Product Line Manager, Session Smart Router (SSR)

Product Line Manager, Session Smart Router (SSR)    This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: Position Summary Open to candidates located anywhere in the United States, with a preference for candidates near Westford, Massachusetts and/or a major airport. Occasional travel may be required. HPE Networking is seeking a Product Line Manager to help drive the Session Smart Router (SSR) portfolio. In this highly technical individual contributor role, you will partner with product, engineering, field, and customer-facing teams to help shape product strategy, roadmap priorities, releases, and the overall customer experience. You will translate customer and market requirements into clear product priorities while helping ensure SSR solutions are deployable, supportable, secure, and well documented. The ideal candidate combines strong networking and SD-WAN knowledge with product management experience and the ability to work effectively across technical, business, and customer-facing teams. Key Responsibilities • Help define and execute the SSR product roadmap across software, management, and hardware platforms. • Partner with engineering, QA, and program management to establish release priorities, manage dependencies, and communicate product commitments. • Translate customer, field, and market requirements into clear product requirements and priorities. • Support strategic customer engagements, technical discussions, and product escalations. • Partner with engineering, security, support, and other stakeholders on product security, compliance, and customer communications. • Support requirements for federal and regulated markets, including applicable security, certification, and compliance initiatives. • Drive improvements to deployment, upgrade, sizing, and product documentation across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. • Partner with engineering and hardware product teams on platform requirements, performance, scale, lifecycle, and capacity planning. • Support product lifecycle activities including pricing, licensing, SKU management, offer transitions, and field readiness. • Develop product positioning and technical enablement for sales, solution engineers, partners, and customers. • Use AI and other productivity tools responsibly to improve product requirements, documentation, research, and operational efficiency. Education and Experience Required • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • 8+ years of experience in enterprise or service-provider networking. • 5+ years of experience in product management, technical marketing, solutions architecture, engineering, or a related technical role. • Strong knowledge of routing and networking technologies such as BGP, OSPF, segmentation, high availability, QoS, IPsec, and NAT. • Experience with SD-WAN, network security, or related networking technologies. • Experience working acros