Principal Product Manager
Not Disclosed•Full-TimeOn-site
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About 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. 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 are a trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. Our culture celebrates mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership, providing the flexibility to balance professional ambition with personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.
About the Role
NetApp is hiring a Principal Product Leader to own the AI product strategy for Azure NetApp Files (ANF)—a first-party, fully managed enterprise file service on Microsoft Azure delivered in deep partnership between NetApp and Microsoft. In the spirit of NetApp's "business builder" cloud roles, you will translate a fast-moving AI landscape into differentiated platform capabilities, joint roadmap bets with Microsoft, and enterprise outcomes.
You will sit at the intersection of enterprise storage, Azure AI infrastructure, and industry AI workloads. Your mission is to ensure ANF is positioned and built as a strategic data foundation for training, inference, RAG, analytics, simulation, and agentic workflows. You will drive the vision without forcing customers to abandon enterprise file semantics, protection, or hybrid operating models. This role requires a highly strategic and deeply technical leader who can define multi-year AI roadmaps, turn emerging patterns like LLMs and vector retrieval into concrete product requirements, and balance hyperscaler co-development constraints with NetApp differentiation.
Why You'll Thrive
At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, and the bold ideas that turn good into great are how our people operate. We embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. Most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. We are looking for those ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment.
Equal Opportunity
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, genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.
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Skills, education and keywords
Skills: Azure, Azure Ai, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Kubernetes Service, Kubernetes, NFS, SMB, LLMS, Rag, Databricks.
Education: MBA or advanced degree in CS/Engineering (helpful, not required).
Frequently asked questions about Principal Product Manager at NetApp
What does a Principal Product Manager at NetApp do?expand_more
Day-to-day, the Principal Product Manager at NetApp will define multi-year ai vision and roadmap for azure netapp files in context of azure ai services and gpu estates; own end-to-end ai strategy including problem selection, success metrics, and competitive positioning; partner with microsoft teams to align anf ai story with azure-wide guidance and reference architectures; and lead cross-functional teams to ship capabilities and validate value with strategic customers.
What are the requirements for this Principal Product Manager role?expand_more
NetApp is looking for candidates who meet the following requirements: 10+ years product management in cloud infrastructure, enterprise storage, AI/ML infrastructure, or data platforms; Strong command of enterprise storage: NFS/SMB semantics, snapshots/clones, replication, backup integration patterns, capacity/performance tiers, and large-scale filesystem behavior; Hands-on familiarity with modern AI stacks: LLMs, RAG architectures, embeddings/vector retrieval patterns, training vs. inference IO profiles, orchestration, and enterprise AI data pipelines; and MBA or advanced degree in CS/Engineering (helpful, not a substitute for demonstrated technical depth).