Represent the portfolio to senior leadership and communicate strategy, tradeoffs, and business performance
Own product strategy for NetApp's AFF systems and define positioning across the broader portfolio
Define and drive next-generation strategy for engineered systems with shared architectures across multiple product lines
Develop and maintain multi-generation roadmaps across performance and capacity tiers, form factors, and technology transitions
Track adoption, mix, capacity growth, and economics and translate metrics into roadmap, pricing, and go-to-market actions
Drive concurrent new-product programs from requirements through qualification, general availability, sustaining, and end of life
Ensure product requirements for engineering, operations, and planning are clear, prioritized, and aligned to launch commitments
Own lifecycle discipline, including generation transitions, configuration optimization, and sustaining strategy
Synthesize enterprise customer, field, and partner requirements into platform priorities and design decisions
Own competitive positioning and convert gaps into requirements and actions that improve win rates
Connect platform investments to customer outcomes and business impact through business cases and prescriptive positioning
Partner with product marketing and the field on messaging, positioning guidance, and enablement
Coordinate engineering, supply chain, operations, finance, marketing, and sales for the AFF systems portfolio
Influence architecture and system-level decisions spanning multiple product lines and generations
Requirements
12+ years of product management or technical product planning experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, or related hardware/software domains
5+ years leading product managers or equivalent people-leadership of a technical product team
Proven ownership of a high-revenue hardware and/or systems product line, including roadmap, new product introduction, lifecycle, and business outcomes
Strong understanding of enterprise storage architectures, including all-flash systems, file and block protocols, and modern data-center infrastructure
Experience partnering with engineering on next-generation system definition, including architectures shared across more than one product line
Experience driving cross-functional execution across engineering, supply chain, operations, finance, and go-to-market
Executive presence and ability to represent complex platform and business tradeoffs to senior leadership
Familiarity with NetApp ONTAP or comparable unified storage platforms
Experience with storage economics, mix across performance and capacity offerings, and platform generation transitions
Experience positioning storage for AI, virtualization, mission-critical applications, and other enterprise workloads
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in product management for enterprise infrastructure, particularly in all-flash systems and storage architectures. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive product strategy, and connect technical investments to business outcomes.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Product Management
Enterprise Storage Architectures
Cross-Functional Execution
People Leadership
NetApp ONTAP
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
Product Strategy
Roadmap Development
Lifecycle Management
Competitive Positioning
Storage Economics
System Definition
Requirements Gathering
Performance Analysis
Go-To-Market Strategy
Technical Product Planning
Soft Skills
Executive Presence
Communication
Coaching
Influencing
Industry Keywords
Enterprise Infrastructure
All-Flash Systems
File Protocols
Block Protocols
Data-Center Infrastructure
AI Workloads
Virtualization
Mission-Critical Applications
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Worksite address
san jose, CA, 95199, US
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