Senior Product Manager - File Servers

Commvault

3d•Remote

About The Position

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data. We are seeking a deeply technical Senior Product Manager to lead our File Server data protection and recovery portfolio across enterprise NAS and cloud-based file services. This role requires hands-on expertise with major NAS platforms and the ability to engage at the architectural level with engineering, storage administrators, and cloud infrastructure teams. You will own strategy and execution for protecting large-scale unstructured data environments, delivering resilient, high-performance, and cyber-hardened recovery solutions across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

Requirements

8+ years of product management experience in enterprise storage, NAS systems, or data protection platforms
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline, MBA preferred
Understanding of file system internals, snapshot and replication technologies, NDMP, quotas, tiering, multiprotocol access (NFS/SMB), and scale-out storage architectures
Experience with cloud-based file services (Amazon FSx, Azure Files, Google Filestore, or cloud-hosted NAS solutions)
Ability to engage engineering teams at a design and architectural level, not just at a requirements level
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience designing backup architectures for petabyte-scale NAS deployments
Hybrid cloud file architecture experience spanning on-prem NAS and cloud-native file platforms
Experience influencing storage vendor roadmaps or working with OEM/technology alliance partners
Exposure to high-performance file workloads (AI/ML pipelines, media rendering, analytics datasets)

Responsibilities

Own product strategy and roadmap for enterprise File Server data protection across on-prem NAS and cloud-native file services
Define technically rigorous requirements grounded in deep knowledge of file systems, metadata structures, snapshot technologies, replication models, and change tracking mechanisms
Hands-on experience with at least one major NAS vendor (NetApp,Dell EMC Isilon, HPE, Pure Storage, VAST) and Cloud File services (Azure Files Amazon FSx, EFS, Google Filestore)
Leverage vendor APIs, NDMP, snapshot orchestration, replication frameworks, and scale-out architectures to deliver differentiated capabilities
Design and evolve backup and recovery workflows for large-scale, petabyte-class unstructured data environments
Partner directly with Engineering in architecture reviews, API design discussions, scalability planning, and performance optimization
Validate real-world deployability by engaging hands-on with lab environments, proof-of-concepts, and customer production architectures
Define performance and recovery SLAs, optimize metadata indexing strategies, and address bottlenecks in large directory structures and high-velocity environments
Support technical sales engagements, competitive positioning, and field enablement with strong architectural credibility

Benefits

Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Employee Groups
Generous benefits supporting your health, financial security, and work-life balance
Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

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