Senior Director, Storage as a Service

Senior Director, Storage as a Service    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: Leads a strategic product management function responsible for defining, building, and bringing to market HPE’s Storage as a Service offering. Operates with broad ownership across product strategy, business model, product definition, market positioning, customer experience, and go-to-market execution. This leader will act with a general manager mindset, working across product management, engineering, marketing, sales, services, operations, customer success, finance, and other organizations to establish and scale a differentiated, outcomes-based storage service. The role requires the ability to move seamlessly from strategy and business considerations to technical product definition and execution. The Senior Director will help define the MVP and roadmap while driving an aggressive path to market. The role will initially lead a small, focused team while influencing resources and priorities across the broader Hybrid Cloud and HPE organizations. Responsibilities • Define and drive the end-to-end strategy for HPE’s Storage as a Service offering, including the product vision, value proposition, target customer outcomes, service levels, business model, MVP, roadmap, and path to market. • Lead the development of an outcomes-based storage consumption model designed around customer requirements, SLAs/SLOs, service levels, consumption, performance, and capacity rather than a traditional hardware-first approach. • Operate with a GM-style ownership mindset, driving the full product lifecycle across strategy, business definition, product management, technical requirements, cross-functional execution, market introduction, and ongoing evolution of the offering. • Define the initial minimum viable product and launch roadmap, balancing speed to market with the need to deliver a compelling and differentiated customer offering. • Partner closely with core storage product management and engineering teams to translate service requirements into underlying platform capabilities, including areas such as multi-tenancy, capacity expansion, non-disruptive technology transitions, performance management, and service-level flexibility. • Work across HPE to develop an integrated customer experience, partnering with GreenLake organizations and other teams on capabilities such as cloud management, metering, billing, financing, operational support, and service delivery. • Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, marketing, sales, go-to-market, customer and partner engagement, services, supply chain/operations, customer success, and financial services to establish the capabilities required to launch and scale the business. • Build and lead a focused product organization that initially includes product management and technical marketing engineering resources, while providing broader leadership and direction to program management and engineering resources supporting the St