Principal Product Manager, Unstructured Data and AI

Principal Product Manager, Unstructured Data and AI

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week 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:

   

Position Overview:

We are seeking a talented and experienced Product Manager to lead the development, launch and Go To Market Plan efforts of our next-generation unstructured data products and services. This position offers an opportunity to make a substantial impact on our product portfolio, focusing on creating solutions that support a wide variety of use cases for our enterprise customers.

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.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent.  Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Independently leads and drives the end-to-end strategy and operational product roadmap for one or more complex storage products, solutions 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.

• 7 + years of Product Management work experience in related field

• Technical understanding and knowledge of storage, distributed systems, storage and cloud

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Knowledge and Skills:

• Unique mastery and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including cloud, storage and networking technologies, distributed systems, and techniques.

• Preferred experience with AI, ML or Data Analytics

• Understands the storage ecosystem, modern workload demands and competitive offerings.

• 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 pro