Product Line Manager, Campus Switching

Product Line Manager, Campus Switching

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

HPE Aruba Networking is redefining the "Intelligent Edge". Aruba is creating new customer experiences by building intelligent spaces and digital workspaces - leading next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. We are focused on campus, branch, mobility and the IoT to transform businesses with the combined power of compute, context, control and secure connectivity. We help some of the largest and most exciting companies globally to modernize their networks to meet the demands of a digital future. 

 

Sounds like you? Then we have the right opportunity—we are looking for a Director, Product Line Management to join us! In this amazing role, you will design, plan, develop and manage a product or portfolio of products throughout the solution portfolio lifecycle:  from new product definition or enhancements to existing products; planning, design, forecasting, and production; to end of life.  If you have a track record of product line management success, want to be part of a business area that is growing—with great opportunities, and are ready for your next role, then please apply today.

 

How you’ll make your mark:

·       You will lead and drive the evolution and strategy for the Aruba Campus Switching software and hardware product roadmap, end to end strategy, and go to market positioning.

·       You will drive defining the value proposition, customer segmentation, and business case to bring innovative and disruptive products to the market.

·       You will evangelize new switching, security, software and cloud management solutions and use cases to customers and partners.

·       You will manage the synthesis of market requirements (MRD) into marketing/customer details through having intimate customer knowledge and business, financial and industry market acumen.

·       You will manage product lifecycle to business segment goals across all phases of the product and business segment lifecycles (e.g. planning, development, launch, management, exit).

·       You will collaborate product team and drive the evaluation and assessment of the key operational metrics (ie: revenue unit/margins, market share, quality performance, channel route to market, quarterly financials and on time to delivery).

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study. MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.

• 4+ years of work experience in related field.

• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry.

• Must be located in either San Jose, CA or Roseville, CA to be considered

• Prior experience with Product Management or Solutions Engineering strongly preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to develop product strategy and lead teams to achieve results.

• Demonstrated skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis.

• Demonstrated business acumen and knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection.

• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and ability to provide product specific technical training to the team.

• Technical and business understanding of networking Technologies, including Layer 2/3 switching, Routing (OSPF, BGP), SD-WAN, VxLAN and Secu