Principal Technical Product Manager

Micron•Folsom, CA

About The Position

Micron Technology is seeking a Technical Product Manager for its Core Data Center Business Unit data center SSD Product Management team. The role helps define and drive the technical development of next-generation Micron data center SSDs. Working within a product line led by a senior TPM, the successful candidate owns requirements for an assigned product, feature area, or customer program and collaborates with customers and internal stakeholders across engineering, operations, media architecture, and other teams. The TPM gathers documented and implicit customer requirements, evaluates gaps against Micron capabilities, and translates needs into clear specifications for OEM server, OEM storage, public cloud, public GPU, Fed/Gov, and Fortune 500 cloud SSD market segments. The role is an independent-contributor position and serves as the go-to technical contact for the assigned area, building trust with Micron engineering and customer technical teams. It is suited to an engineer or product professional interested in customer engagement and product definition, requiring analytical skills, sound trade-off judgment, curiosity, clear communication, and a passion for storage and SSDs. The US base salary range is $114,000–$224,000 per year. Additional compensation may include benefits, bonuses, and equity. Salary depends on role level, location, and job-related factors. Micron offers medical, dental, and vision plans, income-protection benefits, paid family leave, paid time off, and paid holidays. The position is described as full-time.

Requirements

Ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Advanced knowledge in one storage-related domain, or thorough working knowledge across several, such as NVMe interface, NAND, ASIC, DRAM, networking, firmware, software, validation, servers, GPUs, or QoS.
Experience writing or contributing to requirements, specifications, or test plans that translate customer or system needs into clearly defined features.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including comfort working through ambiguity within direction set by others.
Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to exchange complex technical information with colleagues, managers, and customer engineers.
Curiosity about how current product needs shape future requirements and interest in growing toward broader product strategy ownership.
Working business acumen, including understanding how cost, schedule, and market timing affect product decisions.
Experience working with cross-functional teams and across multiple locations and organizational boundaries.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
BS or BA degree in engineering or a technical field.
At least 3 years of combined engineering, product development, applications, or customer-facing experience in storage and/or semiconductors; an MS or PhD in a relevant field may offset some of the experience requirement.
Solid state drive and/or hard disk drive experience.

Nice To Haves

Customer-facing technical experience with OEM, hyperscale, or enterprise storage customers.
Familiarity with data center SSD industry specifications such as NVMe, PCIe, and the OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD specification.
Exposure to SSD product development stage gates, qualification, or product life-cycle management processes.
MS or PhD in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

Represent the customer on product development teams for an assigned product, feature set, or customer program, executing against the product plan established by the product line lead.
Own and maintain customer-driven requirements documents and contribute to launch materials, technical marketing collateral, and datasheets.
Compare product and customer requirements, perform specification-gap and competitive analyses, and recommend ways to close gaps.
Work with engineering to evaluate issues, define solutions, and inform development decisions and trade-offs.
Track current and emerging SSD features and data center storage market trends, assessing opportunities based on business viability, technology feasibility, and end-customer workloads and use cases.
Build technical relationships with customer engineering teams, understand their requirements, workloads, and pain points, and feed findings into product and pathfinding discussions.
Prepare and present content for concept reviews, design reviews, and technical stage-gate reviews.
Support Quarterly Technical Reviews and other engagements with OEMs, hyperscalers, and industry partners by presenting material for the assigned area.
Ensure the assigned area's data center SSD needs are represented in Micron's Product Life-Cycle Management planning process.
Maintain accurate product technical details and data in Micron databases and requirements-management tools.
Plan and run small projects or workstreams end to end, such as feature definition, competitive analysis, or a customer technical issue.
Work with technical customer teams to help resolve customer technical issues.
Share knowledge with less experienced team members and develop cross-domain expertise through new assignments.
Apply LLM-based and agentic AI tools to accelerate requirements analysis, documentation, and cross-program comparisons, including reusable automated requirements comparison and validation processes.