Senior Technical Product Manager - Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

Senior Technical Product Manager – Software-Defined Networking (Sdn)

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

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:

The Senior Technical Product Manager (SDN) is responsible for driving SDN architecture and delivering scalable, production-ready reference designs, including L4–L7 network services. This role leads cross-functional efforts to define, document, and validate SDN solutions that meet stringent performance, scale, security, and reliability requirements across enterprise and service provider environments.

This position works closely with engineering, architecture, field teams, partners, and customers to ensure SDN solutions are practical, consumable, and deployable at scale. The TPM translates customer needs, operational best practices, and product capabilities into clear, actionable guidance that accelerates adoption and enables operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive SDN architecture strategy and deliver scalable reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guides, including L4–L7 services such as load balancing, firewalling, NAT, and ADC.
• Define and document end-to-end SDN solution designs spanning virtualization platforms, private cloud architectures, and network virtualization stacks.
• Translate complex distributed systems into clear diagrams, workflows, and step-by-step deployment patterns for internal and external consumption.
• Define and validate non-functional requirements, including availability, performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure architectures are production-ready, support advanced network services, and scale across on-prem, hybrid, and edge environments.

Product Strategy & Execution

• Lead and drive the end-to-end product strategy and operational roadmap for one or more SDN-related products or solution areas.
• Define the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case for innovative and disruptive networking and virtualization solutions.
• Synthesize market requirements (MRD) into detailed product and customer guidance, leveraging deep customer insight, industry expertise, and business acumen.
• Advise key stakeholders on portfolio and lifecycle strategy across planning, development, launch, management, and end-of-life phases.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, sales, marketing, supply chain, and partners to ensure solutions are technically sound, easy to consume, and aligned with overall product strategy.
• Drive alignment across the product value chain to optimize margins, enable successful launches, and execute effective go-to-market strategies.
• Provide technical enablement and product-specific training to field, partners, and internal teams.

Required Technical Expertise:

• Virtualization Platforms: VMware (vSphere / ESXi), KVM
• Private Cloud Architectures: On-prem, hybrid, and edge environments
• Software-Defined Networking:
  • VMWare NSX
  • Nutanix Network Virtualization (Nutanix Flow)
• Networking Fundamentals:
  • Network architecture and design
  • L2–L3 networking concepts
  • Network virtualization
• Advanced Network Services (L4–L7): Load Balancing, Firewall, NAT, ADC
• Security: CISSP preferred

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• MBA or advanced degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience in networking, virtualization, cloud, or infrastructure software.
• Strong technical understanding of enterprise and service provider networking ecosystems.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Expert ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Proven strength in technical decision-making, cost-efficient solution design, and financial performance analysis.
• Strong business acumen with expertise in problem identification, root-cause analysis, and structured execution.
• Ability to bridge deep technical detail and executive-level communication, enabling alignment across technical and business stakeholders.

Additional Skills: 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

What We Can Offer You:

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.