Principal Product Manager

NetApp
San Jose, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

This is a highly visible role at the intersection of product, engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, and cloud-partner teams. The successful candidate will help translate a differentiated cloud storage service into clear customer value, repeatable workload solutions, strong field readiness, and measurable business growth.

What You Will Do

Define and execute the go-to-market strategy for the new cloud storage offering, identify priority customer segments, workloads, use cases, and buying motions, develop a clear customer-value narrative, and establish launch priorities, adoption milestones, success metrics, and mechanisms for tracking business performance.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate thinks like a business owner, moves comfortably between product strategy, customer detail, and field execution, creates clarity in complex cross-functional environments, builds trust across company and partner boundaries, and uses data and customer evidence to drive decisions.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, go-to-market, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, or related roles
  • Demonstrated experience launching and scaling enterprise technology products or cloud services
  • Strong understanding of public-cloud platforms, cloud consumption models, enterprise infrastructure, and partner-led go-to-market motions
  • Experience working with sales, engineering, product marketing, solution architecture, finance, and customer-success organizations
  • Proven ability to translate complex technical capabilities into compelling customer value and repeatable sales motions
  • Experience engaging with enterprise customers, senior executives, sellers, and technical decision-makers
  • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to define business metrics, evaluate market opportunities, and make evidence-based prioritization decisions
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence across organizational boundaries
  • Ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving, pre-launch environment

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Retirement or Pension Plans
  • Paid Time Off
  • Leave options
  • Performance-Based Incentives
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Restricted stocks (RSU’s)
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