Principal Product Manager - Virtualization

Principal Product Manager - Virtualization

  

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:

   

The HPE Private Cloud team is focused on delivering a best-in-class Virtualization solution with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. This provides customers an enterprise grade virtualization solution to run their mission and business critical workloads. 

We’re seeking a proactive and results-driven Product Manager to join our dynamic Product Management team. This role calls for someone with a strong passion for creating exceptional products with a customer-centric mindset and deep technical understanding of virtualization and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Cross-functional collaboration and leadership will be essential to your success in this role.

The primary work location is as listed; however, remote work options will be considered.

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:

• Serve as a key member of the Private Cloud team focused on virtualization.

• Lead end-to-end product use cases for virtualization technologies (e.g., provisioning, monitoring, disaster recovery, automation, and orchestration).

• Engage with our customers and partners to develop an understanding of their business needs and market opportunities for our products.

• Develop and maintain product roadmaps aligned with company strategy and endorsed by stakeholders.

• Translate roadmap features into clear product requirements and user stories.

• Collaborate with product, sales, engineering, partners, and customers to ensure product-market fit.

• Guides key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle (e.g., planning, development, launch, management, exit).

• Drive alignment across product management, engineering, marketing, Supply Chain:  SKUs, inventory and sales functions.

• Partner with GTM teams to plan product launches and increase customer awareness and adoption.

• 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).

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:

• Proven experience building enterprise-grade products from concept to launch.

• Strong track record in defining product vision and go-to-market strategy.

• Comfortable leading design and technical discussions with cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrated ability to align and motivate engineering teams around shared goals.

• Deep knowledge in virtualization technologies, including various infrastructure platforms.

• Proficiency with agile tools like Jira and Confluence.

• Skilled at influencing stakeholders without direct authority.