Director, Product Management – Enterprise Systems

• 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 Net App'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

• 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 Net App 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

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.

• Product Management
• Enterprise Storage Architectures
• Cross-Functional Execution
• People Leadership
• Net App ONTAP

• Product Strategy
• Roadmap Development
• Lifecycle Management
• Competitive Positioning
• Storage Economics
• System Definition
• Requirements Gathering
• Performance Analysis
• Go-To-Market Strategy
• Technical Product Planning

• Executive Presence
• Communication
• Coaching
• Influencing

• Enterprise Infrastructure
• All-Flash Systems
• File Protocols
• Block Protocols
• Data-Center Infrastructure
• AI Workloads
• Virtualization
• Mission-Critical Applications