[Remote] Sr. Product Manager- Platforms

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NetApp is an enterprise storage and data-management company hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead strategy, roadmaps, and lifecycle management for ONTAP systems platforms. The role owns platform positioning, new product introduction programs, competitive requirements, lifecycle transitions, and cross-functional execution with Engineering, Operations, marketing, finance, supply chain, and field sales.


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, with clear prioritization 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 (adoption, capacity growth, and $/GB economics) and translate them into roadmap, packaging, and pricing actions
  • Lead concurrent NPI 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 EOA/EOL 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 show up 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; drive corrective actions that 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 that span multiple product lines and generations
  • A clear, multi-generation platform roadmap that Engineering, Operations, and the field can execute against
  • Concurrent NPI programs delivered with high-quality requirements, prioritized tradeoffs, and on-time launch readiness through close partnership with Engineering and Operations
  • Portfolio swim-lanes and positioning that reduce field ambiguity and quoting friction
  • Lifecycle plans (including end of availability / end of life (EOA/EOL) and sustaining) that protect customer commitments and business economics
  • Competitive gaps translated into requirements, roadmap actions, and field guidance that improve win rate and adoption
  • Trusted partnership with senior leadership, Engineering, and Operations on roadmap, transitions, and platform-level tradeoffs

Skills

  • 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 NPI programs through the full lifecycle: concept> requirements > development > GA > 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
  • Familiarity with NetApp ONTAP or comparable unified storage data services, and how platform hardware enables performance, density, and supportability
  • Experience with storage economics ($/GB), capacity/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
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience preferred

Benefits

  • Potential commission earned when performance targets are achieved
  • Comprehensive benefits package, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
  • Health Insurance, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
  • Life Insurance, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
  • Retirement or Pension Plans, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
  • Paid Time Off, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
  • Various Leave options, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
  • Employee stock purchase plan, subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies
  • Restricted stocks (RSU’s), subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies

Company Overview

  • NetApp specializes in data storage, data infrastructure, and data management solutions. It was founded in 1992, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • NetApp has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 62 in 2026, 189 in 2025, 166 in 2024, 143 in 2023, 250 in 2022, 193 in 2021, 225 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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