Principal Product Manager, Systems FlashBlade

Santa Clara · USD 198,000-297,000 / year · Onsite · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

The Principal Product Manager for FlashBlade Systems will establish the multi-year architectural strategy, hardware roadmap, and market expansion vision for the company's flagship scale-out platform.
This role involves partnering with C-suite executives, Engineering, and Supply Chain teams to define next-generation technologies for high-performance and AI workloads.

Formulate and champion the overarching hardware vision for the FlashBlade portfolio.
Align future platform architecture with market demands in AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Oversee end-to-end hardware portfolio decisions from conceptual design through commercial growth and end-of-life transitions.
Serve as the authoritative voice for FlashBlade hardware strategy across executive advisory boards and steering committees.
Analyze market dynamics, supply chain constraints, and platform margin signals to make performance, cost, and reliability trade-offs.
Partner with Subsystems and Platform Engineering teams to integrate emerging fabrics, networking, and media components.

Expertise in driving enterprise infrastructure product strategy and establishing long-term product roadmaps.
Proven capability managing large-scale hardware platform portfolios across all phases of the product life cycle.
Experience balancing unit economics, supply chains, and market delivery.
Exceptional leadership and communication skills with a track record of negotiating with C-level leaders.
Technical mastery of scale-out storage systems, high-performance computing architectures, and data center hardware co-design.
Understanding of modern cloud deployment models.