Director, Product Mgmt (Open Source Experience)
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Los Angeles, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Job Summary
The Director of Product Management for AI & Open Source Data Platforms will lead the vision strategy and execution of products that sit at the intersection of enterprise AI cloud scale data infrastructure and open source ecosystems. This role is responsible for building differentiated trustworthy and scalable platforms that enable customers to manage govern and operationalize data for modern analytics and AI workloads across hybrid and multi cloud environments.
As a Director you will manage and develop a team of product managers while partnering closely with engineering open source program offices research go to market and strategic partners. You will balance long term platform strategy with near term business impact ensuring that investments in open source technologies and AI capabilities translate into customer value ecosystem adoption and revenue growth.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Vision
- Define and own the product strategy and multi year roadmap for AI enabled data platforms with a strong emphasis on open source data infrastructure (e.g. distributed storage data orchestration streaming search and metadata systems).
- Identify and articulate how NetApp grade enterprise capabilitiessecurity governance performance reliabilitydifferentiate open source based solutions in production AI and analytics environments.
- Align product strategy with company objectives market trends and customer transformation initiatives across data modernization and AI adoption.
AI & Platform Leadership
- Drive the integration of generative AI and agentic capabilities into data infrastructure products enabling use cases such as intelligent data management autonomous operations and AI assisted user experiences.
- Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to shape platform capabilities including:
- Data ingestion and pipelines for AI workloads
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures
- Model orchestration evaluation and observability
- Policy driven governance data lineage and compliance
- Ensure products are designed for operational excellence at enterprise scale balancing innovation speed with robustness and trust.
Open Source & Ecosystem Engagement
Define NetApps open source data infrastructure product strategy including decisions around build vs. partner vs. community collaboration.
- Work closely with open source communities foundations and partners to influence roadmaps while maintaining healthy upstream engagement.
- Establish clear product and business models around open source software including subscriptions managed services and enterprise extensions.
Execution & Go to Market
- Lead end to end product execution across multiple teams ensuring clarity on priorities milestones and measurable outcomes.
- Partner with sales marketing and alliances to define positioning packaging pricing and launch strategies for AI and data platform offerings.
- Engage directly with strategic customers field teams and partners to validate direction gather feedback and accelerate adoption.
People Leadership & Product Excellence
- Build manage and mentor a high performing team of product managers across platform AI and open source domains.
- Set a high bar for product craftsmanship including customer discovery roadmap rigor outcome based metrics and clear product narratives.
- Foster a culture of collaboration curiosity and accountability within the product organization.
Job Requirements
- 1218 years of experience in product management with 5 years in people leadership roles preferably in enterprise software cloud platforms or data infrastructure.
- Highly Preferred: Previous experience productizing Kafka Cassandra OpenSearch or ClickHouse.
- Strong track record of delivering platform scale products used by developers data engineers and enterprise customers.
- Hands on experience with AI enabled products including familiarity with:
- Generative AI and LLM based systems
- Agentic workflows and autonomous services
- AI evaluation governance and lifecycle management
- Deep understanding of open source data technologies and ecosystems and experience commercializing or productizing open source software.
- Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering GTM executives and external partners.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business and customer value.
Education
- Bachelors degree in engineering Computer Science Data Science or Information Systems.
- MBA or masters degree strongly preferred.
Compensation:
The target salary range for this position is $228000 - $340000. The salary offered will be determined by the candidates location qualifications experience and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards reflecting a variety of factors and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance Life Insurance Retirement or Pension Plans Paid Time Off various Leave options Performance-Based Incentives employee stock purchase plan and/or restricted stocks (RSUs) with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws regulations and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.
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