Principal Product Manager – Roadmap

Job Description:

  • Serve as roadmap lead for mainstream cloud customers
  • Represent customer needs, deployment realities, and adoption requirements in Seagate’s product and technology roadmap process
  • Understand customer deployment requirements, operational constraints, and adoption barriers for new HDD technologies
  • Help ensure successful introduction of new products and capabilities
  • Engage cloud infrastructure architects, storage teams, and technical decision makers
  • Understand workload requirements, storage architectures, operational challenges, and future infrastructure needs
  • Craft and communicate technically credible, strategically aligned roadmap narratives
  • Contribute roadmap and portfolio technical content for mainstream cloud customers
  • Guide alignment with the China segment team
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product Roadmap, Technical Marketing, Product Marketing, Engineering, Operations, Sales, Finance, Customer Success, and CTO/Architecture
  • Define customer capability objectives and next actions
  • Assess customer requirements, identify opportunities, and influence roadmap priorities using storage and cloud infrastructure expertise

Requirements:

  • Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, storage architectures, and HDD deployment environments
  • Ability to engage with infrastructure architects, storage engineers, and technical decision makers
  • Ability to translate technical requirements into business and roadmap recommendations
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Ability to connect customer requirements, market needs, and technical inputs into roadmap recommendations
  • Comfortable working across Product Roadmap, Technical Marketing, Product Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and regional segment teams
  • Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, storage, data center technologies, product management, technical marketing, or related technical leadership roles
  • Experience deploying, operating, supporting, or architecting storage solutions in cloud, hyperscale, enterprise, or data center environments
  • Strong understanding of HDD technologies and interaction between storage devices, system software, and cloud infrastructure architectures
  • Experience working directly with cloud providers, hyperscalers, infrastructure operators, or storage architects
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical and business decisions through customer engagement, technical expertise, and strategic problem solving

Benefits:

  • Eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • 401(k)
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Health savings account
  • Dependent care and healthcare spending accounts
  • 12 holidays
  • Flexible time off pursuant to Seagate policy
  • Minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Remote work may be considered for eligible states
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