Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
- 7+ years of product management experience in SSDs, storage, semiconductors, or related hardware technologies
- Prior experience working with or supporting hyperscalers, cloud providers, or large-scale data center customers strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of:
- SSD architecture, NAND flash, and controller/SoC design
- NVMe ecosystem and next-generation interfaces (PCIe Gen4/5/6 and beyond)
- Enterprise and hyperscale storage systems (block, file, object storage)
- Familiarity with:
- AI/ML infrastructure and data pipelines (GPU-based systems, KV cache, storage tiering)
- Software-defined storage, virtualization, and cloud-native environments (Linux, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Proven ability to translate complex technical, market, and financial data into clear product strategies and differentiated features
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence both internal stakeholders and external customers
- Demonstrated success in managing multiple complex programs, prioritizing under uncertainty, and driving decisions with incomplete data
- Excellent cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills across global teams
- Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels, from long-term roadmap planning to tactical issue resolution
- Role may require cross-segment flexibility in the future, with the opportunity to rotate between Client (OEM/Notebook), Hyperscale/Data Center or Enterprise (Large OEMs) SSD Product Management to build broad domain expertise and drive unified product strategy
- Willingness to travel (~25%) for customer engagements, design reviews, and industry events
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with hyperscale qualification cycles, deployment models, and fleet-level optimization (performance, power, endurance, TCO)
- Exposure to industry standards and consortia (e.g., NVMe, OCP, SNIA)
- Background in ecosystem collaboration (CPU/GPU vendors, platform providers, storage software vendors)
- Experience in AI-driven storage use cases and next-generation data center architectures
Additional Information
Req#2248; #LI-CB1;
The expected salary for this position is $144,330.00 - $240,550.00.
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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