Senior Principal, Product Manager - Data Center and AI Networking Hardware Architecture

Senior Principal, Product Manager - Data Center and AI Networking Hardware Architecture

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

Senior Principal, Product Manager - Data Center & AI Networking Hardware

Location (Hybrid): Sunnyvale, CA

HPE Networking is seeking a Senior Principal Product Manager to shape the hardware architecture and product direction of next-generation data center switching platforms, with a strong focus on networking for AI clusters and high-performance Ethernet fabrics. This person will translate technology choices into customer & NPI decisions and shape next-generation switching hardware platform direction.

This senior individual contributor will evaluate emerging technologies and competing architectures, translate customer and market requirements into product choices, and drive alignment across product management, engineering, operations, partners, and executive leadership. The role combines deep technical expertise with product judgment to turn complex trade-offs into clear portfolio, investment, and new product introduction (NPI) decisions. Leads and connects others across functions to unite around a common goal. Actively mentors others and contributes to the HPE technical community.

Responsibilities_:_

• Independently lead and drive the end-to-end product strategy and operational product roadmap for many complex products or product portfolios.
• Shape the multi-generation architecture and product direction for data center switching, including AI scale-up, scale-out, front-end, and data center interconnect networks.
• Define platform requirements across bandwidth, radix, topology, latency, congestion management, power, cooling, optics, cabling, form factor, and rack integration.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including switching silicon and SerDes, high-speed electrical interconnects, OSFP, LPO, LRO, XPO, NPO, CPO, silicon photonics, liquid cooling, power delivery, and rack-scale architectures.
• Lead fact-based trade-off analyses across customer value, performance, power, density, reliability, serviceability, manufacturability, cost, ecosystem readiness, supply availability, and time to market.
• Translate technical analyses into platform definitions, product requirements, business cases, investment priorities, and NPI recommendations, including when to adopt one a...

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