Senior Product Manager - GL Flex Solutions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Fort Collins, CO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Senior Product Manager - GL Flex Solutions This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: Job Description: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) advances the way people live and work. We bring together the brightest minds to create breakthrough technology solutions, helping our customers make their mark on the world. HPE GreenLake is looking for a seasoned, talented product manager to join a talented product management team to help in the mission of accelerating GreenLake Flex solutions offerings while focusing on the end-to-end customer experience. Getting there takes more than just building great individual as-a-Service offerings to run customers’ workloads. It takes attention to the customer’s entire journey from trial, to onboarding, to consuming services, to billing, to upgrading. This Product Manager will work with teams from various disciplines within HPE to create a first class user experience for standardized offerings, considering the full customer lifecycle. You’ll exemplify the HPE beliefs “Courage Over Comfort” and “Push for Better”, not accepting that something that worked for years is good enough to move Flex Solutions forward. Your work will help shape the customer experience delivered with our Solution sizer and configuration tool, focusing on a first class CPQ experience. You ensure that complex products can be standardized for ease of configuration, pricing, and quoting while maintaining consistency, compliance, and margin objectives across regions and channels. You capture and define requirements, work with Engineering on sizing, prioritize your backlog, maintain a roadmap, and help create marketing collateral, socializing product vision, enabling go-to-market teams, and the like.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, or related field of study. MBA or advanced degree in product management, computer science or engineering preferred.
• 8+ years of work experience in related field
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry
• Extensive team skills and ability to cross functionally drive/influence work through others, ability to mentor and lead teams to achieve results for complex, ambiguous projects.
• Experience with solution sizers, configuration tools and CPQ processes
• Extensive skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis
• Deep understanding of cloud-services, subscription and consumption models in a SaaS world
• Extensive business acumen and knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection.
• Strong executive presence, including ability to partner with and effectively influence Directors, VPs, Client managers
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and ability to provide product specific technical training to the team.

Nice To Haves

• Cross Domain Knowledge
• Customer Engagement
• Design Thinking
• Development Fundamentals
• DevOps
• Go-to-Market Expertise
• Partner Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Security-First Mindset
• Strategic Pricing
• Strategy Creation
• User Experience (UX)
• Value Creation
• Vendor Management

Responsibilities

• Independently leads and drives the end-to-end strategy and operational product roadmap for standardized Flex solutions. This includes the customer experience, offer evolution, pricing, and many other aspects
• Builds and delivers the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case to bring capabilities to market for the given cloud service (i.e., Product configuration mix, Revenue/Margins, financials, market share).
• Synthesizes market requirements (MRD) into marketing/customer details through having intimate customer knowledge and business, financial and industry market acumen.
• Responsible for the product requirements (PRD) definition and execution to meet customer requirements and product capabilities/features.
• Guides key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle (e.g., planning, development, launch, management, exit).
• Creates and drives goal alignment and collaborates across all the value chain partners to achieve product success as per plan and optimize margins across the product lifecycle. (i.e., Engineering, Supply Chain, Marketing, Go-To-Market, Customer Success, etc).
• Executes to the agile product management methodology.
• Identifies and executes on potential partner relationships (technology, reseller and/or system integrator) as required to advance product portfolio, and/or reach

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

What This Job Offers

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