Principal Product Manager - Virtualization Platforms/KVM

Principal Product Manager - Virtualization Platforms/KVM

  

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

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:

   

Job Family Definition:

Designs, plans, develops and manages 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.

The Product Manager for Virtualization Platforms/KVM is responsible for defining and driving the strategy, roadmap, and execution of products built on the Linux KVM hypervisor virtualization stack.

This role requires deep technical understanding of virtualization technologies, including hypervisors, virtual machines, networking, storage, and performance optimization. The Product Manager works closely with engineering, customers, partners, and sales teams to identify market needs, prioritize features, and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance virtualization solutions.

• Key responsibilities include gathering and translating customer requirements, defining product requirements and specifications
• Driving product launches, and ensuring alignment with cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure strategies.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise in KVM, QEMU, libvirt, and related ecosystem components with strategic thinking and cross-functional leadership to deliver competitive and differentiated virtualization products.

Responsibilities:

• Independently leads and drives the end to end strategy and operational product roadmap for one or more complex products or a product portfolio.
• Builds and delivers the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case to bring innovative and disruptive products to market for a product portfolio with respect to the whole company product portfolio (i.e. Product configuration mix, Revenue/Margins, financials, market share).
• Synthesizes market requirements (MRD) into marketing/customer details through having intimate customer knowledge and business, financial and industry market acumen.
• Guides key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle (e.g., planning, development, launch, management, exit).
• Creates and drives goal alignment and collaborates across one or more products' value chain partners to optimize margins and enable success of products per plans across the product lifecycle. (ie. Engineering: product development, Supply Chain:  SKUs, inventory and Marketing:   marketing and pricing strategies and Go To Market Plan).

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.
• 10+ years of work experience in related field
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry

Knowledge and Skills:

• Extensive team skills and ability to cross functionally drive/influence work through others, ability to mentor and lead teams to achieve results for complex, ambiguous projects.
• Extensive skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis
• Extensive 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.

Additional Skills:

Cross Domain Knowledge, Customer Engagement, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Go-to-Market Expertise, Partner Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Security-First Mindset, Strategic Pricing, Strategy Creation, User Experience (UX), Value Creation, Vendor Management

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our