Senior Product Manager - References & Design Guide (Private Cloud / CloudOps Suite

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Sunnyvale, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Designs, plans, develops and manages a product or portfolio of products throughout the solution portfolio lifecycle: from new product definition or enhancements to existing products; planning, design, forecasting, and production; to end of life. The Senior Product Manager is responsible for defining and delivering reference architectures and design guides that enable customers and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to successfully build and operate Private Cloud environments using the HPE CloudOps Suite. This role translates customer needs, operational best practices, and product capabilities into clear, actionable guidance that drives adoption, scalability, and operational excellence. Ability to create reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guides Translate complex systems into clear diagrams and step-by-step flows Define non-functional requirements (availability, performance, security, cost) The Senior Product Manager collaborates closely with engineering, architecture, sales, and partners to ensure designs are technically sound, easy to consume, and aligned with product strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study.
• 8+ years of work experience in related field.
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry.
• Expert 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.
• Expert skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis.
• Expert business acumen and knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection.
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and ability to provide product specific technical training to the team.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads and drives the end-to-end strategy and operational product roadmap for one or more products.
• Defines the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case to bring one or more innovative and disruptive products to market with respect to the whole company product portfolio (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.
• Advises 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 one or more products' value chain partners to optimize margins and enable success of products per plans across the product lifecycle. (ie. Engineering: product development, Supply Chain: SKUs, inventory and Marketing: marketing and pricing strategies and Go To Market Plan).

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: Senior