Director, StoreOnce & Storage Tools Product Management

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Durham, NC

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

Director, StoreOnce & Storage Tools Product Management This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: Ideas that propel our world are born at HPE. Each day, some of the brightest minds in the industry are collaborating, dreaming, and driving solutions on a truly global scale. Our employees are fearlessly creating what's next for our customers - and their own careers. Are you passionate about data protection and recovery storage solutions that enable clients to address the evolving cyber threat landscape? Do you want to inspire a team for portfolio and product offering transformation? Do you thrive at the intersection of customer insight, product strategy, engineering execution, and go-to-market enablement? If your answers are yes, this could be the role for you… HPE is seeking a high-caliber Director, Product Management for StoreOnce Systems, Data Protection Accelerators, Catalyst Software, Cloud Bank Storage, and Integrated Protection solutions within the HPE Storage portfolio. In this hands-on people leadership role you will define and drive the product vision, roadmap, and business outcomes for a portfolio that makes data protection, recovery, and lifecycle management simple, cyber secure, high-performance, and workflow automated for our customers. You will work across engineering, services, finance, marketing, enablement, go-to-market, and sales teams. This position will report into a senior product management executive and actively contribute as a member of the leadership team for the Data Protection Pillar. You will lead and mentor a geographically dispersed team and partner broadly across the business and ISV ecosystem to achieve whole product completeness, financial, and customer adoption goals. What you'll get to do: Shape the future of HPE's data protection and cyber recovery appliance portfolio to enable customers' resilience and operational efficiency. Lead a high-visibility product area with strong growth potential and meaningful influence on Data Protection Pillar transformation. Work with world-class engineering and value-chain teams to deliver products used by large enterprises and service providers. Grow and develop a product management team to be world-class and contribute to HPE's inclusive, high-energy culture. If you love building product strategy, enabling customers at scale, and leading teams to deliver measurable business outcomes, we want to hear from you. Join us and help protect the world's most important data.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, business or related field; advanced degree (MBA, MS) preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant work experience in data protection, storage, systems or related IT infrastructure domains.
• Proven product management and people leadership with at least 8+ years in senior product roles and leading teams.
• Strong technical acumen backed by business acumen: experience owning product financials, pricing, forecasting and P&L responsibilities for a sizeable product line.
• Strategic thinker with strong customer and market orientation; ability to translate insight into clear, impactful product decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally to deliver complex products on schedule and to quality and financial targets.
• Excellent written, verbal and executive communication skills; comfortable presenting to senior leadership, customers and partners.
• Bias for action, pragmatic problem-solver, and strong collaborator.

Nice To Haves

• Deep domain knowledge of data protection, cyber recovery, storage appliances, engineered systems, and related tools.
• International experience and comfort operating in global organizations and markets.
• Recognized leader in shaping technical product strategy and mentoring product teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product strategy, roadmap and lifecycle for a core part of the HPE data protection portfolio.
• Define market segmentation, value propositions, positioning, packaging and commercial strategies (pricing, configuration mix, as‑a‑Service offers) aligned to business objectives.
• Translate market, customer, and competitor insights into prioritized product requirements and clear PRDs; balance short-term tactical needs and long-term investments.
• Drive cross-functional execution with Engineering, Supply Chain, and Services to deliver feature, product, and experience releases.
• Accelerate adoption in as-a-Service and hybrid consumption and operational models such as HPE GreenLake.
• Partner closely with Product Marketing, Sales Enablement and Technical Field teams to produce sales tools, technical collateral, and customer-facing messaging.
• Lead the integration of product portfolio lifecycles into business unit objectives - planning, launch, growth, optimization and end-of-life - with financial and operational metrics.
• Own forecasting, pricing strategies, margin targets and product P&L inputs; provide regular reporting and reconciliations against business goals.
• Act as the product and technology evangelist internally and externally - presenting to executives, customers, partners and analysts - and serve as a trusted advisor to the field.
• Build, lead and develop a high-performing product management organization; set standards, processes and KPIs to drive predictable outcomes.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive and positive team culture while contributing broadly to the storage product management community.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees