Lenovo

Who You’ll Work With:

Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) is a high growth end-to-end IT infrastructure solutions delivery organization.  We empower businesses to accelerate their business growth and solve customers’ IT challenges.  A trusted partner every step of the way, we provide reliable infrastructure and support for datacenters, cloud, analytics and AI, As-A-Service, and Edge.  Lenovo ISG is leading the industry to transform the way businesses innovate and deliver next generation data center solutions.  Building on years of innovation, ISG is adding skills to the Lenovo Storage and Data Management team to expand the portfolio, deliver industry leadership, and create unique customer value.  Data management is one of the most dynamic industry segments and this position provides the opportunity to innovate and grow as Lenovo becomes a market leader.

What You’ll Do:

We are hiring a high energy individual to join the Lenovo WW Storage team as a Product Manager for software defined storage (SDS) solutions. This position will join an established team and lead definition and delivery of new SDS offerings.  This position will work closely with technology partners and multifunctional Lenovo teams to drive innovation, evangelize customer value, and lead solution enablement and positioning for SDS offerings.  The position will both own the solution definition and the enablement with the sales teams to maximize customer value.   This position is expected to drive new perspectives and thought leadership for Lenovo Storage.

The successful candidate will have enterprise storage and/or data management skills and experience in one of the following areas:  development, technical sales, support, and/or product management.  This position will work across teams to understand and deliver customer value with scale out storage solutions.   Success will require not only defining new solutions but evangelizing those solutions to Lenovo sellers, business partners and customers. 

Responsibilities will include:

• Develop deep understanding of the storage business and customer requirements
• Drive advanced functional requirements and improvements into product delivery

• Define, develop, and document end to end data management solutions
• Be a thought leader across functional and peer teams and alliance partners
• Work with internal teams and industry partners to develop and deliver workload based solutions
• Engage with customers and business partners to solution challenges
• Develop enablement for Lenovo Sellers and Business Partners

The Ideal candidate will possess the following experience:

• Bachelor Degree in a technical/computer or marketing related field
• At least 8 years of professional experience as a product manager or similar role
• At least 4 years of Storage or data management IT experience
• Knowledge of SDS or HCI architectures
• Proven analytical and business skills
• Proven experience in a multi-cultural team environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Key Requirements for success in this position include

• Energetic, with a passion and drive that creates excitement in the organization
• Risk taking personality to drive new projects and results
• Creative problem solving skills and ability to achieve win/win results
• Ability to work in a collaborative, team-based environments with a range of constituencies including marketing, business, sales, and engineering
• Encourages open discussion of ideas and views, collaborates well, and solicits feedback