Sr. Product Manager- Platforms

We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to own strategy roadmap and lifecycle for NetApps ONTAP systems platforms the unified data-management platforms at the core of our Enterprise Storage business.

This is a strategic cross-functional product role with meaningful ownership of roadmap competitive positioning new product introduction (NPI) and business outcomes. You will operate at the intersection of platform strategy ONTAP data services and go-to-market execution. You will partner with Engineering and Operations as well as systems and ONTAP engineering hardware and supply chain finance product marketing and field sales to keep NetApps systems competitive deliverable and aligned to customer needs.

The role carries both strategic and operational responsibility: shaping multi-generation platform roadmaps and positioning while driving active NPI programs managing generation transitions and maintaining lifecycle discipline across a broad high-revenue portfolio.

Scope: ONTAP systems platforms (controllers/platforms portfolio positioning generation transitions and related lifecycle). You will partner closely with Engineering Operations ONTAP software PMs Technical Marketing Engineering and Product Marketing. You own platform strategy and lifecycle outcomes; you partner on adjacent software marketing and enablement work rather than owning every related product line end-to-end.

Product strategy and roadmap
Own and continually refine the ONTAP systems platform strategy aligned to NetApps Enterprise Storage strategy and competitive requirements
Develop and maintain multi-generation platform roadmaps with Engineering and Operations with clear prioritization across performance and capacity tiers form factors and technology transitions
Define positioning and swim-lane guidance across the portfolio to reduce field ambiguity and improve deal velocity
Track business and transition metrics (adoption capacity growth and $/GB economics) and translate them into roadmap packaging and pricing actions

New product introduction and lifecycle management
Lead concurrent NPI programs across platforms and components driving requirements prioritization and cross-functional execution with Engineering and Operations through all lifecycle phases
Define clear well-structured product requirements for planning Engineering and Operations aligned to launch schedules and customer commitments
Own product lifecycle discipline across the portfolio including EOA/EOL strategy stocking and configuration optimization and sustaining strategy for shipping systems working closely with Operations and Engineering

Customer market and competitive requirements
Gather and synthesize requirements from enterprise customers the field and partners to inform platform priorities and design decisions
Own competitive positioning against key enterprise storage vendors translating gaps into requirements roadmap actions and field guidance
Convert customer and market needs into product requirements business cases and prescriptive positioning that connect platform investment to win rates and revenue impact

Go-to-market and field enablement
Partner with Product Marketing so platform advancements show up in messaging workload solution stories and field enablement
Develop platform packaging configuration guidance and field-facing documentation that support consistent scalable selling and deployment
Monitor adoption deployment and quoting friction signals; drive corrective actions that improve customer time-to-value coordinating with Engineering and Operations as needed

Cross-functional leadership
Serve as a primary point of accountability for the platform across Engineering Operations supply chain finance marketing and field sales
Partner day-to-day with Engineering and Operations leaders to align requirements schedules capacity quality and launch readiness
Communicate strategy roadmap and tradeoffs clearly to executive leadership and field organizations
Influence platform-level decisions that span multiple product lines and generations

A clear multi-generation platform roadmap that Engineering Operations and the field can execute against
Concurrent NPI programs delivered with high-quality requirements prioritized tradeoffs and on-time launch readiness through close partnership with Engineering and Operations
Portfolio swim-lanes and positioning that reduce field ambiguity and quoting friction
Lifecycle plans (including end of availability / end of life (EOA/EOL) and sustaining) that protect customer commitments and business economics
Competitive gaps translated into requirements roadmap actions and field guidance that improve win rate and adoption
Trusted partnership with senior leadership Engineering and Operations on roadmap transitions and platform-level tradeoffs

8 years of product management or technical product planning experience in enterprise infrastructure storage or related hardware/software domains
Strong understanding of enterprise storage systems and architectures including NAS and SAN protocols and modern data center infrastructure
Proven experience leading complex NPI programs through the full lifecycle: concept> requirements > development > GA > sustaining
Experience driving cross-functional execution with Engineering Operations supply chain finance and go-to-market teams
Strong communication and executive presence with the ability to represent complex platform tradeoffs clearly to senior stakeholders

Preferred
Familiarity with NetApp ONTAP or comparable unified storage data services and how platform hardware enables performance density and supportability
Experience with storage economics ($/GB) capacity/performance tiering and platform generation transitions
Direct competitive experience against major enterprise storage vendors
Experience positioning storage for AI virtualization mission-critical databases and other enterprise workloads
Experience creating field-facing packaging configuration guidance or enablement content
Demonstrated success partnering closely with Engineering and Operations on complex platform programs

Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.