Head of Security Product Management

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.

Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

The Director of Product Management for AI & Open Source Data Platforms will lead the vision, strategy, and execution of products that sit at the intersection of enterprise AI, cloud scale data infrastructure, and open source ecosystems. This role is responsible for building differentiated, trustworthy, and scalable platforms that enable customers to manage, govern, and operationalize data for modern analytics and AI workloads across hybrid and multi cloud environments.

Define and own the product strategy and multi year roadmap for AI enabled data platforms, with a strong emphasis on open source data infrastructure (e.g., distributed storage, data orchestration, streaming, search, and metadata systems).

Identify and articulate how NetApp grade enterprise capabilities—security, governance, performance, reliability—differentiate open source based solutions in production AI and analytics environments.

Align product strategy with company objectives, market trends, and customer transformation initiatives across data modernization and AI adoption.

AI & Platform Leadership

Drive the integration of generative AI and agentic capabilities into data infrastructure products, enabling use cases such as intelligent data management, autonomous operations, and AI assisted user experiences.

Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to shape platform capabilities including:

Data ingestion and pipelines for AI workloads

Policy driven governance, data lineage, and compliance

Define NetApp’s open source data infrastructure product strategy, including decisions around build vs. community collaboration.

Work closely with open source communities, foundations, and partners to influence roadmaps while maintaining healthy upstream engagement.

Establish clear product and business models around open source software, including subscriptions, managed services, and enterprise extensions.

Partner with sales, marketing, and alliances to define positioning, packaging, pricing, and launch strategies for AI and data platform offerings.

Engage directly with strategic customers, field teams, and partners to validate direction, gather feedback, and accelerate adoption.

Build, manage, and mentor a high performing team of product managers across platform, AI, and open source domains.

Set a high bar for product craftsmanship, including customer discovery, roadmap rigor, outcome based metrics, and clear product narratives.

12–18 years of experience in product management, with 5+ years in people leadership roles, preferably in enterprise software, cloud platforms, or data infrastructure.

• Strong track record of delivering platform scale products used by developers, data engineers, and enterprise customers.
• Deep understanding of open source data technologies and ecosystems, and experience commercializing or productizing open source software.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business and customer value.

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or Information Systems.

MBA or master’s degree strongly preferred.

The target salary range for this position is $228,000 - $340,000. 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. 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.

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.

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.

We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection.