NetApp Sr Product Manager- Storage Media 

United States, Oregon 

79797920

This role is focused on an evolving market bridging the gap between spinning media and high performance flash media and following technology trends.

• Manage pricing and work with supply chain and procurement and vendor partners to improve margins and/or reduce costs
• Document requirements in a Marketing Requirements Document (MRD) and Product Requirements Document (PRD) and drive those with engineering to execution
• Gather, validate, and evaluate product/market requirements through market and customer research, competitive and product research involving customer visits, advisory councils, industry events, analyst relationships, etc
• Own and drive the quarterly business/technical reviews with our media suppliers from a Product management perspective
• Provide insights to the business through analytics and market research in collaboration with Product and Technical Marketing and the Procurement teams
• Metrics and Reporting: Define key performance indicators and develop metrics to measure the business and customer trends. Provide regular reports to leadership and stakeholders on progress and achievements.
• Compliance and Standards: Stay up to date with relevant regulations, standards, and certifications, ensuring that our products comply with industry best practices and meet the necessary requirements.
• Innovation and Research: Continuously explore emerging technologies, industry trends, and market opportunities to identify innovative solutions and drive product enhancements.
• Coordinate with engineering and the field to facilitate BETA testing activities with end users/testers
• Translate system functionality into business relevant language
• Collaborate with R&D to translate market requirements into innovative new technology and with support to deliver solutions that have fast time-to-value and accelerate time-to-revenue
• Execute product vision, direction, and business plans, including product plans/roadmaps, product evolution and product lifecycle process
• Influence pricing and cross functional requirements (sales, channels, services and marketing) to bring offer(s) to market for on-premises and cloud deployments
• Lead technical responses to customer (internal and external) requests, including customer RFIs and RFQs and specification gap analyses.

• 5+ years in product management.
• Experience in hardware product management
• Deep expert knowledge in media technology around SAS, NL-SAS, Flash, NVMe, NAND, Solid State Drives (SSDs) Shelves, PCI, FIPS, etc for client, data center and enterprise storage markets
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary
• Problem-solving and organizational skills
• Ability to work well autonomously in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Sustainability Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive sustainability strategy for our technology products with our media vendors, ensuring alignment with our organization's overall sustainability objectives.
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Experience working with teams across geographies and business units.
• Excellent listening, oral, and written communication/presentation skills with strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions.
• BA/BS required, in Computer Science or related technical degree preferred
Preferred requirements:
• Knowledge with backup and disaster recovery architectures for SAN and NAS environments
• Experience with Tableau, SalesForce
• Experience in JIRA
• Knowledge around CPUs, GPUs and DPUs
• MBA

Travel requirements:
15% to 25% of travel will be required