Product Manager 5
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to help define and drive the strategy and roadmap for Cloud Volumes ONTAP. This role is ideal for a strong senior individual contributor who combines customer focus, technical depth, and business judgment to shape product direction and deliver measurable outcomes.
The successful candidate will work closely with GTM, cloud partners, and customers to identify growth opportunities, prioritize investments, and bring innovative capabilities to market. Success in this role depends on translating customer and market needs into clear product decisions, helping NetApp strengthen its leadership in hybrid and multi-cloud data management, and driving meaningful business impact.
Job Responsibility
- Drive the product vision, strategy, and business plans for Cloud Volumes ONTAP, ensuring alignment with customer needs, market opportunities, and company objectives.
- Identify and evaluate customer needs, market trends, and competitive developments to inform product direction and investment priorities.
- Own key areas of the product lifecycle, including discovery, planning, roadmap development, prioritization, delivery, and ongoing optimization.
- Define and prioritize product requirements that deliver differentiated value across cloud storage, data management, automation, cyber resilience, and operational simplicity.
- Partner closely with engineering leaders to translate product strategy into roadmap investments and successful customer outcomes.
- Work directly with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud teams to strengthen product integrations, align on strategic priorities, and support joint customer success.
- Define and drive the strategy for AI-driven and automation capabilities, identifying opportunities to improve usability, operational efficiency, and customer outcomes while ensuring alignment with product and business objectives.
- Gather and synthesize customer feedback, usage data, competitive insights, and market research to identify opportunities, validate investments, and guide roadmap decisions.
- Develop a strong understanding of industry trends and adjacent technologies to help shape future product investments and maintain competitive differentiation.
- Partner with product marketing, sales, support, and customer success teams to ensure effective positioning, successful launches, and strong customer adoption.
- Define and track key product and business metrics, using data to assess performance, measure customer value, and inform decision-making.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration across engineering, business, and partner teams to align priorities, manage trade-offs, and deliver measurable business results.
- Act as the voice of the customer and a trusted product leader, balancing customer needs, technical considerations, and business objectives to drive impactful outcomes.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience in, enterprise software, cloud, or storage technology businesses.
- Proven experience delivering technology products from concept through launch and ongoing iteration.
- Strong experience working across engineering, product management, GTM, marketing, support, and partner teams.
- Experience with cloud technologies is required; experience with storage technologies is a strong advantage.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and IaaS/PaaS products, especially AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Proven ability to define product requirements, prioritize effectively, and drive execution across multiple projects and stakeholders.
- Experience using customer insights, usage analytics, and market data to guide product decisions.
- Understanding of AI-driven product capabilities, automation, and emerging trends in enterprise software is an advantage.
- Familiarity with AI governance, compliance, and security considerations is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, communication, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment without relying solely on formal authority.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a strong sense of ownership and bias for action.
- Demonstrated focus on driving measurable customer and business outcomes.
Education
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, a master’s degree; or equivalent experience is required.
All internal movements within the Product Group via requisition will be lateral, offering valuable growth opportunities to extend your skills in a new area. Opportunities for a promotion will be reviewed in the normal course of business, aligned with our promotion process.
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