Principal Technical Product Manager

Micron Technology • San Jose, CA

1d • $162,000 - $319,000

About The Position

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. This role involves owning end-to-end product requirements and technical strategy for one or more SSD product lines, from concept through qualification and volume ramp. The position requires driving technical tradeoff decisions across NAND, controller/ASIC, firmware, and system-level interfaces, balancing performance, cost, schedule, and customer commitments. It also involves identifying and pursuing innovation opportunities, including invention disclosures, new architecture approaches, and process or tooling improvements, that scale impact beyond a single program. Leveraging AI to enhance work efficiency and effectiveness is also a part of this role.

Requirements

• Principal Technical Product Manager role requires a strong technical background and experience in product management.
• Experience representing company roadmaps and architecture to customers.
• Ability to translate customer specifications and requirements into product requirements.
• Experience in industry and standards forums.
• Experience coordinating customer qualification and transition planning.
• Proven ability to build relationships with customer stakeholders.
• Experience aligning engineering teams around priorities.
• Partnership with sales and segment leadership.
• Experience briefing executive and cross-functional leadership.
• Cross-functional coordination skills.
• Mentorship experience.
• End-to-end product requirements and technical strategy ownership.
• Ability to drive technical tradeoff decisions.
• Experience identifying and pursuing innovation opportunities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI tools to enhance work efficiency and effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Primary technical point of contact: represent Micron's Data Center SSD roadmap, architecture, and qualification plans directly to strategic hyperscale and OEM customer engineering and technical leadership.
• Requirements translation: lead the gathering and translation of customer specifications, RFIs/RFQs, and platform constraints into clear product requirements (MRDs) and engineering-actionable decisions.
• Industry and standards influence: represent Micron in ecosystem and standards forums (e.g., PCIe-SIG, OCP, JEDEC), building external credibility and shaping specifications relevant to Micron's product direction.
• Customer qualification and transition planning: coordinate engineering and qualification samples, qualification schedules, and escalation paths to keep customer platform timelines (EVT/DVT/PVT) on track.
• Relationship building: build durable, trust-based relationships with customer technical and program stakeholders, positioning Micron as a preferred long-term partner rather than a transactional supplier.
• Engineering alignment: align ASIC, firmware, and systems engineering teams around customer- and market-driven priorities, translating external requirements into technical tradeoff discussions and driving decisions when priorities conflict.
• Sales and segment partnership: partner with segment and sales leadership to shape account strategy, volume forecasts, and positioning, ensuring product plans reflect commercial priorities and commercial plans reflect technical reality.
• Executive communication: brief executive and cross-functional leadership on program status, risks, and strategic recommendations, serving as a clear, credible voice on complex technical and customer topics.
• Cross-functional coordination: work closely with NPI, Business Operations, and Technical Customer Management (TCM)/FAE teams to keep customer commitments, supply plans, and qualification milestones synchronized.
• Mentorship and scale: mentor other product managers and technical program managers, scaling technical depth and customer-engagement practices across the broader product management organization.
• Own end-to-end product requirements and technical strategy for one or more SSD product lines, from concept through qualification and volume ramp.
• Drive technical tradeoff decisions across NAND, controller/ASIC, firmware, and system-level interfaces, balancing performance, cost, schedule, and customer commitments.
• Identify and pursue innovation opportunities — including invention disclosures, new architecture approaches, and process or tooling improvements — that scale impact beyond a single program.
• Leveraging AI to enchance work efficiency and effectiveness.

Benefits

• Choice of medical, dental and vision plans
• Benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury
• Paid family leave
• Robust paid time-off program
• Paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed