Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager

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:

We are seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager to bring our Private Cloud AI product to the next level. As a Senior Product Manager for PCAI, you will be at the forefront of building and integrating cutting-edge AI and data infra technologies into our private cloud products. You will have a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions and work closely with GTM teams to bring the new generation of products to market. This role involves leading the strategy, development, execution, and evolution of data infra solutions for Private Cloud AI, HPE's end-to-end AI solutions that enables data scientists and ML engineers to build and operate ML workflows at scale in an enterprise environment.

The ideal candidate has experience building products for the enterprise and is passionate about working with strategic customers and our Go-to-Market (GTM) team. This role requires close collaboration with our engineering, design, partnerships, research, and GTM teams.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions impact technical components of HPE products, solutions, or services regularly and sustainable. Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Provides expertise and partnership to functional and technical project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Exercises significant independent judgment to determine best method for achieving objectives. May provide team leadership and mentoring to others.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute a product strategy to unlock AI opportunities across the world's largest organizations
• Independently leads and drives the end to end strategy and operational product roadmap for one or more complex products or a product portfolio.
• Builds and delivers the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case to bring innovative and disruptive products to market for a product portfolio 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.
• 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 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).

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study. MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.
• 12+ years of work experience in HPC or AI/ML platform infrastructure or related field
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the HPC or AI/ML tooling and infrastructure industry.
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry

Knowledge and Skills:

• 12 + years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, with a focus on HPC or AI/ML and data infrastructure
• Demonstrate strong technical acumen across enterprise AI and data workflows. Expertise in HPC, AI and ML hardware, ecosystem, and software a plus.
• Experience motivating others at all levels by creating a shared sense of vision and purpose.
• 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.
• Have proven experience working in a technical environment with cross-functional teams to drive product vision, define requirements, and guide the team through key milestones.
• Showcase strong leadership, organizational, and execution skills, along with proven communication abilities
• Experience working with partners and the ecosystem through the full product life cycle: inception, launch, and customer management.
• Extensive skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and ability to provide product specific technical training to the team.

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.