Principal Product Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Drives next generation of private cloud solutions for emerging AI and non-AI workloads, leveraging cutting-edge technologies.
• Creates the vision and strategy to deliver innovative capabilities that delight HPE customers and grow HPE private cloud business.
• Identifies new business opportunities, understands market, customer and competitive trends for private cloud.
• 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.
• 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 product value chain partners to optimize margins and enable success of products across the lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of work experience in related field.
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the Private Cloud industry.
• Extensive team skills and ability to cross functionally influence work through others.
• Ability to mentor and lead teams on complex, ambiguous projects.
• Skills in cost-efficient solution building, financial performance metrics creation and analysis.
• Strong business acumen, root cause analysis, and problem detection skills.
• Technical understanding of the relevant industry and ability to provide product-specific technical training.

Nice to Have

• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field.
• MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Health & Wellbeing: comprehensive suite of benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development: programs to help reach career goals and apply skills across divisions.
• Unconditional Inclusion: flexible, inclusive work environment valuing individual uniqueness and diversity.