Sr. Product Manager- Platforms
Boulder, Colorado, United States; San Jose, California, United States; Morrisville, North Carolina, United States; Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, United States; Wichita, Kansas, United States
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At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. We have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards its maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.
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Senior Product Manager
We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to own strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for NetApp's ONTAP systems platforms, the unified data-management platforms at the core of our Enterprise Storage business.
This is a strategic, cross-functional product role with meaningful ownership of roadmap, competitive positioning, new product introduction (NPI), and business outcomes. You will operate at the intersection of platform strategy, ONTAP data services, and go-to-market execution. You will partner with Engineering and Operations, as well as systems and ONTAP engineering, hardware and supply chain, finance, product marketing, and field sales, to keep NetApp's systems competitive, deliverable, and aligned to customer needs.
The role carries both strategic and operational responsibility: shaping multi-generation platform roadmaps and positioning while driving active NPI programs, managing generation transitions, and maintaining lifecycle discipline across a broad, high-revenue portfolio.
Scope: ONTAP systems platforms (controllers/platforms, portfolio positioning, generation transitions, and related lifecycle). You will partner closely with Engineering, Operations, ONTAP software PMs, Technical Marketing Engineering, and Product Marketing. You own platform strategy and lifecycle outcomes; you partner on adjacent software, marketing, and enablement work rather than owning every related product line end-to-end.
Job Responsibilities
Product strategy and roadmap
• Own and continually refine the ONTAP systems platform strategy, aligned to NetApp's Enterprise Storage strategy and competitive requirements
• Develop and maintain multi-generation platform roadmaps with Engineering and Operations, with clear prioritization across performance and capacity tiers, form factors, and technology transitions
• Define positioning and swim-lane guidance across the portfolio to reduce field ambiguity and improve deal velocity
• Track business and transition metrics (adoption, capacity growth, and $/GB economics) and translate them into roadmap, packaging, and pricing actions
New product introduction and lifecycle management
• Lead concurrent NPI programs across platforms and components, driving requirements, prioritization, and cross-functional execution with Engineering and Operations through all lifecycle phases
• Define clear, well-structured product requirements for planning, Engineering, and Operations, aligned to launch schedules and customer commitments
• Own product lifecycle discipline across the portfolio, including EOA/EOL strategy, stocking and configuration optimization, and sustaining strategy for shipping systems, working closely with Operations and Engineering
Customer, market, and competitive requirements
• Gather and synthesize requirements from enterprise customers, the field, and partners to inform platform priorities and design decisions
• Own competitive positioning against key enterprise storage vendors, translating gaps into requirements, roadmap actions, and field guidance
• Convert customer and market needs into product requirements, business cases, and prescriptive positioning that connect platform investment to win rates and revenue impact
Go-to-market and field enablement
• Partner with Product Marketing so platform advancements show up in messaging, workload solution stories, and field enablement
• Develop platform packaging, configuration guidance, and field-facing documentation that support consistent, scalable selling and deployment
• Monitor adoption, deployment, and quoting friction signals; drive corrective actions that improve customer time-to-value, coordinating with Engineering and Operations as needed
Cross-functional leadership
• Serve as a primary point of accountability for the platform across Engineering, Operations, supply chain, finance, marketing, and field sales
• Partner day-to-day with Engineering and Operations leaders to align requirements, schedules, capacity, quality, and launch readiness
• Communicate strategy, roadmap, and tradeoffs clearly to executive leadership and field organizations
• Influence platform-level decisions that span multiple product lines and generations
• A clear, multi-generation platform roadmap that Engineering, Operations, and the field can execute against
• Concurrent NPI programs delivered with high-quality requirements, prioritized tradeoffs, and on-time launch readiness through close partnership with Engineering and Operations
• Portfolio swim-lanes and positioning that reduce field ambiguity and quoting friction
• Lifecycle plans (including end of availability / end of life (EOA/EOL) and sustaining) that protect customer commitments and business economics
• Competitive gaps translated into requirements, roadmap actions, and field guidance that improve win rate and adoption
• Trusted partnership with senior leadership, Engineering, and Operations on roadmap, transitions, and platform-level tradeoffs
Job Requirements
• 8+ years of product management or technical product planning experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, or related hardware/software domains
• Strong understanding of enterprise storage systems and architectures, including NAS and SAN protocols and modern data center infrastructure
• Proven experience leading complex NPI programs through the full lifecycle: concept> requirements > development > GA > sustaining
• Experience driving cross-functional execution with Engineering, Operations, supply chain, finance, and go-to-market teams
• Strong communication and executive presence, with the ability to represent complex platform tradeoffs clearly to senior stakeholders
Preferred
• Familiarity with NetApp ONTAP or comparable unified storage data services, and how platform hardware enables performance, density, and supportability
• Experience with storage economics ($/GB), capacity/performance tiering, and platform generation transitions
• Direct competitive experience against major enterprise storage vendors
• Experience positioning storage for AI, virtualization, mission-critical databases, and other enterprise workloads
• Experience creating field-facing packaging, configuration guidance, or enablement content
• Demonstrated success partnering closely with Engineering and Operations on complex platform programs
Education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.
At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
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Why You'll Thrive at NetApp
At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.
NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.
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Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.
Benefits
Volunteer time off
40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.
Well-being
Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.
Time away
Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.
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To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team reviews apcplications submitted through our company website only. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.
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For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use AI-powered tools to assist with tasks such as identifying relevant candidates, matching skills and experience to role requirements, and conducting initial screenings. These tools support - rather than replace - human decision-making. To learn more, please see our AI Transparency Statement. If you would prefer not to engage with an AI-assisted process, you can request an alternative by contacting careers@netapp.com. Choosing an alternative process will not impact your candidacy in any way.