Senior Director, Product Marketing

The Team

You'll be part of a high-impact, highly collaborative Global Product Marketing organization at the center of Hitachi Vantara's strategy that is shaping how we position our portfolio, tell our story, and engage the market at a pivotal moment in the evolution of AI and data infrastructure. Our team operates at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and execution, partnering closely with product, sales, marketing and executive leadership to drive clarity, consistency, and differentiation in everything we do. We are building a team that combines strategic rigor with a bias for action, elevates the conversation from features to outcomes, and brings clarity to complexity. We need people like you to help build those deep relationships and to passionately articulate our differentiation and value proposition.

What You'll be Doing

This role goes beyond traditional product marketing. We are seeking a strategic and execution-focused Senior Director of Product Marketing to shape and operationalize a platform- and portfolio-first narrative across our storage offerings ensuring customers clearly understand how our innovations come together to deliver business outcomes. This role is critical to advancing Hitachi Vantara's position as a trusted data foundation for AI and hybrid cloud.

You will lead a team that owns our platform and portfolio narrative along with our midrange, high-end enterprise, and software-defined storage product marketing strategy and execution. This role requires a balance of strategic leadership, executive influence, and operational rigor to collaborate across functions and collectively scale impact globally as a team.

This position is part of the Global Product Marketing team and reports to the VP, Product Marketing, within the company's Product organization.

If you thrive at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and influence-and want to play a defining role in shaping market perception in the AI era-we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Lead Platform & Portfolio Narrative

• Evolve and build upon unified storage platform story into a clear, outcome-driven value proposition that leads with solutions aligned to hybrid cloud, data modernization, cyber resilience, and AI readiness
• Define clear positioning against key competitors and ensure differentiation is consistently reflected across all content
• Ensure consistency across messaging, launches, campaigns, and field activation

Own Go-to-Market Strategy for Storage Portfolio

• Develop and execute GTM strategies across the storage portfolio, including messaging and positioning for VSP One midrange, high-end systems, and SDS offerings
• Translate product capabilities into customer-relevant use cases, solutions, and business outcomes
• Drive integrated launches that reflect both portfolio cohesion and product differentiation

Cross-functional Collaboration and Leadership

• Partner with Sales and Partner teams to deliver clear, actionable messaging and enablement that resonates with customers
• Build and scale sales plays aligned to priority use cases, ensuring the field can confidently articulate why Hitachi Vantara wins at both platform and product levels
• Act as strategic partner to product management by bringing the voice of the market (customer, competitive, and analyst insights) into roadmap discussions to influence product strategy

Team Leadership & Operational Excellence

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of product marketers fostering a culture of innovation, agility, accountability, and customer-centricity.
• Build repeatable and consistent frameworks for messaging, launches, and portfolio storytelling.
• Establish KPIs to measure impact.

What You Will Bring to the Team

• Bachelor's degree in marketing or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in product marketing for enterprise B2B technology, software and/or services.
• Expertise in data infrastructure, storage, hybrid cloud, and/or AI/analytics markets
• Great storytelling skills with the ability to translate technical innovation into clear, compelling narratives
• Demonstrated ability to lead product marketing for multi-product portfolios and drive growth in a fast-paced, high-change environment.
• Executive presence and experience working with senior leadership
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions.
• Creative, proactive leader with growth mindset and exceptional communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $185K to $275K. Expected on-target earnings: $240K to $350K

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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