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Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks ­- can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

Senior Technical Product Manager (P5)

VSP 360 - Data Protection & Orchestration

The Team

The VSP 360 team is building Hitachi Vantara's next-generation hybrid cloud control plane for enterprise storage environments. VSP 360 unifies observability, orchestration, and intelligent data services to simplify operations across block, file, object, and software-defined storage platforms.

Our mission is to deliver a scalable, policy-driven platform that enables enterprises to manage performance, availability, and data resilience across hybrid environments. The team collaborates closely with engineering, UX, architecture, field teams, and strategic customers to deliver integrated capabilities that modernize storage operations and enable SLA-driven infrastructure outcomes.

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The Role

As a Senior Technical Product Manager for Protection and Orchestration within VSP 360, you will lead the strategy and delivery of enterprise-grade data protection and workflow automation capabilities across hybrid storage environments.

This role owns the architecture and roadmap for policy-based protection services including snapshots, clones, replication, and disaster recovery orchestration. You will define how these capabilities are delivered through workflow-driven automation that simplifies operational complexity and enables consistent recovery outcomes across block, file, object, and SDS platforms.

You will partner closely with engineering and architecture teams to translate protection strategies into scalable platform capabilities, while ensuring integrations across ecosystem tools, APIs, and automation frameworks.

Your work will help customers improve RTO/RPO outcomes, minimize operational overhead, and unify protection workflows within a modern hybrid infrastructure control plane.

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Key Responsibilities
. Own the protection and orchestration roadmap for VSP 360 across hybrid deployments
. Define architectural use cases for:
. Snapshot and clone lifecycle management
. Synchronous replication for metro/high-availability scenarios
. Asynchronous replication for disaster recovery
. Multi-site protection and recovery workflows
. Drive the design of policy-based protection workflows across block, file, object, and SDS platforms
. Define SLA-driven recovery outcomes aligned with RTO, RPO, and availability objectives
. Partner with engineering and architecture teams to define scalable protection frameworks and copy data management models
. Lead ecosystem integrations with:
. VMware, Kubernetes, and application platforms
. Backup and recovery ecosystems
. Automation frameworks and infrastructure-as-code tools
. Ensure protection capabilities are API-first and automation-ready
. Translate complex infrastructure workflows into intuitive product experiences
. Conduct competitive analysis across enterprise data protection platforms
. Maintain product strategy, roadmaps, and requirements in Aha! and Jira
. Engage with customers, field teams, and partners to validate use cases and drive adoption

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What You'll Bring
. 10-12+ years of Product Management experience in storage, data protection, infrastructure platforms, or cloud management software
. Deep expertise in:
. Snapshot, clone, and copy data management technologies
. Synchronous and asynchronous replication architectures
. Disaster recovery and cyber-resilient recovery patterns
. Strong understanding of RTO/RPO design principles and protection SLAs
. Experience delivering automation and orchestration for infrastructure workflows
. Familiarity with enterprise workloads including VMware, databases, and containerized environments
. Experience designing API-driven and plugin-based platform capabilities
. Strong architectural mindset and ability to partner closely with engineering teams
. Experience working in Agile environments with tools such as Aha!, Jira, and roadmap frameworks
. Ability to translate complex infrastructure capabilities into clear customer value
. Strong communication skills across technical, executive, and customer stakeholders
. Strategic mindset with awareness of market trends and competitive landscape

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Impact

This role will:
. Establish VSP 360 as a modern enterprise protection and orchestration platform
. Drive scalable protection workflows across hybrid environments
. Improve customer recovery outcomes and operational resilience
. Enable automation-driven infrastructure operations
. Strengthen ecosystem integrations and platform extensibility

About us

We're a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.