Product Manager - Tape Automation

Job Description

Job Description

Quantum Corp. leads the world in helping users collaboratively solve some of the world's hardest computer challenges. Whether its wrangling Petabytes of data for cutting edge movie production, managing global content production workflows, exploring new sources of energy, or managing oceans of content and blending collaborative high-speed workflows with cutting-edge object storage, Quantum has the tools and technology to help you engineer the solution that works now - and preserves your work for decades to come. You are applying to an exceptional team that contributes to enhancing our position as a proven global expert in data management.

Quantum is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead product strategy, roadmap development, and end-to-end lifecycle management for the Scalar tape library platforms and tape automation solutions. Scalar is Quantum’s low-cost, secure and intelligent storage for long-term data archiving and cyber protection solutions. Scalar libraries are ideal long-term storage for compliance, digital media, and image archiving. As a result, it has emerged as a key part of cloud and hyperscale infrastructures using RAIL architecture. As Product Manager, you will define the vision, translate customer needs into requirements, work closely with Engineering on execution, and ensure the product’s success in highly demanding enterprise and cloud-integrated environments.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Market Leadership

• Define and evolve the long-term vision for Scalar.
• Identify and validate new market opportunities for archiving, compliance, retention, and automation solutions.
• Monitor competitive trends to guide market positioning.

Roadmap Definition & Execution

• Own and maintain the Scalar roadmap, balancing customer needs, competitive pressures, and engineering capacity.
• Prioritize features using customer input, business value, telemetry insights, and technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with Engineering to determine release scope, detailed requirements, acceptance criteria, and milestones.

Requirements & Product Design

• Gather feedback from customers, partners, and field teams to translate real-world use cases into clear product requirements.
• Write detailed MRDs, PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria for major enhancements
• Partner with architects, QA, and UX teams to develop intuitive management workflows, dashboards, and API-driven integrations.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as the primary interface between Engineering, Sales, Support, Marketing, Operations, and Executive teams for all Scalar initiatives.
• Work with Customer Support and L3 Engineering to identify recurring issues, drive product quality improvements, and ensure supportability in large deployments.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineering to provide competitive guidance, develop solution architectures, and support strategic customer engagements.

Customer, Partner & Ecosystem Engagement

• Engage directly with enterprise customers, ISVs, and cloud partners to gather insights, validate roadmap features, and support major deployments.
• Lead roadmap presentations, customer briefings, and technical workshops for key accounts.
• Build strong relationships within the tape library ecosystem, including data protection, archiving, compliance, and workflow partners.

Lifecycle Management

• Manage the product lifecycle from concept to GA, through maintenance releases, refresh cycles, and EOL planning.
• Contribute to pricing, licensing models, capacity planning, and hardware platform selection.
• Use field telemetry, sizing data, and customer feedback to guide continuous improvements.

Go-to-Market & Launch Ownership

• Work with Marketing to develop product messaging, competitive content, launch materials, and sales enablement collateral.
• Provide training, competitive analysis, and sales tools to Sales and Channel teams.
• Support major product launches, release communications, and public announcements.

Required Qualifications

• 5–10+ years of product management experience in tape libraries, enterprise storage, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or workflow automation.
• Strong understanding of tape library architectures, robotics, magazines, and automation at scale.
• Technical proficiency with iLayer, REST API, and SCSI interfaces, iSCSI bridges, access controls, encryption management and protocols, and monitoring and event detection.
• Proven ability to gather customer requirements and convert them into actionable product plans.
• Experience working with software engineering teams through full product lifecycles.
• Excellent communication, executive-level presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Willing and able to come into our office in Centennial, CO at least 3x/week (Tuesday - Thursday 10am - 4pm core office hours).

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on knowledge of Scalar or tape library solutions
• Background in distributed system design, large-scale storage architectures, or cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with data protection, archiving, compliance, and security solutions
• Technical degree in CS, EE, or similar field (or equivalent engineering experience).
• Certifications in product management, tape, or storage technologies.

Soft Skills

• Strategic thinker with strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving ability.
• Customer-centric mindset with a passion for long-term data management, protection, and resiliency.
• Ability to lead through influence and work cross-functionally across technical and business teams.
• Experience engaging with executives, architects, customers, and engineering teams.

Quantum provides a diverse portfolio of health plans for medical and prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental medical insurance options. We also support our team members’ efforts to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle through reimbursement and educational programs. We also have an Employee Stock Purchase Program for purchasing Quantum stock at a discounted rate.

Anticipated Salary Range: $120,000-160,000 for qualified applicants.

The above pay range represents Quantum's good faith and reasonable estimate of possible compensation at the time of posting. Pay within the range will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, relevant experience, knowledge/education, skills/abilities, internal equity, and budgetary considerations.

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