Product Manager, Data Center Value SSDs

Posted:
5/19/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Texas, United States ⋅ Boise, Idaho, United States ⋅ Austin, Texas, United States ⋅ Idaho, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Product

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

For more than 45 years, Micron Technology, Inc. has redefined innovation with the world’s most advanced memory and semiconductor technologies. We’re an international team of innovators and scientists, developing groundbreaking technologies that are redefining how the world uses information to enrich life.

Our team vision is a continuing desire to develop your skills working in an inclusive diverse environment of multicultural Teams across worldwide geographies! Enabling the creative career path you deserve with a collaborative environment, and groundbreaking technology while rapidly growing your abilities.

This role can be located in Longmont, CO or Austin, TX.

 

As a Micron Storage Business Unit (SBU) Product Manager within the data center SSD product management team, you’ll get the unique opportunity to lead and manage products in one of the fastest-growing segments of the industry in one of the most exciting eras of semiconductor development.

You’ll work cross-functionally with sales, engineering, finance, marketing, and operations to define, shape, and scale the data center storage solutions that are powering customer AI applications and enabling improved sustainability, scalability, and affordability.

You will become the voice of the market’s needs and turn customer insights into action by translating them into new and differentiated products that you bring to market and then manage across the product lifecycle.

This influential role requires system thinking and the ability to simultaneously lead cross-functional teams, build business plans, distill insights from complex data sets, forecast market needs, navigate ambiguity, prioritize features/tradeoffs, analyze financials, and interact closely with customers as you co-design future possibilities with them.

This role also requires strong decision-making skills, humility, and a passion for how the storage and use of the world’s data will shape the future.    

Responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Own, manage, and lead Micron data center SSD products with P&L responsibility
  • Help define Micron’s long-term roadmap for data center SSDs, services, and solution offerings
  • Be the voice of the customer internally and externally: start with the customer and work backwards by building and nurturing deep customer relationships
  • Be the voice of your product in customer meetings and throughout the industry
  • Understand current & future data center SSD features and trends. Evaluate which features make sense for Micron to pursue based on financial viability, technical feasibility, and customer use cases
  • Produce the financial models and businesses cases that support your product’s inclusion on the Micron data center SSD roadmap
  • Bring future products to life by pitching ideas to Micron executives to secure funding
  • Analyze the competitive landscape and position your products for segment success
  • Create go-to-market plans and help cross-functional teams execute them successfully
  • Train sales and business development how to sell your product and collaborate with them to get/win customer quals and forecast for your business
  • Align and coordinate strategies across Micron’s product, service, and sales divisions
  • Onboard new customers as they complete qualifications
  • Create and refine product plans in alignment with engineering and resolve technical issues
  • Manage all product details and data for your products: be the voice of truth
  • Work with customer support as needed to resolve customer issues
  • Establish a clear demand profile for your products that encompasses a deep understanding of your segment’s TAM, SAM, and SOM by customer
  • Collaborate with Technical Product Managers on market requirement documents that translate business, customer, and technical needs into clear features and benefits that engineering can build to

Qualifications and skills include, but are not limited to:

  • Ability to grasp complex financial, technical, and marketing information to develop SSD product plans and strategies in the data center segment
  • Ability to translate highly complex technical & marketing information into simple and actionable SSD product plans that team members from different functions can effectively act upon
  • Strong communication and presentation skills that have already been honed in front of customers and executives
  • Demonstrated business acumen, critical thinking, technical aptitude, and data organization skills
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams, winning trust, and working across multiple locations
  • Fluent in prioritization, analytics, pattern recognition, navigating ambiguity/uncertainty, and curiosity
  • Ability to think generationally: understand how today’s needs impact and influence tomorrow’s requirements as the industry landscape constantly changes
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally
  • Bachelor’s degree required in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field. MBA or Master’s Degree preferred with experience in product development, marketing, sales, or operations in the storage industry or technology-related field

What Sets You Apart

  • Experience and familiarity with several common data center SSD end customer workloads: cloud storage, software-defined storage, capacity and caching tiers, block/object stores, SQL/NoSQL databases, AI/ML, analytics, content delivery, caching, journaling, booting, etc
  • Experience and familiarity with storage technical sub-domains: hard drives, SSDs, NAND, ASICs, DRAM, interfaces, protocols, features, standards, hardware, firmware, software, validation, manufacturing

As a world leader in the semiconductor industry, Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future.  We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget.  Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave.  Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays.  For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.

Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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Micron Technology

Website: https://micron.com/

Headquarter Location: Boise, Idaho, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1978

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity

Industries: Computer ⋅ Hardware ⋅ Manufacturing ⋅ Semiconductor