Core Storage Product Manager

Hitachi

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About The Position

Hitachi Vantara is seeking an experienced Product Manager to own and drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution of core storage products and APIs. This role focuses on delivering high-performance, scalable, and reliable data storage capabilities that solve real customer problems and support Hitachi’s long-term platform vision.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in product management or technical product ownership, preferably in storage systems, infrastructure software, or cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of enterprise block storage concepts.
• Familiarity with storage protocols and interfaces (e.g., SCSI, NVMe, iSCSI, Fibre Channel sufficient to make informed product and prioritization decisions.
• Experience owning or defining APIs as a product, including requirements for RESTful APIs and/or gRPC, versioning, and lifecycle management.
• Working knowledge of data protection, replication, availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Ability to engage deeply with engineering teams on architecture and tradeoffs without being responsible for implementation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance customer impact, technical constraints, and business priorities.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence across functions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and lifecycle for core storage capabilities and APIs, aligning business objectives with customer needs and long-term platform strategy.
• Define product requirements and success metrics for data path, management plane, and control plane capabilities, translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable requirements.
• Partner closely with engineering, product marketing, and sales teams to prioritize features, make tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality releases on time.
• Lead requirements and prioritization for storage services such as data protection, replication, deduplication, compression, tiering, and availability, ensuring they deliver measurable customer value.
• Act as the voice of the customer, incorporating feedback from customers, field teams, support, and partners into the product backlog and roadmap.
• Drive API product strategy, ensuring APIs are consistent, well-documented, easy to consume, and aligned with ecosystem and partner integration needs.
• Collaborate with performance and architecture teams to set and validate product-level performance goals, such as latency, throughput, and scalability targets.
• Evaluate market trends, competitive offerings, and emerging technologies in enterprise storage, cloud, and distributed systems to inform product direction.
• Support go-to-market readiness by contributing to product positioning, technical collateral, feature documentation, and internal enablement.
• Clearly communicate product plans, progress, and tradeoffs to stakeholders across engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership.

Benefits

• Industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing.
• Flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees