Sr. Director, Product Management

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community.

We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

We are seeking a strategic, results-driven Senior Director of Product Management to drive the growth and expansion of our networking solutions portfolio. This role requires strong people's leadership skills, including proven experience building, leading, and developing high-performing product management teams.

This position will be based at our headquarters located in San Jose, CA.

Includes the following essential duties and responsibilities (other duties may also be assigned):

• Represent the company as a credible networking expert in customer meetings, partner discussions, industry events, and executive-level engagements.
• Serve as a senior technical and business interface for executive reviews, customer briefings, roadmap discussions, and strategic planning sessions.
• Lead the design of network solutions by translating business, application, and infrastructure requirements into scalable Ethernet fabric architectures, including topology design, switch selection, optics/cabling strategy, rack integration, power and cooling considerations, and deployment planning.
• Monitor industry trends in Ethernet switching, AI networking, data center fabrics, optics, cabling, routing, SONiC, siliconplatforms, and emerging infrastructure architectures.
• Develop competitive positioning, pricing strategy, business cases, and go-to-market plans for switching products and related infrastructure solutions.
• Support sales enablement, customer presentations, partner training, and field engagement by clearly communicating product value, differentiation, and deployment use cases.
• Partner closely with engineering, architecture, silicon vendors, software teams, operations, sales, marketing, and executive leadership to deliver highly competitive networking platforms.
• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Ethernet switching platforms targeting AI, cloud, hyperscale, enterprise, and data center infrastructure markets.
• Define product requirements for next-generation Ethernet switches, routers, and related networking systems based on customer needs, market trends, silicon roadmaps, competitive analysis, and business objectives.
• Drive end-to-end product lifecycle management, from concept definition and business case development through architecture alignment, development, launch, customer adoption, and sustaining support.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, or a related field; MBA preferred.
• 17+ years of overall industry experience, including 10+ years in software, infrastructure, or systems-focused roles within the networking industry, with demonstrated technical depth and business impact.
• Deep expertise in Ethernet switching and routing platforms, including switch/router hardware architecture, switching and routing ASICs, packet-processing pipelines, and the silicon technologies that power modern data center and enterprise networks.
• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure and rack-level system design, including servers, networking, power, cooling, cabling, and the physical deployment considerations required to scale AI and cloud fabrics.
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