Principal Product Manager – Virtualization Architect

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Principal Product Manager defining and driving the strategy for KVM-based virtualization products. Collaborating across engineering and sales to deliver market-leading solutions based on open-source technology.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $160,000 - $349,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudLinuxVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Independently leads end-to-end strategy and operational roadmap for one or more KVM-based virtualization products or a broader virtualization platform portfolio, spanning hypervisor core, management APIs, and guest ecosystem.
Defines and drives the virtualization platform value proposition — including performance benchmarks, TCO advantages, and feature differentiation versus VMware, Hyper-V, and other competing hypervisor stacks — to support go-to-market and sales enablement.
Synthesizes market and customer requirements (MRDs) by maintaining deep knowledge of enterprise virtualization use cases: VDI, server consolidation, cloud-native workloads, telco NFV/edge, and HPC virtualization.
Translates KVM/QEMU/libvirt engineering capabilities into customer-facing requirements and product specifications, ensuring technical feasibility and roadmap alignment with upstream open-source communities (e.g., Linux kernel KVM subsystem, QEMU project).
Guides key stakeholders through all lifecycle phases — from hypervisor feature planning and kernel integration to product launch, sustaining engineering, and platform end-of-life planning.
Collaborates across engineering, supply chain, and marketing to optimize product configuration, SKU design, pricing, and go-to-market strategies for virtualization platform offerings.
Acts as a subject matter authority on KVM virtualization architecture, providing technical direction to internal teams, enabling sales and partner technical communities, and representing the product externally with customers and at industry forums.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study.
MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.
10+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or a related technical role, with significant exposure to virtualization platforms and hypervisor technologies.
Demonstrated hands-on or architectural familiarity with KVM, QEMU, libvirt, and the broader Linux virtualization stack; experience with upstream open-source contribution or community engagement is a strong plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health & Wellbeing
Personal & Professional Development
Unconditional Inclusion

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Hard Skills & Tools

KVMQEMUlibvirtvirtualizationhypervisorperformance benchmarksTCO advantagescloud-native workloadsHPC virtualizationserver consolidation

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationstrategic planningstakeholder managementtechnical directioncustomer engagementmarket analysisproduct launchgo-to-market strategy

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in engineeringMBAadvanced degree in computer scienceadvanced degree in engineering