Senior Product Manager-Platforms
$196.3k - $292.6k+ Potential commission
Senior, Expert
Bachelor's
Morrisville, NC, USA+4 moreMore locations: San Jose, CA, USA | Wichita, KS, USA | Boulder, CO, USA | Cranberry Township, PA, USA
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ProductTechnical Product Management
About the job
Requirements
- At least 8 years of product management or technical product planning experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, or related hardware/software domains.
- Strong understanding of enterprise storage systems and architectures, including NAS and SAN protocols and modern data center infrastructure.
- Proven experience leading complex new product introduction programs through the full lifecycle, from concept and requirements through development, general availability, and sustaining.
- Experience driving cross-functional execution with Engineering, Operations, supply chain, finance, and go-to-market teams.
- Strong communication and executive presence, with the ability to represent complex platform tradeoffs clearly to senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Own and continually refine the ONTAP systems platform strategy, aligned to NetApp's Enterprise Storage strategy and competitive requirements.
- Develop and maintain multi-generation platform roadmaps with Engineering and Operations, prioritizing across performance and capacity tiers, form factors, and technology transitions.
- Define positioning and swim-lane guidance across the portfolio to reduce field ambiguity and improve deal velocity.
- Track business and transition metrics, including adoption, capacity growth, and dollars-per-gigabyte economics, and translate them into roadmap, packaging, and pricing actions.
- Lead concurrent new product introduction programs across platforms and components, driving requirements, prioritization, and cross-functional execution with Engineering and Operations through all lifecycle phases.
- Define clear, well-structured product requirements for planning, Engineering, and Operations, aligned to launch schedules and customer commitments.
- Own product lifecycle discipline across the portfolio, including end-of-availability and end-of-life strategy, stocking and configuration optimization, and sustaining strategy for shipping systems, working closely with Operations and Engineering.
- Gather and synthesize requirements from enterprise customers, the field, and partners to inform platform priorities and design decisions.
- Own competitive positioning against key enterprise storage vendors, translating gaps into requirements, roadmap actions, and field guidance.
- Convert customer and market needs into product requirements, business cases, and prescriptive positioning that connect platform investment to win rates and revenue impact.
- Partner with Product Marketing so platform advancements are reflected in messaging, workload solution stories, and field enablement.
- Develop platform packaging, configuration guidance, and field-facing documentation that support consistent, scalable selling and deployment.
- Monitor adoption, deployment, and quoting-friction signals and drive corrective actions to improve customer time-to-value, coordinating with Engineering and Operations as needed.
- Serve as a primary point of accountability for the platform across Engineering, Operations, supply chain, finance, marketing, and field sales.
- Partner day-to-day with Engineering and Operations leaders to align requirements, schedules, capacity, quality, and launch readiness.
- Communicate strategy, roadmap, and tradeoffs clearly to executive leadership and field organizations.
- Influence platform-level decisions spanning multiple product lines and generations.
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with NetApp ONTAP or comparable unified storage data services, and how platform hardware enables performance, density, and supportability.
- Experience with storage economics, capacity and performance tiering, and platform generation transitions.
- Direct competitive experience against major enterprise storage vendors.
- Experience positioning storage for AI, virtualization, mission-critical databases, and other enterprise workloads.
- Experience creating field-facing packaging, configuration guidance, or enablement content.
- Demonstrated success partnering closely with Engineering and Operations on complex platform programs.
About the company
Spot.io, part of NetApp, helps businesses manage cloud costs and infrastructure on AWS. It uses software that analyzes cloud usage and automates management to lower compute expenses, especially through AWS EC2 spot instances, which offer spare capacity at reduced prices. The product provides deep visibility into cloud spending, an AWS cost optimization calculator for estimating potential savings, and a free action plan tailored to each customer. Revenue comes from selling software licenses and consulting services. Target customers include enterprises using containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, KOPS, Docker Swarm, and OpenShift. The company aims to reduce cloud compute costs for customers while simplifying cloud operations and improving efficiency.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$53.2M
Headquarters
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Founded
2015
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What believers are saying
- Q4 FY2026 revenue hit $1.95 billion, up 12% year over year.
- NetApp raised FY2027 revenue guidance to $7.325-$7.575 billion after strong Q1 demand.
- Management reported more than 1,100 AI-specific deals in FY2026, with 350 more last quarter.
What critics are saying
- Flexera closed Spot's acquisition on March 3, 2025, shrinking NetApp's CloudOps scope.
- NetApp disclosed a May 20, 2026 WARN notice cutting 77 San Jose jobs.
- Pure Storage, Dell, and HPE are attacking AI storage wins aggressively through 2026.
What makes NetApp unique
- NetApp's ONTAP and all-flash arrays anchor its hybrid-cloud storage platform.
- FY2026 public cloud revenue reached $182 million, extending Cloud Volumes differentiation.
- AI-focused EF50 and EF80 target high-throughput workloads that protect GPU utilization.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Phone/Internet Stipend
- Gym Membership
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Work Hours