Lead Product Manager, AI Storage Solutions

Sandisk • Milpitas, CA

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About The Position

As a Lead Product Manager, AI Storage Solutions, you will define the strategic vision, roadmap, and execution plan for next-generation memory solutions that enable cutting-edge AI, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing ecosystems. You will serve as the connective tissue across engineering, marketing, operations, and hyperscale customers—driving competitive differentiation and business growth for high-performance memory products.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in product management
• Minimum of 2 years experience in AI Architectures for datacenters or on-device
• Strong desire to take ownership of the full product lifecycle
• Proven track record of managing and launching successful emerging technology products.
• Deep understanding of flash memory technology and AI Storage Solutions, 3D stacking, TSV architectures.
• NAND-based high bandwidth architectures.
• Any knowledge of AI software stack will be a added advantage.

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate market trends into actionable product strategies.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Experience presenting to senior level audiences
• This is an Individual contributor (IC) role.
• Any people management skills will be an added advantage

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year product roadmap, aligning with technology inflection points such as AI Storage Solutions, and emerging AI Storage Solutions architectures.
• Translate market dynamics, customer signals, and competitive insights into product requirements (MRD/PRD).
• Lead deep technical engagements with hyperscalers and chipmakers (e.g., NVIDIA, AMD), turning customer performance, latency, and capacity needs into engineering deliverables.
• Position product solutions for AI inference, KV-cache, and memory-centric architectures informed by industry trends, inference context memory, KV-tiering.
• Build business cases including TAM/SAM/SOM models, pricing strategies, investment requirements, and ROI modeling.
• Guide lifecycle execution from concept → development → through cross-functional program reviews (Stage Gate).
• Partner closely with ASIC, firmware, NAND, system, and quality teams to drive technical readiness and performance targets.
• Manage supplier relationships and work with supply chain to ensure cost, yield, and delivery success.
• Coordinate internal alignment with engineering, reliability, operations, and exec staff.
• Maintain a robust understanding of the semiconductor memory landscape—AI Storage Solutions competition, NAND-AI Storage Solutions, emerging AI architectures, and customer platform roadmaps.

Benefits

• Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program
• restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents
• paid vacation time
• paid sick leave
• medical/dental/vision insurance
• life, accident and disability insurance
• tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• employee assistance program
• other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• tuition reimbursement
• transit
• the Applause Program
• employee stock purchase plan
• Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior