[Remote] Sr. Product Manager- Platforms
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NetApp is an enterprise storage and data-management company hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead strategy, roadmaps, and lifecycle management for ONTAP systems platforms. The role owns platform positioning, new product introduction programs, competitive requirements, lifecycle transitions, and cross-functional execution with Engineering, Operations, marketing, finance, supply chain, and field sales.
Responsibilities
- Own and continually refine the ONTAP systems platform strategy, aligned to NetApp's Enterprise Storage strategy and competitive requirements
- Develop and maintain multi-generation platform roadmaps with Engineering and Operations, with clear prioritization across performance and capacity tiers, form factors, and technology transitions
- Define positioning and swim-lane guidance across the portfolio to reduce field ambiguity and improve deal velocity
- Track business and transition metrics (adoption, capacity growth, and $/GB economics) and translate them into roadmap, packaging, and pricing actions
- Lead concurrent NPI programs across platforms and components, driving requirements, prioritization, and cross-functional execution with Engineering and Operations through all lifecycle phases
- Define clear, well-structured product requirements for planning, Engineering, and Operations, aligned to launch schedules and customer commitments
- Own product lifecycle discipline across the portfolio, including EOA/EOL strategy, stocking and configuration optimization, and sustaining strategy for shipping systems, working closely with Operations and Engineering
- Gather and synthesize requirements from enterprise customers, the field, and partners to inform platform priorities and design decisions
- Own competitive positioning against key enterprise storage vendors, translating gaps into requirements, roadmap actions, and field guidance
- Convert customer and market needs into product requirements, business cases, and prescriptive positioning that connect platform investment to win rates and revenue impact
- Partner with Product Marketing so platform advancements show up in messaging, workload solution stories, and field enablement
- Develop platform packaging, configuration guidance, and field-facing documentation that support consistent, scalable selling and deployment
- Monitor adoption, deployment, and quoting friction signals; drive corrective actions that improve customer time-to-value, coordinating with Engineering and Operations as needed
- Serve as a primary point of accountability for the platform across Engineering, Operations, supply chain, finance, marketing, and field sales
- Partner day-to-day with Engineering and Operations leaders to align requirements, schedules, capacity, quality, and launch readiness
- Communicate strategy, roadmap, and tradeoffs clearly to executive leadership and field organizations
- Influence platform-level decisions that span multiple product lines and generations
- A clear, multi-generation platform roadmap that Engineering, Operations, and the field can execute against
- Concurrent NPI programs delivered with high-quality requirements, prioritized tradeoffs, and on-time launch readiness through close partnership with Engineering and Operations
- Portfolio swim-lanes and positioning that reduce field ambiguity and quoting friction
- Lifecycle plans (including end of availability / end of life (EOA/EOL) and sustaining) that protect customer commitments and business economics
- Competitive gaps translated into requirements, roadmap actions, and field guidance that improve win rate and adoption
- Trusted partnership with senior leadership, Engineering, and Operations on roadmap, transitions, and platform-level tradeoffs
Skills
- 8+ years of product management or technical product planning experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, or related hardware/software domains
- Strong understanding of enterprise storage systems and architectures, including NAS and SAN protocols and modern data center infrastructure
- Proven experience leading complex NPI programs through the full lifecycle: concept> requirements > development > GA > sustaining
- Experience driving cross-functional execution with Engineering, Operations, supply chain, finance, and go-to-market teams
- Strong communication and executive presence, with the ability to represent complex platform tradeoffs clearly to senior stakeholders
- Familiarity with NetApp ONTAP or comparable unified storage data services, and how platform hardware enables performance, density, and supportability
- Experience with storage economics ($/GB), capacity/performance tiering, and platform generation transitions
- Direct competitive experience against major enterprise storage vendors
- Experience positioning storage for AI, virtualization, mission-critical databases, and other enterprise worklo
- Experience creating field-facing packaging, configuration guidance, or enablement content
- Demonstrated success partnering closely with Engineering and Operations on complex platform programs
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience preferred
Benefits
- Potential commission earned when performance targets are achieved
- Comprehensive benefits package, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
- Health Insurance, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
- Life Insurance, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
- Retirement or Pension Plans, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
- Paid Time Off, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
- Various Leave options, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
- Employee stock purchase plan, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
- Restricted stocks (RSU’s), subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
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