Principal Product Manager – VME (Hardening & Strategic Customer Engagement)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. The Principal Product Manager for VME is responsible for driving platform hardening and enhancing customer engagement while focusing on improving the reliability, security, and operational readiness of the VME platform.

Responsibilities:

• Independently leads and drives the end-to-end strategy and operational product roadmap for one or more complex products or a product portfolio
• Builds and delivers the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case to bring innovative and disruptive products to market for a product portfolio with respect to the whole company product portfolio (i.e. Product configuration mix, Revenue/Margins, financials, market share)
• Synthesizes market requirements (MRD) into marketing/customer details through having intimate customer knowledge and business, financial and industry market acumen
• Guides key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle (e.g., planning, development, launch, management, exit)
• Creates and drives goal alignment and collaborates across one or more products' value chain partners to optimize margins and enable success of products per plans across the product lifecycle. (ie. Engineering: product development, Supply Chain: SKUs, inventory and Marketing: marketing and pricing strategies and Go to Market Plan)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study
• 10+ years of work experience in related field
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry
• Extensive team skills and ability to cross functionally drive/influence work through others, ability to mentor and lead teams to achieve results for complex, ambiguous projects
• Extensive skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis
• Extensive business acumen and knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and ability to provide product specific technical training to the team
• MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred
• Cross Domain Knowledge
• Customer Engagement
• Design Thinking
• Development Fundamentals
• DevOps
• Go-to-Market Expertise
• Partner Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Security-First Mindset
• Strategic Pricing
• Strategy Creation
• User Experience (UX)
• Value Creation
• Vendor Management