Title:  Principal Product Manager (Cloud Business Entrepreneurship)

Job Summary

NetApp is looking for a Principal Product Manager to join the cloud storage and services product management team, to build products, solutions, and drive strategic initiatives across NetApp first-party and third party cloud storage portfolio that includes Azure NetApp Files, FSxN for NetApp ONTAP, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and NetApp Instaclustr. In this role you will follow a working backwards from the customer approach to build and launch products and services from scratch, partnering with engineering teams, sales (pre and post), customer success, professional services teams, and other stakeholders to deliver products and services that delights customers. 

To succeed you must be a self-starter and have an entrepreneurial mindset and have a track record of building new cloud businesses from ground up. You must ideate new concepts that can be productized to accelerate revenue growth for the cloud storage business. You must demonstrate a high level of ownership and insist on the highest standards of product quality, operational excellence, and tech support. You will cut through the noise, relentlessly simplify, and deliver outstanding results. Prior experience working on enterprise storage especially cloud storage is preferred

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the development of new offerings from ideation to launch working with cross-functional teams that include engineering, customer success, professional services, sales, and marketing.
• Drive initiatives to bring new workloads to NetApp first-party cloud storage portfolio and help accelerate the migration such workloads from on-premises and other cloud storage services.

Job Requirements

• Must be hands-on and deeply technical with the ability to confidently demonstrate products to various stakeholders and test products to provide feedback to engineering
• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
• Must be able to gather, organize, crunch, and analyze customer and partner data to determine product feature uptake/adoption/non-adoption reasons.
• Must have the ability to deal with ambiguity and make abstract ideas concrete.
• Must be an inspirational product leader -- must be able to motivate, inspire, and excite teams around a product vision.

Qualifications

• Building SaaS products or fully managed services from scratch.
• A thorough understanding of public cloud (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) storage services and data storage/ data management fundamentals.
• Deep understanding of how cloud marketplaces work and how to monetize products and services using those
• Practitioner of working backwards framework for building a new service/feature/functionality.
• Knowledgeable about modern compute paradigms including Kubernetes, containers, and micro VMs.

Minimum qualifications

• 10 - 12+ years of industry experience in software product management (preferably in infrastructure/systems software products).
• 4-year BA/BS mandatory, in computer science, data science, electrical engineering, or equivalent technical degree.
• An MBA degree is preferred but not mandatory.