Director, Product Management

Director, Product Management

Supermicro is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Supermicro is seeking for multiple director‑level candidates with superior knowledge, leadership, analytical, strategic, and mentorship skills to be part of our fast‑growing server department. This individual will work with external clients and feedback to design team to drive the development and improvement of storage server products. Additionally, the candidate will take the lead in creating aggressive go‑to‑market plan, and develop product roadmap, strategically place the in‑house server products in the market to ensure maximum visibility. This position will be based at our headquarters located in San Jose, CA.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage in-house server products through entire product lifecycle from POC to EOL
• Analyze market and business trends, develop tactics and programs to grow market share through strategically positioned Supermicro server products to maximize competitiveness
• Work closely with customers to define and refine the specifications of the products, work closely with cross‑functional engineering teams to ensure the products meet the expectation of external clients.
• Lead research and analysis of technology, customer, and competitor trends to develop platform portfolio strategy and roadmap
• Work closely with customers and internal teams to represent voice of the customer and field in planning
• Identify, prioritize, and address requirements of enterprise customers for existing and emerging use cases with evolving datacenter deployment considerations
• Coordinate with cross‑functional teams to drive NPI and go‑to‑market roadmap execution

Qualifications:

• Bachelor in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent experiences; Master's degree in engineering discipline or business is highly preferable
• 15+ years of extensive product leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people management and influence skills
• In‑depth knowledge in server products its architecture, and product roadmap
• Must have business acumen and ability to build business cases, communicate effectively with professionally done presentations and write‑ups, influence others, and measure success
• Develop, install, and evaluate new and revised methods, procedures, and performance standards to meet established goals and objectives
• Ability to be self‑motivated towards the achievement and measurement of established goals
• Aptitude to develop and maintain satisfactory working relationships with both the client and internal staff members and to deal effectively with conflicts

Salary Range $219,000 - $249,000. The salary offered will depend on several factors, including your location, level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as participation in bonus and equity award programs.

Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.