Vice President, Product Management — Data Center Networking

Job Description

HPE Networking is seeking a senior product executive to define and lead the product strategy for data center networking, with an emphasis on open networking, SONiC, AI-ready infrastructure, automation, and cloud-native customer requirements. This leader will translate market and customer needs into a differentiated portfolio strategy and executable roadmap, bringing together product, engineering, architecture, sales, go-to-market, and ecosystem teams. The successful candidate will combine deep data center networking expertise with strong product judgment, commercial orientation, and the ability to influence across a complex global organization.

• Set the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for HPE’s data center networking portfolio, including open networking and SONiC-based capabilities.
• Identify priority customer segments, use cases, and market opportunities across enterprise, cloud-native, service provider, and AI-ready data center environments.
• Translate customer, competitive, and ecosystem insights into clear product requirements, investment priorities, and portfolio decisions.
• Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to balance innovation, quality, time to market, and commercial outcomes.
• Drive alignment across product, sales, go-to-market, finance, services, and partner organizations to deliver successful launches and sustained adoption.
• Build and lead a senior product management team, establishing clear operating mechanisms, accountability, and talent development.
• Engage strategic customers and ecosystem partners to validate requirements, accelerate adoption, and strengthen HPE’s position in open, automated data center networking.
• Define business objectives and success measures, monitor performance, and adjust strategy based on market and customer signals.
• Represent the portfolio with executive stakeholders and in appropriate external industry and customer forums.

• 15+ years of product management and business leadership experience in data center networking, switching, network operating systems, infrastructure software, or a closely related technology field.
• Demonstrated success defining portfolio strategy and delivering products from concept through launch, adoption, and growth.
• Strong understanding of open networking, SONiC or comparable network operating systems, data center fabrics, automation, and relevant hardware and software ecosystems.
• Experience serving enterprise, cloud, service provider, or AI infrastructure customers and converting complex technical needs into differentiated offerings.
• Proven ability to lead through influence across engineering, architecture, sales, go-to-market, finance, and partner organizations.
• Strong executive communication, customer engagement, and decision-making skills, including the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Experience building and developing high‑performing product teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.

• Strategic and market-oriented, with the ability to connect technology choices to customer outcomes and business value.
• Executive communication, able to distill complex information for different audiences, especially executives; strong thought leadership; collaborative and influential style; succinct and clear in both written and verbal communication.
• Collaborative and decisive, able to create alignment while making disciplined portfolio tradeoffs.
• Credible with senior technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
• Customer‑focused, curious, and committed to building products that are differentiated, reliable, and easy to adopt.

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