Product Line Manager, Session Smart Router (SSR)
About The Position
HPE Networking is seeking a Product Line Manager to help drive the 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 overall customer experience. The role is open to candidates anywhere in the United States, with preference for candidates near Westford, Massachusetts, and/or a major airport. Occasional travel may be required. The Product Line Manager translates customer and market requirements into product priorities and helps ensure SSR solutions are deployable, supportable, secure, and well documented. The role includes working with technical, business, and customer-facing teams; supporting federal and regulated-market requirements; and improving product lifecycle, field readiness, and customer-facing technical enablement. The position is hybrid, with an average of two days per week in an HPE office. The role may require support for occasional critical global customer situations outside standard business hours, and requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain any security clearance required for applicable federal engagements.
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 communicate 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.
- Improve 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.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits intended to support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
- Programs and resources for personal and professional development and career goals.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
