Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Seagate Technology develops storage technologies that support the world’s data infrastructure. The Principal Product Manager will lead the roadmap function for mainstream cloud customers, aligning customer infrastructure requirements, product capabilities, and roadmap priorities. The role engages cloud customers, shapes product direction, and collaborates cross-functionally to influence technology roadmap execution and adoption.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the roadmap lead for mainstream cloud customers, representing customer needs, deployment realities, and adoption requirements within Seagate's product and technology roadmap process
- Work closely with customers to understand deployment requirements, operational constraints, and adoption barriers for new HDD technologies, helping ensure successful introduction of new products and capabilities
- Engage directly with cloud infrastructure architects, storage teams, and technical decision makers to understand workload requirements, storage architectures, operational challenges, and future infrastructure needs
- Craft and communicate roadmap narratives that connect Seagate's technology investments to customer outcomes, ensuring content is technically credible, strategically aligned, and relevant to the audience
- Contribute to roadmap and portfolio technical content for mainstream cloud customers and guide alignment with the China segment team
- Partner with Product Roadmap, Technical Marketing, Product Marketing, Engineering, Operations, Sales, Finance, Customer Success, and CTO/Architecture to support roadmap execution and customer alignment
- Help define customer capability objectives and next actions that align Seagate responses to customer needs
- Apply deep understanding of storage technologies, HDD deployment models, and cloud infrastructure environments to assess customer requirements, identify opportunities, and influence roadmap priorities
Skills
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, storage architectures, and the operational environments in which HDDs are deployed
- Able to engage credibly with infrastructure architects, storage engineers, and technical decision makers while translating technical requirements into business and roadmap recommendations
- Strong problem solver who seeks to understand underlying customer challenges and develop scalable solutions rather than simply advocating for individual feature requests
- Exercises sound judgment in customer-facing discussions, balancing transparency, roadmap positioning, and business objectives
- Able to connect customer requirements, market needs, and technical inputs into clear roadmap recommendations
- Comfortable working across Product Roadmap, Technical Marketing, Product Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and regional segment teams
- Strong collaborator who can support alignment across mainstream cloud and China segment needs
- Focused on creating clarity, consistency, and actionability in roadmap planning and customer-facing content
- 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 within cloud, hyperscale, enterprise, or data center environments
- Strong understanding of HDD technologies and the 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
- On-site preferred but will consider remote candidates
Benefits
- Eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k)
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Health savings account
- Dependent care spending accounts
- Healthcare spending accounts
- Paid time off, including 12 holidays
- Flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy
- A minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- On-site preferred but will consider remote candidates
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