Title:  Principal Product Manager, Cloud Storage Performance

Job Summary

NetApp is seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Principal Product Manager to lead and drive workload specific storage performance initiatives within our cloud storage portfolio. This role is pivotal in shaping the future of NetApp's cloud storage solutions by developing innovative performance proof points, reference architectures, and performance artifacts tailored to customer workloads.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including performance engineering, sales (pre and post), and customer success, to validate workload performance and provide critical insights to engineering and product teams. You will leverage your entrepreneurial mindset and high level of ownership to ideate and productize new cloud storage performance initiatives that accelerate revenue growth and qualify new workloads, such as AI applications, onto NetApp cloud storage.

Your ability to cut through complexity, simplify processes, and deliver exceptional results will be key to your success in this role. Prior experience in enterprise storage, especially cloud storage, is highly preferred. Join us at NetApp and be a part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to pushing the limits of technology and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop Proof Points and Reference Architectures: Craft innovative performance proof points and reference architectures tailored to specific customer workloads, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with teams such as performance engineering, sales, and customer success to validate workload performance and gather critical insights for continuous improvement.
• Communicate Effectively: Present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including stakeholders and engineering teams.

Job Requirements

• 10 - 12+ years of industry experience in enterprise/cloud storage product management.
• Must be super comfortable with enterprise storage performance concepts.
• 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 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess deep enterprise and cloud storage domain knowledge including file, block, and object formats.
• A thorough understanding of public cloud (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) storage services and data storage/ data management fundamentals.
• Practitioner of working backwards framework for building a new service/feature/functionality.
• Knowledgeable about modern compute paradigms including Kubernetes, containers, and micro VMs.

Education

•    4-year BA/BS mandatory, in computer science, data science, electrical engineering, or equivalent technical degree. 
•    An MBA degree is preferred but not mandatory.

Travel requirements:
0% to 10% of travel will be required