Staff Hyperscale Product Manager 2248
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
8 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
As a Staff Product Manager on the SSD marketing team you will work cross-functionally with sales engineering operations and management to drive product awareness and design wins for KIOXIA SSD products. You will have the opportunity to define new products and product strategies and will be responsible for setting the products strategic vision in addition to optimizing the products market position and financial returns consistent with corporate key initiatives. You will understand customer applications and ecosystems and have insight into their challenges and how to solve them.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the go-to product leader for Data center/hyperscaler-focused SSD solutions driving product strategy roadmap definition and end-to-end business plans for KIOXIAs next-generation SSD portfolio
- Own and drive deep engagement with hyperscale customers (cloud AI and large-scale data center operators) to translate evolving infrastructure needs into differentiated product requirements
- Lead the development of market requirements documents (MRDs) and product requirement documents (PRDs) by synthesizing customer inputs workload trends (AI/ML analytics cloud storage) and competitive intelligence
- Align cross-functional execution across marketing sales engineering operations and support to ensure successful product development qualification and deployment at scale
- Define and execute go-to-market strategies tailored for hyperscale customers including pricing positioning qualification strategy and volume ramp plans
- Drive design wins and qualifications with hyperscalers including:
- Ownership of AVL processes interop validation and large-scale deployment readiness
- Close collaboration with ecosystem partners (CPU GPU platform and software vendors)
- Analyze market trends competitive positioning and TCO dynamics to define winning product strategies in performance power endurance and cost
- Act as the bridge between technical and commercial domains ensuring alignment between customer requirements engineering trade-offs and business outcomes
- Oversee pre-sales and customer engagement activities including RFQs RFIs technical deep-dives and spec gap analysis
- Develop customer-facing and internal product collateral including solution briefs competitive positioning and executive presentations
- Own the full product lifecycle from concept and definition through development launch ramp and end-of-life
- Serve as a subject matter expert and evangelist representing KIOXIA at customer engagements industry forums (e.g. OCP NVMe) and with analysts and media
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Business or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
- 7 years of product management experience in SSDs storage semiconductors or related hardware technologies
- Prior experience working with or supporting hyperscalers cloud providers or large-scale data center customers strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of:
- SSD architecture NAND flash and controller/SoC design
- NVMe ecosystem and next-generation interfaces (PCIe Gen4/5/6 and beyond)
- Enterprise and hyperscale storage systems (block file object storage)
- Familiarity with:
- AI/ML infrastructure and data pipelines (GPU-based systems KV cache storage tiering)
- Software-defined storage virtualization and cloud-native environments (Linux Kubernetes etc.)
- Proven ability to translate complex technical market and financial data into clear product strategies and differentiated features
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence both internal stakeholders and external customers
- Demonstrated success in managing multiple complex programs prioritizing under uncertainty and driving decisions with incomplete data
- Excellent cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills across global teams
- Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels from long-term roadmap planning to tactical issue resolution
- Role may require cross-segment flexibility in the future with the opportunity to rotate between Client (OEM/Notebook) Hyperscale/Data Center or Enterprise (Large OEMs) SSD Product Management to build broad domain expertise and drive unified product strategy
- Willingness to travel (25%) for customer engagements design reviews and industry events
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with hyperscale qualification cycles deployment models and fleet-level optimization (performance power endurance TCO)
- Exposure to industry standards and consortia (e.g. NVMe OCP SNIA)
- Background in ecosystem collaboration (CPU/GPU vendors platform providers storage software vendors)
- Experience in AI-driven storage use cases and next-generation data center architectures
Additional Information :
Req#2248; #LI-CB1;
The expected salary for this position is $144330.00 - $240550.00.
At KIOXIA we value the following:
- Investment in you
- Offering opportunities for career growth and personal development training
- Open-minded management
- Empowering employees by listening and responding to ideas issues and approaches
- Flexible work-life balance
- Offering a generous PTO allotment holiday shutdown and flexible work options
- Diversity of cultures perspectives backgrounds and experiences of all our team members
- Through our diversity equity and inclusion initiatives our focus is to strengthen our company culture to create more inclusion and belonging for all
- Benefits for our team members
- Excellent medical and non-medical benefits 401(k) matching pet insurance
KIOXIA America Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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No Relocation Assistance Provided. KIOXIA America, Inc. is the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, a leading worldwide supplier of flash memory and solid state drives (SSDs). From the invention of flash memory to today’s breakthrough BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory technology, KI ... View more
