Campus Switching Product Manager Graduate
About The Position
As an Associate Product Manager, you will work alongside product leaders, architects, and engineers to help shape the strategy and roadmap for HPE Networking CX Switching and its role in advancing the Self-Driving Network. You will gain experience across the full product lifecycle, translating customer needs, technology developments, and market opportunities into product requirements, business cases, competitive differentiation, and customer solutions. HPE Networking is building the Self-Driving Network, transforming enterprise networks into systems that increasingly predict, act, and optimize with greater autonomy. CX Switching is a critical foundation of this vision, combining high-performance switching and AOS-CX with cloud management, automation, telemetry, and AI-driven intelligence to simplify network operations and support increasingly autonomous networks. This role is hybrid, with an expectation to work on average two days per week from an HPE office.
Requirements
- MBA or related master’s degree completed by the start date.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated interest in enterprise networking and emerging infrastructure technologies.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to understand complex technologies and translate them into customer and business value.
Nice To Haves
- Networking experience through internships, engineering, technical sales, consulting, laboratory work, or relevant coursework.
- Understanding of Ethernet switching and routing concepts, including VLANs, Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking, IPv4/IPv6, routing protocols, and network resiliency.
- Hands-on experience with HPE, Cisco, Juniper, Arista, or other enterprise networking technologies.
- Exposure to automation, Python, APIs, telemetry, Linux, cloud technologies, or AI.
- HPE Networking, CCNA, JNCIA, or equivalent networking certification.
- Experience with product requirements, competitive analysis, business cases, pricing, or financial analysis.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to product strategy and roadmaps for CX Switching and the HPE Self-Driving Network.
- Translate customer requirements, market trends, competitive insights, and emerging technologies into product requirements and recommendations.
- Partner with hardware, software, silicon, cloud, and AI engineering teams to define next-generation switching products and capabilities.
- Explore how automation, telemetry, cloud operations, and AI-driven intelligence can simplify enterprise network operations.
- Develop market, competitive, pricing, cost, and business-case analyses.
- Engage with customers, partners, sales teams, and technical experts to understand evolving enterprise networking requirements.
- Support products throughout the lifecycle, from concept and development through launch, growth, and lifecycle transitions.
- Help define differentiated value propositions and positioning for new CX Switching products and capabilities.
- Develop clear, data-driven recommendations for technical and business leaders.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
- Career development programs supporting professional growth and career goals.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
