{"id":93947,"url":"https://alion.io/job/kioxia-staff-hyperscale-product-manager-2248","title":"Staff Hyperscale Product Manager - 2248","company":{"id":7417,"name":"Kioxia","domain":"kioxia.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/kioxia","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Jose, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":144330,"max":240550,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":240550},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"KV Cache","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-04T15:16:45Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T07:03:06Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":92,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":92},"description":"KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.) is the US-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, a leading worldwide supplier of flash memory and solid state drives (SSDs). From the invention of flash memory to today’s breakthrough BiCS FLASH™ 3D technology, KIOXIA continues to pioneer cutting-edge memory solutions and services that enrich people's lives and expand society's horizons. The company's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, SSDs, automotive and data centers.\n As a Staff Product Manager on the SSD marketing team, you will work cross-functionally with sales, engineering, operations, and management to drive product awareness and design wins for KIOXIA SSD products. You will have the opportunity to define new products and product strategies and will be responsible for setting the product’s strategic vision in addition to optimizing the product's market position and financial returns consistent with corporate key initiatives. You will understand customer applications and ecosystems and have insight into their challenges and how to solve them.\n*This position may have the opportunity for job rotation*\nResponsibilities:\nServe as the “go-to” product leader for Data center/hyperscaler-focused SSD solutions, driving product strategy, roadmap definition, and end-to-end business plans for KIOXIA’s next-generation SSD portfolio\nOwn and drive deep engagement with hyperscale customers (cloud, AI, and large-scale data center operators) to translate evolving infrastructure needs into differentiated product requirements\nLead the development of market requirements documents (MRDs) and product requirement documents (PRDs) by synthesizing customer inputs, workload trends (AI/ML, analytics, cloud storage), and competitive intelligence\nAlign cross-functional execution across marketing, sales, engineering, operations, and support to ensure successful product development, qualification, and deployment at scale\nDefine and execute go-to-market strategies tailored for hyperscale customers, including pricing, positioning, qualification strategy, and volume ramp plans\nDrive design wins and qualifications with hyperscalers, including:Ownership of AVL processes, interop validation, and large-scale deployment readiness\nClose collaboration with ecosystem partners (CPU, GPU, platform, and software vendors)\n\nAnalyze market trends, competitive positioning, and TCO dynamics to define winning product strategies in performance, power, endurance, and cost\nAct as the bridge between technical and commercial domains, ensuring alignment between customer requirements, engineering trade-offs, and business outcomes\nOversee pre-sales and customer engagement activities, including RFQs, RFIs, technical deep-dives, and spec gap analysis\nDevelop customer-facing and internal product collateral, including solution briefs, competitive positioning, and executive presentations\nOwn the full product lifecycle from concept and definition through development, launch, ramp, and end-of-life\nServe as a subject matter expert and evangelist, representing KIOXIA at customer engagements, industry forums (e.g., OCP, NVMe), and with analysts and media\n Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred\n7+ years of product management experience in SSDs, storage, semiconductors, or related hardware technologies\nPrior experience working with or supporting hyperscalers, cloud providers, or large-scale data center customers strongly preferred\nStrong understanding of:SSD architecture, NAND flash, and controller/SoC design\nNVMe ecosystem and next-generation interfaces (PCIe Gen4/5/6 and beyond)\nEnterprise and hyperscale storage systems (block, file, object storage) \n\nFamiliarity with:AI/ML infrastructure and data pipelines (GPU-based systems, KV cache, storage tiering)\nSoftware-defined storage, virtualization, and cloud-native environments (Linux, Kubernetes, etc.) \n\nProven ability to translate complex technical, market, and financial data into clear product strategies and differentiated features\nStrong executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence both internal stakeholders and external customers\nDemonstrated success in managing multiple complex programs, prioritizing under uncertainty, and driving decisions with incomplete data\nExcellent cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills across global teams\nAbility to operate at both strategic and execution levels, from long-term roadmap planning to tactical issue resolution\nRole may require cross-segment flexibility in the future, with the opportunity to rotate between Client (OEM/Notebook), Hyperscale/Data Center or Enterprise (Large OEMs) SSD Product Management to build broad domain expertise and drive unified product strategy\nWillingness to travel (~25%) for customer engagements, design reviews, and industry events\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with hyperscale qualification cycles, deployment models, and fleet-level optimization (performance, power, endurance, TCO)\nExposure to industry standards and consortia (e.g., NVMe, OCP, SNIA)\nBackground in ecosystem collaboration (CPU/GPU vendors, platform providers, storage software vendors)\nExperience in AI-driven storage use cases and next-generation data center architectures\n Req#2248; #LI-CB1;\nThe expected salary for this position is $144,330.00 - $240,550.00.\nAt KIOXIA, we value the following:\nInvestment in youOffering opportunities for career growth and personal development training\n\nOpen-minded managementEmpowering employees by listening and responding to ideas, issues, and approaches\n\nFlexible work-life balanceOffering a generous PTO allotment, holiday shutdown, and flexible work options\n\nDiversity of cultures, perspectives, backgrounds and experiences of all our team membersThrough our diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, our focus is to strengthen our company culture to create more inclusion and belonging for all\n\nBenefits for our team membersExcellent medical and non-medical benefits, 401(k) matching, pet insurance\n\nKIOXIA America, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.\nThis policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6828,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Memory & Storage Chips"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-04T15:16:45Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 11 · green card filings: 3","filings_12m":11,"filings_prev_12m":8,"green_card_filings_12m":3,"median_offered_wage_usd":123929,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":2}],"liveness":{"score":18,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.653,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":92,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:4","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":240550,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kioxia-staff-hyperscale-product-manager-2248","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kioxia-staff-hyperscale-product-manager-2248.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T10:57:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":14087,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":7417},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=7417"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fkioxia-staff-hyperscale-product-manager-2248"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fkioxia-staff-hyperscale-product-manager-2248"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fkioxia-staff-hyperscale-product-manager-2248"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/kioxia-staff-hyperscale-product-manager-2248\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fkioxia-staff-hyperscale-product-manager-2248"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":93947}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"kioxia.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":93947},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}