Title:  Director of Product Management - Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Job Summary

This role reports to the Senior Director of Inbound Product Management and will lead a medium size geographically dispersed team of product managers.   The team will have responsibilities to drive the strategy and roadmap for modernizing ONTAP management tools.  This includes the strategy to simplify ONTAP, integration with NetApp Cloud Products to address growing hybrid multi cloud use cases and finally using analytics for better data management and automation.   In the Automation space, NetApp has a heritage of offering our customers the flexibility to automate or adopt self-healing tools to enable the simple and most complex environments. Driving this value and simplicity is top of mind to all our customers.

Job Requirements

Roadmap development
•    Build product vision to simplify data management for core and hybrid multi cloud customers
•    Create product strategies and work with both peers and engineering teams to ensure the positive impact across the portfolio.
•    Define product value and ROI to NetApp and customers.  Work thru the lifecycle of products as they reach across on prem and hybrid cloud deployments.
•    Anticipate and plan for technology changes, customer base shifts and opportunities to drive new customers and growth to NetApp.
•    Collaborate with other infrastructure product partners to build product integration with differentiated value propositions.

Leadership
•    This role will guide and mentor a team of Product Managers.  As a leader, there is a strong emphasis on growing the skills and developing the team.  Teaching and mentoring the art of Product Management is a key deliverable and will be demonstrated through direct engagement with the team and stake holders.  
•    While engaging with the Directors, Technical Directors and VPs of engineering, this role will have influence and responsibility that requires a leadership mindset to engage and promote the value and impact of these efforts.

 Capabilities:
•    Ability and aptitude to develop deep understanding of NetApp’s product portfolio, market segments, value propositions, routes to market, business models and unit economics
•    Excellent communication, organization, leadership, and execution skills
•    Ability to consolidate information from a variety of resources, including (but not limited to) usage data, customer feedback, and market analysis, to inform and define product strategy and roadmaps
•    Display flexibility and the ability to adjust priorities quickly based on new information
•    Builds strong connections and work cohesively with internal and external stakeholders

Education
•    > 7 years of prior experience of working in Enterprise Storage, IT or Manageability products Software & infrastructure space in the following roles: Product planning, Technical Marketing, Product Management, Solutions Engineering,
•    > 5 years of prior experience and a proven track record of leading and scaling a high performing teams
•    Significant prior experience in roles which required Executive visibility and interaction and the need to influence cross-functional stakeholders
•    Proven track record of establishing business growth objectives, strategies and delivering key results.
•    Strong analytical orientation, proven ability to build data models and marshal quantitative analysis to drive strategic decisions
•    Self-motivated, process driven, biased toward action, capable of defining objectives and delivering workstreams from start to finish with limited oversight
 

Education