Principal Product Manager - Roadmap

Principal Product Manager - Roadmap

8/19/26

The technical & cloud product marketing organization at Seagate defines and drives product and market strategies that power the world’s data infrastructure. We connect customer insights, technical innovation, and business objectives to shape Seagate’s long-term growth strategy.  This role supports the Product Roadmap function within Seagate’s technical and cloud product marketing organization, with a focus on mainstream cloud customers. The team owns cross-customer portfolio direction, roadmap trade-offs, and the translation of market requirements into prioritized product and technology decisions.  This group partners globally across Product Roadmap, Technical Marketing, Product Marketing, Engineering, Operations, Sales, Finance, Customer Success, and CTO/Architecture to align customer requirements, technical capability, portfolio economics, and roadmap execution.    About the role - you will:

As the Mainstream Cloud Owner, you will represent the roadmap function across Seagate's mainstream cloud customers, driving alignment between customer infrastructure requirements, product capabilities, and roadmap priorities. You will work directly with cloud customers to understand deployment architectures, adoption barriers, and future infrastructure needs while helping shape product direction and customer readiness for new technologies. This role serves as the primary roadmap partner for mainstream cloud accounts and contributes customer insights, deployment experience, and market perspectives into Seagate's broader product and technology roadmap process.  The ideal candidate combines storage domain expertise, cloud infrastructure experience, and customer-facing leadership. They understand how HDDs are deployed and operated within real-world environments, can engage credibly with technical and executive audiences, and help customers successfully adopt new technologies while influencing Seagate's long-term roadmap direction.  Key responsibilities include:

Mainstream Cloud Roadmap Leadership: Serve as the roadmap lead for mainstream cloud customers, representing customer needs, deployment realities, and adoption requirements within Seagate's product and technology roadmap process . Technology Adoption and Enablement: Work closely with customers to understand deployment requirements, operational constraints, and adoption barriers for new HDD technologies, helping ensure successful introduction of new products and capabilities.

Customer and Infrastructure Engagement: Engage directly with cloud infrastructure architects, storage teams, and technical decision makers to understand workload requirements, storage architectures, operational challenges, and future infrastructure needs . QTR and Roadmap Positioning: Craft and communicate roadmap narratives that connect Seagate's technology investments to customer outcomes, ensuring content is technically credible, strategically aligned, and relevant to the audience. Portfolio and Segment Alignment: Contribute to roadmap and portfolio technical content for mainstream cloud customers and guide alignment with the China segment team.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Roadmap, Technical Marketing, Product Marketing, Engineering, Operations,