Product Planner
About The Position
The Product Planner works on Dell’s Product Management Team in the Client Solutions Group, supporting the company’s client business by defining and delivering PC products. The role owns a multiyear vision and product definition for one or more PC products across Consumer, Commercial, Workstations, or Gaming, and develops product requirements, success metrics, and business cases aligned with Dell’s goals and market opportunities. The Product Planner makes system-level decisions across components such as CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage, and displays, and works with suppliers to align roadmaps with product needs. The role leads cross-functional teams, uses market and customer insights to prioritize investment, helps develop product launch narratives and differentiators, and communicates product strategy and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders.
Requirements
- 12 or more years of related professional experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 8 or more years with a master’s degree, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of relevant product management experience, including direct accountability for launching at least three flagship hardware products.
- Deep system understanding across x86 and Arm CPUs, memory technology, thermal design, displays, and storage devices.
- Strong product sense, including the ability to turn user insights and competitive teardowns or benchmarks into clear, testable requirements and product bets.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement product strategies aligned with company vision and market trends.
- Strong market analysis skills, significant cross-functional collaboration experience, and exceptional leadership and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Expertise in AI PC feature design, including local inference and NPU utilization, and familiarity with common edge AI benchmarks.
- Experience with commercial PC requirements such as manageability, security, and serviceability, or gaming/workstation requirements such as aggressive thermal envelopes and high-TDP GPUs.
- Familiarity with PC-industry supply bases for displays, batteries, and silicon.
- Global customer exposure across different geographies and PC market segments.
Responsibilities
- Define a multiyear vision and own product definition for one or more PC products.
- Write product requirements documents, set success metrics, and be accountable for product outcomes.
- Build business cases that support efficient market coverage, align with Dell’s business goals, and increase market share.
- Drive system-level decisions across CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage, displays, and other components.
- Partner with suppliers to track market trends and shape supplier roadmaps around product trade-offs.
- Lead and align cross-functional teams, including engineering, procurement, and design, around product vision and priorities.
- Use regional sales insights, customer engagements, dedicated research, and market analysis to prioritize product investment opportunities and understand customer needs.
- Help develop product launch narratives and identify product differentiators for customers and sales.
- Deliver concise, executive-ready updates and presentations using data to frame options, trade-offs, and recommendations.
- Lead sales and customer engagements to communicate product vision and strategy to internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify issues early, simplify decision-making, and create clarity when data is ambiguous.
Benefits
- Dell Technologies describes benefits and health support for team members and directs candidates to MyWellatDell.com for details.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
