Principal Product Manager – Roadmap

September 28, 2026

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Job Description:

Serve as roadmap lead for mainstream cloud customers
Represent customer needs, deployment realities, and adoption requirements in Seagate’s product and technology roadmap process
Understand customer deployment requirements, operational constraints, and adoption barriers for new HDD technologies
Help ensure successful introduction of new products and capabilities
Engage cloud infrastructure architects, storage teams, and technical decision makers
Understand workload requirements, storage architectures, operational challenges, and future infrastructure needs
Craft and communicate technically credible, strategically aligned roadmap narratives
Contribute roadmap and portfolio technical content for mainstream cloud customers
Guide alignment with the China segment team
Partner cross-functionally with Product Roadmap, Technical Marketing, Product Marketing, Engineering, Operations, Sales, Finance, Customer Success, and CTO/Architecture
Define customer capability objectives and next actions
Assess customer requirements, identify opportunities, and influence roadmap priorities using storage and cloud infrastructure expertise

Requirements:

Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, storage architectures, and HDD deployment environments
Ability to engage with infrastructure architects, storage engineers, and technical decision makers
Ability to translate technical requirements into business and roadmap recommendations
Strong problem-solving skills
Ability to connect customer requirements, market needs, and technical inputs into roadmap recommendations
Comfortable working across Product Roadmap, Technical Marketing, Product Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and regional segment teams
Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, storage, data center technologies, product management, technical marketing, or related technical leadership roles
Experience deploying, operating, supporting, or architecting storage solutions in cloud, hyperscale, enterprise, or data center environments
Strong understanding of HDD technologies and interaction between storage devices, system software, and cloud infrastructure architectures
Experience working directly with cloud providers, hyperscalers, infrastructure operators, or storage architects
Demonstrated ability to influence technical and business decisions through customer engagement, technical expertise, and strategic problem solving

Benefits:

Eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
Short- and long-term disability
401(k)
Employee stock purchase plan
Health savings account
Dependent care and healthcare spending accounts
12 holidays
Flexible time off pursuant to Seagate policy
Minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Remote work may be considered for eligible states

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