Product Line Manager, Session Smart Router (SSR)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise•Westford, MA

1d•$178,000 - $339,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Product Line Manager to help drive its Session Smart Router (SSR) portfolio. This highly technical individual-contributor role partners with product, engineering, field, and customer-facing teams to shape product strategy, roadmap priorities, releases, and the customer experience. The role translates customer and market requirements into product priorities and helps ensure SSR solutions are deployable, supportable, secure, and well documented. The position is open to candidates anywhere in the United States, with a preference for candidates near Westford, Massachusetts, and/or a major airport. The role is hybrid, requiring an average of two days per week in an HPE office. Occasional travel may be required for customer engagements, planning sessions, and industry events. The employee may also need to support occasional critical global customer situations outside standard business hours. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for applicable federal customer engagements are required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 8 years of experience in enterprise or service-provider networking.
At least 5 years of experience in product management, technical marketing, solutions architecture, engineering, or a related technical role.
Strong knowledge of routing and networking technologies such as BGP, OSPF, segmentation, high availability, QoS, IPsec, and NAT.
Experience with SD-WAN, network security, or related networking technologies.
Experience working across engineering, support, field, and customer-facing organizations.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to technical and business audiences.
Ability to travel for customer engagements, planning sessions, and industry events as needed.
Ability to support occasional critical global customer situations outside standard business hours.
U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for applicable federal customer engagements.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Session Smart Router, 128 Technology, Secure Vector Routing, Conductor, Mist WAN Assurance, or comparable SD-WAN technologies.
Experience supporting federal or regulated markets and associated security or compliance requirements.
Experience with product security processes, security advisories, or security-related customer communications.
Knowledge of networking hardware lifecycle, product pricing, licensing, or SKU management.
Networking or security certifications such as JNCIE, CCIE, CISSP, or equivalent expertise.

Responsibilities

Help define and execute the SSR product roadmap across software, management, and hardware platforms.
Partner with engineering, QA, and program management to establish release priorities, manage dependencies, and communicate product commitments.
Translate customer, field, and market requirements into clear product requirements and priorities.
Support strategic customer engagements, technical discussions, and product escalations.
Partner with engineering, security, support, and other stakeholders on product security, compliance, and customer communications.
Support requirements for federal and regulated markets, including applicable security, certification, and compliance initiatives.
Drive improvements to deployment, upgrade, sizing, and product documentation across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Partner with engineering and hardware product teams on platform requirements, performance, scale, lifecycle, and capacity planning.
Support product lifecycle activities including pricing, licensing, SKU management, offer transitions, and field readiness.
Develop product positioning and technical enablement for sales, solution engineers, partners, and customers.
Use AI and other productivity tools responsibly to improve product requirements, documentation, research, and operational efficiency.