Senior Principal Product Manager – VME (Services & Strategic Customer Engagement)

Senior Principal Product Manager – VME (Services & Strategic Customer Engagement)

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

Product Services, Strategic Customer engagement

The Product Manager for VME Services is responsible for defining, evolving, and scaling VME service offerings while increasing the team’s bandwidth to effectively respond to customer and sales escalations. This role serves as a key product point of contact for strategic customers, working closely with sales, customer success, support, and engineering to address critical issues, shape service requirements, and ensure customer needs are reflected in the product roadmap. The PM translates real-world usage, escalation learnings, and strategic customer feedback into actionable service improvements that drive reliability, adoption, and long-term customer value.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions have substantial technical impact on a significant HPE product/project, or a strategic/architectural direction. Go-to creator and innovator for critical business challenges and opportunities. Substantial, unique contributions provide long-lasting, recurring benefits like time-to-market improvements, cost reductions, or satisfying future and current unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology areas. Provides technical leadership to the business for significant project/program work. Leads and connects others across functions to unite around a common goal. Actively mentors others and contributes to the HPE technical community.

Responsibilities:

• Independently leads and drives the end-to-end product strategy and operational product roadmap for many complex products or product portfolios.
• Create and articulates the value proposition, target customer segments and business cases, to bring innovative and disruptive products to market for multiple product portfolios with respect to the whole company product portfolio (i.e. Product configuration mix, Revenue/Margins, financials, market share).
• Synthesizes market requirements (MRD) into marketing/customer details through having intimate customer knowledge and business, financial, and industry market acumen.
• Actively engages across verticals or customer segment engagements.
• Drive innovative and futuristic approaches based on external market insights and feedback.
• Builds products from ideation to launch.
• Recommends and influences key stakeholders with data driven analysis on strategic priorities throughout all phases of the product lifecycle, encompassing planning, development, launch, management, and exit strategies.
• Creates and drives goal alignment and collaborates across one or more products' value chain partners to optimize margins and enable success of products per plans across the product lifecycle. (i.e. Engineering: product development; Supply Chain: SKUs, inventory; and Marketing: marketing and pricing strategies and Go to Market Plan and drives adoption).
• Acts as a leader, providing guidance and mentoring to less-experienced team members and influences them to build effective requirements and roadmaps.

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, or related field of study; MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.
• 10+ years of work experience in related field
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry.
• Translation of technical requirements/functions into business value for the customer.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Extensive team skills and ability to cross functionally drive/influence work through others.
• Ability to mentor and lead teams to achieve results for complex, ambiguous projects.
• Works cross-functionally to align with Go to Market, operations, and other functions.
• Extensive skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis
• Extensive business acumen and knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection.
• Communicates effectively and can tailor message to various audiences.
• Ability to engage with analysts and industry experts.
• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and can provide product specific technical training to the team.

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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

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_06

    

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 169,500 - 322,500 in Colorado // 161,500 - 370,500 in Texas
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

The estimated job application period closure is March 30 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

   

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