Senior Product Manager, SD-WAN

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Location :
San Jose

Extreme Networks is seeking a Senior Product Manager for SD-WAN to own product strategy, roadmap, and market delivery for AI-driven, cloud-managed SD-WAN solutions. This role will connect branch routing, network security, cloud integrations, and Fabric-to-the-Edge strategy to help enterprises modernize for a cloud-first, AI-powered future.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, this high-impact role owns a strategic product line and partners across engineering, GTM, sales, and customers to strengthen Extreme’s position in the SD-WAN market.

• Define the SD-WAN vision, roadmap, priority use cases, and AI-driven automation strategy
• Use market, customer, and competitive insights to identify differentiation and prioritize investments
• Build a compelling product narrative around cloud-managed SD-WAN, edge intelligence, and self-healing networks

• Lead Fabric-to-the-Edge use cases that connect data center fabric, branch SD-WAN, routing, switching, and policy automation
• Position SD-WAN as a key enabler of unified edge management and distributed services

• Translate customer and market needs into clear engineering requirements, priorities, and specifications
• Partner with engineering on architecture, feasibility, trade-offs, and delivery planning

• Lead planning, check-ins, retrospectives, and launch readiness across engineering, QA, product marketing, and sales
• Align teams on OKRs, milestones, trade-offs, and product decisions

• Evolve SD-WAN with Extreme’s SaaS cloud platform, analytics, automation, and network services
• Support subscription and consumption models while ensuring operational excellence, security, and compliance

• Partner with sales and product marketing on messaging, positioning, enablement, battle cards, and training
• Shape MSP, channel, pricing, packaging, and bundling strategies to drive adoption and expansion

• Engage customers, partners, advisory boards, and escalations to turn feedback into product insight
• Drive innovation in network visibility, intelligence, and AI-assisted operations

• 10+ years in product management, including 5+ years in SaaS, SD-WAN, Routing, cloud networking, security, or enterprise infrastructure
• Proven record shipping products or major features that drove adoption, revenue, or market differentiation /li
• Experience in B2B networking, security, infrastructure, or platform software markets

• Strong understanding of enterprise networking, SD-WAN architecture, routing, switching, branch gateways, appliance hardware, and cloud connectivity
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, hybrid/multi-cloud architectures, AIOps, network analytics, and fabric/edge use cases

• Experience with unified cloud-managed platforms, SaaS, multi-tenant systems, subscription models, and managed networking services
• Experience with SD-WAN hardware platforms, appliance lifecycle, performance benchmarks, operational characteristics, MSPs, and channel ecosystems

• Strong cross-functional leadership, executive communication, analytical thinking, and customer empathy
• Comfort working through ambiguity, making trade-offs, and adapting to market…