About the Role
NetApp’s Cloud Storage & Services division seeks a Principal Product Manager to define and drive the strategy, architecture, and execution of generative and agentic AI platforms. This senior individual contributor role requires a recognized product leader with company-level strategic impact, deep technical credibility, and the ability to shape outcomes across multiple teams and stakeholders. You will set the multi-year vision for AI-powered services built on NetApp’s data infrastructure and serve as a thought leader for enterprise-grade agentic systems, LLM-based platforms, and AI-driven user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end AI strategy for ANF, including problem selection, success metrics, phased delivery, and competitive positioning.
- Prioritize investments across performance, scale, data services, protocol and API surfaces, and operational excellence for AI pipelines.
- Drive requirements for AI-centric scenarios such as training and inference data planes, RAG and enterprise search, agentic workflows, large multimodal and enterprise datasets, and analytics/simulation adjacencies.
- Partner with Microsoft teams across Azure AI/Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, AKS, GPU infrastructure, and data/analytics services.
- Align ANF’s AI story with Azure-wide AI data guidance and reference architectures.
- Lead across engineering, product marketing, sales, customer success, and professional services to ship capabilities and repeatable reference architectures.
- Engage strategic customers and design partners to validate pain points, quantify value, and de-risk roadmap bets.
- Monitor AI infrastructure trends and competitor moves to identify differentiated bets.
- Represent ANF as a credible technical executive in briefings, advisory councils, and industry forums.
- Tailor AI storage strategy for segments where file semantics and performance matter, including semiconductor/EDA, manufacturing, healthcare imaging, financial services, energy, media & entertainment, and HPC/simulation.
Requirements
- 15+ years of product management experience, including ownership of large-scale, enterprise-grade platforms or cloud services.
- Proven track record of defining and scaling AI-powered products.
- Hands-on experience in Generative AI and large language models.
- Hands-on experience in Agentic systems and autonomous workflows.
- Hands-on experience in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Hands-on experience in Model orchestration, evaluation, and lifecycle management.
- Hands-on experience in Enterprise data platforms, vector databases, search, and knowledge graphs.
- Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and deeply technical levels.
- History of influencing VP- and C-level stakeholders through clear product strategy, storytelling, and data-driven decision-making.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong business judgment, systems thinking, and comfort navigating ambiguity at scale.
Skills
- Generative AI
- Large language models
- Agentic systems
- Autonomous workflows
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Model orchestration
- Model evaluation
- Model lifecycle management
- Enterprise data platforms
- Vector databases
- Search
- Knowledge graphs
- Product strategy
- Technical communication
- Systems thinking
Experience Level
- 15+ years of product management experience
Education Level
- MBA or advanced degree in CS/Engineering
Salary/Compensations
- $228,000 - $325,000
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Retirement or Pension Plans
- Paid Time Off
- Various Leave options
- Performance-Based Incentives
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Restricted stocks (RSU’s)
About the Company
- NetApp’s Cloud Storage & Services division delivers industry-leading storage and data platforms for mission-critical enterprise workloads.
- Our portfolio spans cloud storage services, deep integrations with hyperscaler AI/ML ecosystems, and AI-native services.
- We enable Fortune 500 customers to operationalize data and AI across hybrid and public cloud environments.
