Principal Technical Product Manager
Core
Define and drive technical development of next-generation data center SSDs, translating customer requirements into specifications for OEM, cloud, and government markets.
Role type
Principal Technical Product Manager (Storage/SSD)
Builds
Data center SSDs for OEM servers, storage, public cloud providers, GPU providers, and Fed/Gov segments
Domain
Semiconductor industry, Data Center Storage, SSD technology
Required skills
NVMe interface, NAND, ASIC, DRAM, firmware, hardware, validation, standards, requirements engineering, competitive analysis, technical writing, cross-functional collaboration, business acumen, travel
Preferred skills
OEM/hyperscale customer-facing experience, OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD specification knowledge, product life-cycle management processes
Technologies
NVMe, PCIe, OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD specification, LLM-based AI tools
Responsibilities
Serve as voice of customer for product development, own customer-driven requirements documents, perform spec gap and competitive analysis, work with engineering to define solutions and trade-offs, track emerging SSD features and trends, build relationships with customer engineering teams, present at technical stage gate reviews, support engagements with OEMs and hyperscalers, ensure SSD needs in PLM planning, maintain product data in requirements tools, plan and run small projects, resolve customer technical issues, share knowledge with team members, apply AI tools to scale requirements analysis
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship
