Director of Data Center SSD Product Management - 2244

KIOXIA Americas, Inc. is seeking a Director of Data Center SSD Product Management to lead strategy, product lifecycle execution, and business growth for next-generation enterprise and hyperscale SSD solutions. This leader will define product vision, drive cross-functional execution, and work directly with customers, partners, and internal teams to deliver differentiated storage products for modern data center workloads including AI, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale enterprise storage.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in SSD/NAND technologies with strong commercial leadership, capable of translating market trends and customer needs into winning product strategies and revenue growth.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of product managers.
• Build strong partnerships across engineering, marketing, sales, operations, and support organizations to ensure successful product delivery.
• Provide product positioning, competitive intelligence, and technical content for marketing collateral and sales enablement.
• Champion the voice of the customer internally, ensuring product development aligns with real market needs.
• Drive alignment across global teams and foster a collaborative, execution-focused culture.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills
• Ability to influence internal teams and external C-suite stakeholders

Product Strategy & Lifecycle Management

• Serve as the product leader and subject matter expert for KIOXIA’s data center SSD portfolio.
• Define and execute product strategy, roadmap, and long-term technical vision for next-generation SSD solutions.
• Own the full product lifecycle from concept and requirements through development, launch, and end-of-life.
• Develop and maintain Landing zones and Market Requirements Documents (MRDs) that translate customer and market needs into product specifications.
• Analyze market trends, competitive offerings, and emerging workloads to define differentiated product features and positioning.
• Ensure product architectures align with evolving technologies including NVMe, PCIe, AI infrastructure, and hyperscale storage architectures.

Strategic Customer Engagement

• Cultivate strong relationships with strategic enterprise, hyperscale, and data center customers.
• Work closely with Biz dev, sales, and field engineering to support complex sales cycles and major design wins.
• Oversee pre-sales technical support activities, including RFIs, RFQs, technical evaluations, and specification gap analysis.
• Act as a senior escalation point for key customer engagements, ensuring successful deployment and customer satisfaction.
• Develop account-specific strategies to grow wallet share and expand technology adoption.

Market Development & Business Growth

• Develop and execute a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for the SSD product portfolio.
• Identify and drive new market opportunities, expanding presence across hyperscale, cloud, and data center segments.
• Lead strategic engagements with hyperscalers and data center customers to identify growth opportunities and product requirements.
• Build and manage a robust pipeline of new business opportunities, translating market intelligence into actionable capture strategies.
• Personally participate in strategic customer pursuits and executive briefings, leveraging deep product expertise to build credibility with senior decision-makers.
• Represent KIOXIA as a thought leader at industry conferences, customer events, and analyst engagements.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or related field required
• MBA or advanced technical degree preferred

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in storage, SSD, NAND flash, or related data center infrastructure technologies
• 5+ years of product management or business leadership experience within enterprise storage, servers, or data center hardware markets
• Proven track record of successfully launching and scaling enterprise technology products

Technical Expertise

• Strong understanding of SSD architectures, NAND technologies, and storage system design
• Familiarity with NVMe infrastructure and server/storage ecosystems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, NAS/SAN/object storage systems
• Ability to translate complex technical trends into clear product strategies and differentiated features

Additional

• Ability to manage multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously
• Willingness to travel approximately 25% (domestic and international)

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The expected salary for this position is $194,270.00 - $323,780.00.

At KIOXIA, we value the following:

• Investment in you
  • Offering opportunities for career growth and personal development training
• Open-minded management
  • Empowering employees by listening and responding to ideas, issues, and approaches
• Flexible work-life balance
  • Offering a generous PTO allotment, holiday shutdown, and flexible work options
• Diversity of cultures, perspectives, backgrounds and experiences of all our team members
  • Through our diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, our focus is to strengthen our company culture to create more inclusion and belonging for all
• Benefits for our team members
  • Excellent medical and non-medical benefits, 401(k) matching, pet insurance

KIOXIA America, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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