Sr. Director, Product Management

Job Summary

Job Requirements

Product Strategy & Execution:

• Define and drive product strategy for NetApps manageability platform including AI-powered autonomous operations hybrid multi-cloud control plane and SaaS infrastructure.
• Lead a product management team in Bangalore building strong talent and establishing best practices.
• Manage the complete product lifecycle for AI/ML platform services hybrid multi-cloud capabilities SaaS/SRE infrastructure and trial/demo environments.
• Develop roadmaps that balance customer requirements competitive dynamics and business priorities.

Platform Development:

• Build platform capabilities that enable AI-powered agents to work seamlessly across NetApps portfolio.
• Deliver a hybrid multi-cloud control plane that manages NetApp infrastructure across on-premises AWS Azure and Google Cloud environments.
• Ensure platform services (IAM security observability) are scalable reliable and easy to integrate.

Customer & Market Engagement:

• Understand customer workflows pain points and requirements through research advisory boards and direct engagement.
• Translate customer insights into differentiated product experiences.
• Work with sales teams to enable customer conversations and represent NetApps vision at industry events.

Team & Organization:

• Build and scale the product management organization in Bangalore.
• Establish effective collaboration across distributed global teams.
• Partner with engineering leadership to maintain strong product-engineering alignment.
• Set standards for product management practices and execution.

Required Qualifications:

• 15 years of product management experience in enterprise software SaaS or infrastructure products.
• 7 years leading product management teams including experience building and scaling teams.
• Proven track record of shipping successful enterprise products that customers love.
• Deep understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures SaaS platforms and site reliability engineering principles.
• Experience with AI/ML technologies and agentic/autonomous systems.
• Strong technical acumen with ability to engage deeply with engineering teams on architecture and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment in complex matrixed organizations.
• Exceptional communication skills with ability to influence at all levels including executive leadership.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in storage data management or infrastructure management domains.
• Background in building platform services or developer platforms.
• Experience managing services across multiple cloud providers.
• Experience with observability monitoring and AIOps technologies.
• Track record of successful product launches in competitive markets.
• Experience managing global distributed product teams.
• Understanding of enterprise sales processes and agile development methodologies.