Principal Product Manager – VME (Services & 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 Services is responsible for defining and scaling service offerings, engaging with strategic customers, and driving product strategy to ensure customer needs are met in the product roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Independently leads and drives the end-to-end product strategy and operational product roadmap for many complex products or product portfolios
• Create and articulates the value proposition, target customer segments and business cases, to bring innovative and disruptive products to market for multiple product portfolios 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
• Actively engages across verticals or customer segment engagements
• Drive innovative and futuristic approaches based on external market insights and feedback
• Builds products from ideation to launch
• Recommends and influences key stakeholders with data driven analysis on strategic priorities throughout all phases of the product lifecycle, encompassing planning, development, launch, management, and exit strategies
• 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. (i.e. Engineering: product development; Supply Chain: SKUs, inventory; and Marketing: marketing and pricing strategies and Go to Market Plan and drives adoption)
• Acts as a leader, providing guidance and mentoring to less-experienced team members and influences them to build effective requirements and roadmaps

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, or related field of study; MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred
• 10+ years of work experience in related field
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry
• Translation of technical requirements/functions into business value for the customer
• 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
• Works cross-functionally to align with Go to Market, operations, and other functions
• 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
• Communicates effectively and can tailor message to various audiences
• Ability to engage with analysts and industry experts
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and can provide product specific technical training to the team
• 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