Core Storage Product Manager

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** Function
* * Product Management#
** Our Company
** We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.#

** Job description
**** Our Company
** We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
** What You Will be Doing
** Hitachi Vantara is seeking an experienced Product Manager to own and drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution of core storage products and APIs. This role focuses on delivering high‐performance, scalable, and reliable data storage capabilities that solve real customer problems and support Hitachi’s long‐term platform vision.
** Job Responsibilities
*** Own the product vision, roadmap, and lifecycle for core storage capabilities and APIs, aligning business objectives with customer needs and long‐term platform strategy.
* Define product requirements and success metrics for data path, management plane, and control plane capabilities, translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable requirements.
* Partner closely with engineering, product marketing, and sales teams to prioritize features, make tradeoffs, and deliver high‐quality releases on time.
* Lead requirements and prioritization for storage services such as data protection, replication, deduplication, compression, tiering, and availability, ensuring they deliver measurable customer value.
* Act as the voice of the customer, incorporating feedback from customers, field teams, support, and partners into the product backlog and roadmap.
* Drive API product strategy, ensuring APIs are consistent, well‐documented, easy to consume, and aligned with ecosystem and partner integration needs.
* Collaborate with performance and architecture teams to set and validate product‐level performance goals, such as latency, throughput, and scalability targets.
* Evaluate market trends, competitive offerings, and emerging technologies in enterprise storage, cloud, and distributed systems to inform product direction.
* Support go‐to‐market readiness by contributing to product positioning, technical collateral, feature documentation, and internal enablement.
* Clearly communicate product plans, progress, and tradeoffs to stakeholders across engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership.
** What You Will Bring to the Team
*** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
* 5+ years of experience in product management or technical product ownership, preferably in storage systems, infrastructure software, or cloud platforms.
* Strong understanding of enterprise block storage concepts.
* Familiarity with storage protocols and interfaces (e.g., SCSI, NVMe, iSCSI, Fibre Channel sufficient to make informed product and prioritization decisions.
* Experience owning or defining APIs as a product, including requirements for RESTful APIs and/or gRPC, versioning, and lifecycle management.
* Working knowledge of data protection, replication, availability,…