DDN is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead strategic product areas for EXAScaler. This role shapes product direction, drives cross-team alignment, and represents the product with senior customers and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
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Define and drive the multi-release strategy and roadmap for major EXAScaler product domains.
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Translate strategy into prioritized, outcome-driven roadmaps, clear PRDs, and detailed user stories with measurable success criteria.
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Partner with engineering leadership to make architecture, investment, and sequencing decisions, balancing innovation with reliability and technical debt reduction.
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Act as a senior product voice with customers and partners, including executive briefings, roadmap deep dives, and joint solution planning for large-scale AI and HPC deployments.
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Shape competitive strategy for EXAScaler in AI and high-performance data infrastructure, including pricing and packaging input, win/loss analysis, and market differentiation.
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Use data (product analytics, customer feedback, and financial performance) to drive portfolio-level decisions and product investment trade-offs.
Qualifications
Must Have
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12+ years of product management experience in infrastructure, data platforms, storage, HPC environments, or cloud services.
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Proven track record of delivering production features at scale, from definition through launch and iteration.
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Demonstrated ability to write concise PRDs and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and measurable success metrics.
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Experience working closely with sales teams, solutions architects, and customers on proof-of-concepts, roadmap discussions, and product escalations.
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Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across both technical and non-technical audiences.
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
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Experience with data infrastructure supporting AI workloads, including training and inference pipelines or large-scale unstructured data environments.
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Familiarity with parallel file systems and high-performance storage architectures.
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Background in cloud-native architectures including microservices, containers, observability frameworks, and APIs.
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Strong technical depth in at least one of the following:
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Distributed storage or parallel file systems (Lustre, object, file, block, or key-value storage)
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Cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) or Kubernetes-based environments
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Prior experience working in a B2B enterprise infrastructure company or high-growth technology environment.
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