Senior Director, Product Marketing

Hitachi • Santa Clara, MA

2d

About The Position

This role goes beyond traditional product marketing. We are seeking a strategic and execution-focused Senior Director of Product Marketing to shape and operationalize a platform- and portfolio-first narrative across our storage offerings ensuring customers clearly understand how our innovations come together to deliver business outcomes. This role is critical to advancing Hitachi Vantara’s position as a trusted data foundation for AI and hybrid cloud. You will lead a team that owns our platform and portfolio narrative along with our midrange, high-end enterprise, and software-defined storage product marketing strategy and execution. This role requires a balance of strategic leadership, executive influence, and operational rigor to collaborate across functions and collectively scale impact globally as a team. This position is part of the Global Product Marketing team and reports to the VP, Product Marketing, within the company’s Product organization. If you thrive at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and influence—and want to play a defining role in shaping market perception in the AI era—we’d love to hear from you.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in marketing or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in product marketing for enterprise B2B technology, software and/or services.
• Expertise in data infrastructure, storage, hybrid cloud, and/or AI/analytics markets.
• Great storytelling skills with the ability to translate technical innovation into clear, compelling narratives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead product marketing for multi-product portfolios and drive growth in a fast-paced, high-change environment.
• Executive presence and experience working with senior leadership.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions.
• Creative, proactive leader with growth mindset and exceptional communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Platform & Portfolio Narrative: Evolve and build upon unified storage platform story into a clear, outcome-driven value proposition that leads with solutions aligned to hybrid cloud, data modernization, cyber resilience, and AI readiness.
• Define clear positioning against key competitors and ensure differentiation is consistently reflected across all content.
• Ensure consistency across messaging, launches, campaigns, and field activation.
• Own Go-to-Market Strategy for Storage Portfolio: Develop and execute GTM strategies across the storage portfolio, including messaging and positioning for VSP One midrange, high-end systems, and SDS offerings.
• Translate product capabilities into customer-relevant use cases, solutions, and business outcomes.
• Drive integrated launches that reflect both portfolio cohesion and product differentiation.
• Cross-functional Collaboration and Leadership: Partner with Sales and Partner teams to deliver clear, actionable messaging and enablement that resonates with customers.
• Build and scale sales plays aligned to priority use cases, ensuring the field can confidently articulate why Hitachi Vantara wins at both platform and product levels.
• Act as strategic partner to product management by bringing the voice of the market (customer, competitive, and analyst insights) into roadmap discussions to influence product strategy.
• Team Leadership & Operational Excellence: Lead and mentor a high-performing team of product marketers fostering a culture of innovation, agility, accountability, and customer-centricity.
• Build repeatable and consistent frameworks for messaging, launches, and portfolio storytelling.
• Establish KPIs to measure impact.

Benefits

• industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing
• flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior