Senior Director, Product Marketing

Function Product Marketing Our Company We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data. If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data. This role goes beyond traditional product marketing. We are seeking a strategic and execution-focused Senior Director of Product Marketing to shape and operationalize a platform- and portfolio-first narrative across our storage offerings ensuring customers clearly understand how our innovations come together to deliver business outcomes. This role is critical to advancing Hitachi Vantara’s position as a trusted data foundation for AI and hybrid cloud. You will lead a team that owns our platform and portfolio narrative along with our midrange, high-end enterprise, and software-defined storage product marketing strategy and execution. This position is part of the Global Product Marketing team and reports to the VP, Product Marketing, within the company’s Product organization. Lead Platform & Portfolio Narrative Evolve and build upon unified storage platform story into a clear, outcome-driven value proposition that leads with solutions aligned to hybrid cloud, data modernization, cyber resilience, and AI readiness Define clear positioning against key competitors and ensure differentiation is consistently reflected across all content Ensure consistency across messaging, launches, campaigns, and field activation Translate product capabilities into customer-relevant use cases, solutions, and business outcomes Partner with Sales and Partner teams to deliver clear, actionable messaging and enablement that resonates with customers Build and scale sales plays aligned to priority use cases, ensuring the field can confidently articulate why Hitachi Vantara wins at both platform and product levels ~ Act as strategic partner to product management by bringing the voice of the market (customer, competitive, and analyst insights) into roadmap discussions to influence product strategy Lead and mentor a high-performing team of product marketers fostering a culture of innovation, agility, accountability, and customer-centricity. Bachelor's degree in marketing or equivalent work experience. Minimum of 10 years of experience in product marketing for enterprise B2B technology, software and/or services. Expertise in data infrastructure, storage, hybrid cloud, and/or AI/analytics markets Demonstrated ability to lead product marketing for multi-product portfolios and drive growth in a fast-paced, high-change environment. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions. Creative, proactive leader with growth mindset and exceptional communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills. Expected on-target earnings: $Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara’s bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions. #Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential. Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth. We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic.