Hitachi Vantara Corporation

Core Storage Product Manager

Hitachi Vantara Corporation • $127K — $135K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Minnesota, US
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
  • 5+ years of experience in product management or technical product ownership, preferably in storage systems or cloud platforms.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise block storage concepts.
  • Familiarity with storage protocols and interfaces (e.g., SCSI, NVMe, iSCSI, Fibre Channel).
  • Experience owning or defining APIs as a product, including RESTful APIs and/or gRPC.
  • Working knowledge of data protection, replication, and disaster recovery concepts.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Own the product vision, roadmap, and lifecycle for core storage capabilities and APIs.
  • Define product requirements and success metrics for data path, management, and control plane capabilities.
  • Partner closely with engineering, product marketing, and sales teams to prioritize features and ensure timely releases.
  • Lead requirements and prioritization for storage services such as data protection and replication.
  • Act as the voice of the customer, integrating feedback into the product roadmap.
  • Drive API product strategy, ensuring alignment with ecosystem integration needs.
  • Evaluate market trends and emerging technologies to inform product direction.

Benefits

  • Collaborate in a cross-functional team environment.
  • Opportunities for professional growth in an innovative company.
  • Participation in bonus and variable pay programs where applicable.
Full Job Description
Function

Product Management

Job description

What You Will be Doing

Hitachi Vantara is seeking an experienced Product Manager to own and drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution of core storage products and APIs. This role focuses on delivering high-performance, scalable, and reliable data storage capabilities that solve real customer problems and support Hitachi's long-term platform vision.

Job Responsibilities
  • Own the product vision, roadmap, and lifecycle for core storage capabilities and APIs, aligning business objectives with customer needs and long-term platform strategy.
  • Define product requirements and success metrics for data path, management plane, and control plane capabilities, translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable requirements.
  • Partner closely with engineering, product marketing, and sales teams to prioritize features, make tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality releases on time.
  • Lead requirements and prioritization for storage services such as data protection, replication, deduplication, compression, tiering, and availability, ensuring they deliver measurable customer value.
  • Act as the voice of the customer, incorporating feedback from customers, field teams, support, and partners into the product backlog and roadmap.
  • Drive API product strategy, ensuring APIs are consistent, well-documented, easy to consume, and aligned with ecosystem and partner integration needs.
  • Collaborate with performance and architecture teams to set and validate product-level performance goals, such as latency, throughput, and scalability targets.
  • Evaluate market trends, competitive offerings, and emerging technologies in enterprise storage, cloud, and distributed systems to inform product direction.
  • Support go-to-market readiness by contributing to product positioning, technical collateral, feature documentation, and internal enablement.
  • Clearly communicate product plans, progress, and tradeoffs to stakeholders across engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership.


What You Will Bring to the Team
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 5+ years of experience in product management or technical product ownership, preferably in storage systems, infrastructure software, or cloud platforms.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise block storage concepts.
  • Familiarity with storage protocols and interfaces (e.g., SCSI, NVMe, iSCSI, Fibre Channel sufficient to make informed product and prioritization decisions.
  • Experience owning or defining APIs as a product, including requirements for RESTful APIs and/or gRPC, versioning, and lifecycle management.
  • Working knowledge of data protection, replication, availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
  • Ability to engage deeply with engineering teams on architecture and tradeoffs without being responsible for implementation.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments is a plus.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance customer impact, technical constraints, and business priorities.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence across functions.


As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $127K to $135K Expected on-target earnings: $144K to $153K

The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara's bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program's conditions and restrictions.

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Size
23,095 employees
Industry
Information Technology
Founded
2017
NASDAQ
HCHMY
* Ladders Estimates

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