Manager, Product Management — Hitachi IQ and AI solutions

Function

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.

The Role

Hitachi Vantara is looking for a Manager of Product Management to own the product strategy for our data-and-AI portfolio: Hitachi iQ (our AI infrastructure and AI Factory hardware/software platform. This is a high-visibility role reporting into product leadership, responsible for translating enterprise AI and unstructured-data trends into a coherent, sellable, and defensible product line.

You'll own the roadmap end to end — from architecture and build decisions through GTM readiness, competitive positioning, and partner/field enablement — for a portfolio that sits at the center of Hitachi Vantara's AI strategy. You'll work cross-functionally across engineering, cross Hitachi BUs, sales, and partner teams under our "One Hitachi" model, and you'll be a primary voice in executive and partner-facing forums articulating where the AI infrastructure and data-foundation story is headed.

What you'll be doing

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and business case for Hitachi iQ (AI infrastructure and AI Factory platform)
• Drive NVIDIA and broader ecosystem certification strategy (e.g., NCS, AIDP, STX, CMX-class programs) to keep Hitachi iQ competitively positioned against AI infrastructure alternatives
• Build and defend competitive positioning against AI infrastructure, storage, and data-platform competitors, translating technical differentiation into field- and partner-ready messaging
• Define and prioritize AI use cases (RAG, fine-tuning, inferencing, agentic workflows) that the platform must support, and work with engineering to ensure the underlying storage and infrastructure layers are built to support them
• Act as executive spokesperson for the portfolio in partner councils, technical advisory forums, customer briefings, and internal strategy reviews
• Build the business case for pricing, packaging, and lifecycle decisions across the portfolio, including margin and cost-structure tradeoffs
• Lead and mentor a team of product managers covering distinct areas of the portfolio setting a consistent strategic bar across the team
• Partner with product marketing to shape launch strategy, sales plays, and analyst/press narrative for major releases

What you'll bring

• 10+ years of product management experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, or AI/ML platforms, with demonstrated ownership of a multi-product portfolio
• Direct experience with AI infrastructure concepts — GPU/accelerator platforms, inferencing, RAG architectures, model orchestration — and the storage/data layer that supports them
• Working knowledge of distributed file systems and enterprise storage architecture (block, file, object)
• Track record of translating technical roadmap decisions into competitive positioning and field-ready narrative for a technical partner and customer audience
• Experience building and leading a product management team, with strong cross-functional influence across engineering, marketing, and sales/partner organizations
• Executive presence and comfort representing the roadmap in high-visibility, live settings — customer briefings, partner advisory councils, technical panels
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent experience; MBA a plus
• Experience with NVIDIA or hyperscaler-adjacent ecosystem certification/partnership programs a plus

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $175K to $250K. Expected on-target earnings: $205K to $295K

The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara’s bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.

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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.

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.

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.