Sr. Director, Agentic Product Management

Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Job Summary This role leads the adoption of AI-native workflows and agentic systems across product management, design, engineering, and the operating rhythm that surrounds them, translating enterprise AI strategy into the programs, capabilities, and practices that product and engineering teams use day to day. Change management is the central craft of the role: leading adoption motions inside the CPO organization and partnering across GTM, security, and compliance to ensure AI-native workflows land cleanly at every touchpoint. Through AI adoption, the role delivers 2-3× productivity gains across the lifecycle and 33-50% lift in engineering velocity, product throughput, and revenue efficiency. This work spans AI-assisted product discovery and prioritization, design and specification, code generation and review, test and documentation automation, and NPI readiness. This leader will drive and define the lifecycle-scoped governance and cost-control practices that make adoption defensible: acceptable use, model approval, cost metering and chargeback, and the risk posture for agentic systems. Key Responsibilities * Define and lead the framework, success criteria, operating plan, and roadmap for the agentic AI and AI-native capabilities that the CPO organization will build and adopt - including prioritization, sequencing, and translation of enterprise AI strategy into executable workstreams across product discovery, design, engineering, operations, and NPI. * Lead a team to reimagine the product and engineering operating system with AI - applying AI-native decision support to roadmap prioritization, budget and resource allocation, portfolio management, and the rhythm of the business. * Drive AI adoption and change management inside the CPO organization - enablement, ways-of-working evolution, and the cross-functional partnership with GTM, security, and compliance. * Own the AI-driven workflow strategy across the product development lifecycle, defining how AI assistants and agents are introduced, scaled, and retired across PM, design, engineering, and operations teams. * Provide vision and direction to direct team and cross-functional stakeholders, translating strategy into multi-functional objectives. * Lead the AI agent program across the lifecycle - defining success metrics and criteria for agents spanning discovery, design, code review, test, documentation, planning, and NPI. * Identify, prototype, and launch high-impact AI use cases that demonstrate measurable productivity and financial impact across the lifecycle. * Define the platform strategy for internal AI capabilities so product teams consume shared, paved-road infrastructure rather than building bespoke AI plumbing. * Establish metering, chargeback, and optimization standards that keep AI costs sustainable across product and engineering workloads. * Shape the longer-horizon operating model for an agent-augmented product organization as autonomous agents take on a greater scope of work. Education and Experience * 10+ years of strategic and people leadership experience across product management, digital transformation, or engineering-adjacent roles, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end transformation programs from strategy through adoption and measurable impact. * Proven success leading and implementing strategic AI or digital adoption at scale, including redesign of operating models, workflows, and governance—not just tool deployment. Experience may come from top-tier consulting practices, internal AI or platform teams at scaled technology companies, or senior operating roles at AI‑first startups. * Hands-on fluency with modern AI and agent tooling, including LLMs, coding assistants, and agent or orchestration frameworks, with the ability to make credible technical and architectural judgments. * Strong change management and stakeholder leadership skills, with experience partnering across product, engineering, GTM, security, legal, and compliance to land AI-native workflows responsibly. * Demonstrated ability to operate in high-ambiguity environments, define problems and success criteria, and drive alignment among senior leaders as evidence and direction evolve; strong experience leading change management initiatives. * Exceptional leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams and drive accountability. Compensation: The target salary range for this position is 266,050 - 396,000 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU's), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.