Principal Product Manager – VME (Hardening & Strategic Customer Engagement)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Fort Collins, CO

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Principal Product Manager – VME (Hardening & Strategic Customer Engagement) 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: Product Hardening, Strategic Customer engagement The Product Manager for VME is responsible for driving platform hardening and strengthening the team’s ability to respond effectively to customer and sales escalations. This role focuses on improving reliability, security, and operational readiness of the VME platform while acting as a key product interface for strategic customers. The PM works closely with engineering, support, sales, and customer success to prioritize issues, address escalations, and translate real-world customer needs into actionable product improvements that increase trust, stability, and adoption. Management Level Definition: Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent. Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization. We are looking for Product Managers with deep domain expertise in Virtualization Kubernetes/Containers to join our team. Why consider this? Foundational Impact: We aren’t just "tweaking" features. You’ll be at the helm of core Virtualization and K8s innovation, solving the architectural challenges that define the modern data center. The Best of Both Worlds: We have the resources of a "Full Stack" Hybrid Cloud leader, but the soul of an entrepreneur. You’ll have the autonomy to move fast, take risks, and actually see your roadmap come to life. Performance + Purpose: We’re proving that enterprise-class reliability doesn't have to be overpriced or over-complicated. We’re delivering world-class performance backed by a global support engine.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study.
• MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.
• 10+ years of work experience in related field
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry
• Knowledge and Skills: Extensive team skills and ability to cross functionally drive/influence work through others, ability to mentor and lead teams to achieve results for complex, ambiguous projects.
• Extensive skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis
• Extensive business acumen and knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection.
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and ability to provide product specific technical training to the team.

Nice To Haves

• Cross Domain Knowledge
• Customer Engagement
• Design Thinking
• Development Fundamentals
• DevOps
• Go-to-Market Expertise
• Partner Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Security-First Mindset
• Strategic Pricing
• Strategy Creation
• User Experience (UX)
• Value Creation
• Vendor Management

Responsibilities

• Independently leads and drives the end-to-end strategy and operational product roadmap for one or more complex products or a product portfolio.
• Builds and delivers the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case to bring innovative and disruptive products to market for a product portfolio with respect to the whole company product portfolio (i.e. Product configuration mix, Revenue/Margins, financials, market share).
• Synthesizes market requirements (MRD) into marketing/customer details through having intimate customer knowledge and business, financial and industry market acumen.
• Guides key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle (e.g., planning, development, launch, management, exit).
• Creates and drives goal alignment and collaborates across one or more products' value chain partners to optimize margins and enable success of products per plans across the product lifecycle. (ie. Engineering: product development, Supply Chain: SKUs, inventory and Marketing: marketing and pricing strategies and Go to Market Plan).

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: Mid Level