Senior Product Manager Job Details | NetApp, Inc.

NetApp is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive strategy, prioritization, and execution for core ONTAP Platform capabilities and support Google Distributed Cloud initiatives. The role translates customer and market requirements into scalable platform capabilities, coordinates across product and engineering teams, and helps evolve infrastructure for AI and data-intensive workloads.

Responsibilities:

• Drive strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for core ONTAP Platform capabilities based on customer requirements, technical use cases, market needs, and business priorities
• Lead hyperscaler execution for Google Distributed Cloud, working across ONTAP, Trident, StorageGRID, and related NetApp teams to align requirements and deliver integrated portfolio capabilities
• Partner closely with engineering and product leadership to define feature scope, negotiate tradeoffs, sequence investments, and deliver solutions that meet both GDC needs and broader NetApp customer requirements
• Translate customer, partner, and field input into clear problem statements, requirements, user stories, success metrics, and adoption plans
• Identify new use cases, adoption blockers, and footprint expansion opportunities for ONTAP and NetApp portfolio capabilities in enterprise, edge, regulated, and sovereign environments
• Use competitive, market, partner, and customer insights to influence roadmap decisions, investment priorities, and business outcomes
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve research, synthesis, requirements, analysis, and communication while maintaining clear product judgment and ownership
• Represent NetApp in customer engagements, partner meetings, executive briefings, and internal roadmap discussions

Requirements:

• 8+ years of product management, product marketing, business consulting, or business operations related relevant experience
• Experience defining and executing product strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and lifecycle plans for enterprise infrastructure products
• Strong inbound and outbound product management experience, including customer discovery, technical requirements, competitive analysis, positioning, launch readiness, and adoption
• Comfort leading customer-facing engagements, including executive briefings, workshops, and partner reviews
• Proven ability to partner with engineering and product leadership to prioritize roadmap work, negotiate tradeoffs, and deliver customer-ready features
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence executives and external partners
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data, technical tools, customer evidence, and structured analysis to prioritize roadmap investments, evaluate tradeoffs, and measure adoption
• Experience with partner-led product execution, business case development, commercial strategy, or adoption planning for B2B technology offerings
• Ability to influence partner roadmaps, internal investment decisions, and cross-team priorities through clear analysis and product judgment
• A bachelor's degree is required
• Experience using AI tools to improve product research, requirements analysis, communication, or workflow efficiency is a plus
• Experience working in the enterprise storage and data management industry; familiarity with NetApp and competitors
• Experience in networking, protocols, security, and edge-cloud infrastructure domains is a plus
• Understanding of AI data infrastructure, automation, and storage requirements of AI-driven workloads
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) preferred and/or relevant experience