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You will engage with customers, partners, engineering leaders, and field experts to understand their needs, translate complex hypervisor and cloud capabilities into differentiated, market-leading products, and own the roadmap that delivers scalable, secure, and high-performance virtualization solutions. You will partner closely with strategic alliance and ISV partners - including the industry-leading hypervisor and hyperscaler vendors - to expand NetApp's routes to market and accelerate customer outcomes. This role reports to a Director, Product Management.\nJob Responsibilities\nIndependently lead the product strategy, roadmap, business goals, and growth targets for one or more virtualization products or the broader virtualization platform portfolio across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud deployments.\nOwn both inbound and outbound product management - synthesizing market and competitive analysis, customer requirements, and use cases into PRFAQs, defining the roadmap and prioritization, and guiding offerings through the product lifecycle.\nDefine and drive the virtualization value proposition - performance benchmarks, TCO advantages, and feature differentiation - to support go-to-market strategies and sales enablement.\nBuild tight alignment with leading hypervisor and hyperscaler partners (both technical and business functions), services, customers, sales, and channel partners essential to your programs.\nLead cross-functional execution across Product, Engineering, Sales, Legal, Finance, Support, and Marketing - acting as the integrator who connects Field, Partner, and Alliance/ISV teams to deliver quality releases on schedule.\nServe as the virtualization subject matter authority and external evangelist - directing internal teams, enabling sales and partner communities, and representing the product to customers, executives, and industry forums.\nPartner with sales, marketing, and ecosystem partners on go-to-market plays that drive customer adoption, expansion, and retention, reporting business KPIs through a regular cadence of reviews.\nShift comfortably between strategy and tactical execution, staying focused on current and future customer needs and using data and metrics to maximize decision quality.\nJob Requirements\nProven experience defining product line roadmap and strategy, with strong inbound and outbound product management skills.\nProven leadership working cross-functionally with engineering, sales, legal, finance, support, and marketing, driving results by influencing people across levels and groups.\nExceptional ability to communicate concisely and persuasively, influencing others both internally and externally.\nStrong documentation skills, with the ability to produce clear, high-quality PRDs, MRDs, product specifications, and customer-facing collateral.\nStrong technical and business fluency - translating data and market insights into business cases and success metrics, and decomposing complex technical propositions into business opportunities.\nA growth mindset with a high bias for action and a track record of driving successful product roadmaps, with relentless focus on performance metrics and customer outcomes.\nHigh level of integrity, excellent business judgment, and strong leadership abilities.\nTechnical Skills & Domain Expertise\nIn-depth understanding of virtualization market dynamics, key trends, total addressable market (TAM), and the competitive landscape, translating market insights into product strategy.\nSignificant hands-on virtualization experience across multiple industry-leading hypervisors, with a strong grasp of VM lifecycle management, live migration, and resource scheduling.\nKnowledge of key virtualization vendors (Broadcom/VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, Nutanix) is critical, alongside hands-on experience with one or more hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to deliver cloud-first solutions.\nStrong technical foundation in storage and data management principles - replication, migration, protection, and governance; familiarity with NetApp's products and competitive landscape is a plus.\nExperience with containers and modern infrastructure, including Kubernetes; public cloud or service provider experience is an advantage.\nExperience with enterprise database and application platforms such as Microsoft SQL, SAP HANA, and Oracle Database is a plus.\nComfortable bridging product management, program management, partnership management, services delivery, support, and sales and channel.\nEducation and Experience\nBachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, or a related field is required; an MBA or advanced technical degree is preferred.\n12+ years of relevant experience, including 8+ years of product management, product marketing, business consulting, or business operations experience.\n5+ years working with virtualization, with experience across multiple hypervisor vendors, hybrid cloud, and service provider environments.\n8+ years in the storage and/or data management industry, on the vendor side, is strongly preferred.\nCompensation:\nThe target salary range for this position is 196,350 - 292,600 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. The range is based on 'On Target Earnings’ (OTE) representing the total potential earnings, which is the sum of the base salary and potential commission earned when performance targets are achieved. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s). These offerings are subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. 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