Function
Product ManagementOur CompanyWe’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
Job descriptionWhat 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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We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectivesHitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after youWe help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
Skills Required
- 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)
- Experience defining APIs as a product, including requirements for RESTful APIs and/or gRPC
- Working knowledge of data protection, replication, availability, and disaster recovery concepts
- Ability to engage deeply with engineering teams on architecture and tradeoffs
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
What We Do
Since its founding in 1910, Hitachi has responded to the expectations of society and its customers through technology and innovation. Our mission is to “Contribute to society through the development of superior, original technology and products.” Over the past 100+ years this commitment has led us to work towards creating a more sustainable society through our “Social Innovation Business”. We work to apply our expertise in information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and a wide variety of products to advance social infrastructure systems and improve quality of life across the world.
