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Principal Product Manager

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States; Waltham, Massachusetts, United States; San Jose, California, United States; Wichita, Kansas, United States; San Francisco, California, United States

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Overview

At NetApp, we have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. That’s because we bring new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively in the most efficient possible way. As an Engineer with NetApp, you’ll have the opportunity to work with modern cloud and container orchestration technologies in a production setting. You’ll play an important role in scaling systems sustainably through automation and evolving them by pushing for changes to improve reliability and velocity.

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  • Analytical
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  • Communicator
  • Detail-oriented
  • Quick-thinking
  • Problem solver

Responsibilities

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States; Waltham, Massachusetts, United States; San Jose, California, United States; Wichita, Kansas, United States; San Francisco, California, United States Job category: Engineering Job ID: 129054-en_US

About NetApp

NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, turning a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. No matter the data type, workload or environment, we help our customers identify and realize new business possibilities. And it all starts with our people.

If this sounds like something you want to be part of, NetApp is the place for you. You can help bring new ideas to life, approaching each challenge with fresh eyes. We embrace diversity and openness because it's in our DNA. Of course, you won't be doing it alone. At NetApp, we're all about asking for help when we need it, collaborating with others, and partnering across the organization - and beyond.

"At NetApp, we fully embrace and advance a diverse, inclusive global workforce with a culture of belonging that leverages the backgrounds and perspectives of all employees, customers, partners, and communities to foster a higher performing organization."-George Kurian, CEO

Job Summary

NetApp is looking for a Principal Product Manager to join the cloud storage product management team, to build products, solutions, and drive strategic initiatives across NetApp first-party cloud storage portfolio that includes Azure NetApp Files, FSxN for NetApp ONTAP, and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. In this role you will follow a working backwards from the customer approach to build and launch products and services from scratch, partnering with engineering teams, sales (pre and post), customer success, professional services teams, and other stakeholders to deliver products and services that delights customers. 
To succeed you must be a self-starter and have an entrepreneurial mindset. You will have to ideate new concepts that can be productized to accelerate revenue growth for the cloud storage business that includes bringing new workloads on NetApp cloud storage including AI apps. You must also demonstrate a high level of ownership and insist on the highest standards of product quality, operational excellence, and tech support. You will cut through the noise, relentlessly simplify, and deliver outstanding results. Prior experience working on storage systems, especially cloud storage is preferred.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive the development of new SaaS offerings from ideation to launch working with cross-functional teams that include engineering, customer success, professional services, sales, and marketing.
  • Identify new product opportunities especially in the field of GenAI and deliver on them to accelerate revenue growth.
  • Drive initiatives to bring new workloads to NetApp first-party cloud storage portfolio and help accelerate the migration of such workloads from on-premises and other cloud storage services.

Job Requirements

  • 10 - 12+ years of industry experience in software product management (preferably in infrastructure/systems software products).
  • Must be hands-on and deeply technical with the ability to confidently demonstrate products to various stakeholders and test products to provide feedback to engineering.
  • Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
  • Must be able to gather, organize, crunch, and analyze customer and partner data to determine product feature uptake/adoption/non-adoption reasons.
  • Must have the ability to deal with ambiguity and make abstract ideas concrete.
  • Must be an inspirational product leader -- must be able to motivate, inspire, and excite teams around a product vision.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Building SaaS products or fully managed services from scratch.
  • A thorough understanding of public cloud (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) storage services and data storage/ data management fundamentals.
  • Practitioner of working backwards framework for building new a new service/feature/functionality.
  • Knowledgeable about modern compute paradigms including Kubernetes, containers, and micro VMs.

Education

  • 4-year BA/BS mandatory, in computer science, data science, electrical engineering, or equivalent technical degree.
  • MBA degree is preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

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Why NetApp?

We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches.

We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time per year to volunteer with their favorite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. Finally, we provide financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.

If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.

Submitting an application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.


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Our values

Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

Volunteer time off

40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

Well-being

Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

Time away

Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

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Equal Opportunity Employer*

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status and any other protected classification. We pledge to take every reasonable step to ensure that our applicants and employees are respected, treated fairly and with dignity. See the EEO poster, Know your rights poster, and NetApp EEO policy. NetApp makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for religious purposes and for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions unless undue hardship would result.

State-specific postings/notices to applicants regarding contract compliance can be found here in English and here in Spanish, and fair employment practice information can be found here.

Reasonable accommodation

If you are an applicant with a physical or mental disability requiring an accommodation, or you require a religious accommodation for any part of our application process, please email gdib@netapp.com. Each request for reasonable accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis, consistent with applicable laws and regulations. Please note, this email address is only for accommodation requests; we do not accept unsolicited resumes.

Data privacy

We care about your privacy and therefore ask that you read our Applicant Privacy Policy (PDF) before you submit any personal information to us.

NetApp may use an automated employment evaluation tool or similar tool as one of several tools, actions, and/or steps to assist with NetApp’s review of candidate applications for various hiring needs. Currently, when addressing certain hiring needs, NetApp uses the Eightfold tool which can provide an initial ranking of a candidate’s skills and experience, based on information provided by the applicant in the application and/or supporting documentation, in comparison to the NetApp designated key requirements of a specific role. Additionally, the tool may be used to help review and /or rank internal employees seeking promotion or other internal mobility.

An independent audit of the Eightfold Matching Model tool can be found at https://eightfold.ai/nyc-eightfoldmatching-model.

Candidates may request an alternative selection process which will not be subject to the Eightfold matching tool or to any electronic automated employment evaluation by contacting NetApp at careers@netapp.com. To bypass the Eightfold matching tool or any electronic automated employment evaluation, you must include a resume and job ID with your email to careers@netapp.com and you must include in the subject line of your email: Data Privacy Request. Candidates who have questions or want to request additional information on the source of data, type of data, and/or collection of data related to the candidate review process should contact NetApp at careers@netapp.com

Submitting an application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

*Applies to applicants for employment in the United States.