Sr Director, Product Strategy & Growth
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should include sections only if posting has real specific content. We have:
- Job Summary (could be About the role)
- Key Responsibilities (Responsibilities)
- Education and Experience (Qualifications/Education and Experience)
- Compensation (Pay)
- Benefits (Benefits)
- Hybrid working environment (Schedule? maybe not schedule but could be Schedule? Actually schedule is about work arrangement; we could treat as Schedule? But they said include Schedule only if posting actually states them. It says "At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process." That's about work arrangement, could be Schedule. We'll include a Schedule section.
We should not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc.
We need to remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, scam-warning, application instructions, AI Disclosure, etc. Also remove "Why You'll Thrive at NetApp", "Our culture", etc. Also remove "Submitting an Application", "AI Disclosure". Also remove "Equal Opportunity Employer" etc.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we keep job summary text, responsibilities list, education/experience, compensation, benefits, hybrid work schedule.
We need to format responsibilities as - . Each bullet is a sentence; we can split by periods? The responsibilities paragraph is a long sentence with multiple clauses separated by periods. We'll split into list items each ending with period.
Similarly Education and Experience: list of bullet points? It's a paragraph with multiple sentences separated by periods. We'll split.
Compensation: we have a paragraph about target salary range and description. We'll keep as
.
Benefits: paragraph about benefits.
Schedule: paragraph about hybrid working environment.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /. Use
headings.
Let's craft.
First, About the role: use the Job Summary paragraph (maybe multiple sentences). We'll keep as
.
Then Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- ... each bullet.
We need to extract bullet points from "Key Responsibilities". The text after "Key Responsibilities" is:
"Serve as the CPO's strategy partner, turning portfolio direction into a sharp, evidence-based point of view on where the organization should invest, hold, or exit.Expose the portfolio's gaps, overlaps, and white space, and guide the organization toward the bets with the clearest path to revenue and margin.Shape portfolio investment priorities in partnership with Product Leadership, leveraging NetApp's cost, ROI, and product-investment models to make the case for moving resources to their highest-return use.Evaluate material capability gaps with Product leadership and develop build, buy, or partner recommendations, making the strategic, economic, and time-to-value implications explicit for the product owners’ investment decisions.Own the upstream corporate-development agenda from the product side, from acquisition thesis and target landscape through qualification and the business case built with Corporate Development and Finance and validated with CPO staff.Lead diligence through the product and technical lens, testing whether a target's capability, architecture, and economics deliver the thesis before capital is committed.Own product-side integration of acquired businesses, working through the inheriting teams to merge roadmaps, rationalize overlapping products and platforms, and hold the line on synergy realization.Develop and institutionalize product acquisition and integration playbooks that tailor integration plans to the type of acquisition, accelerating time-to-value, reducing execution risk, and improving ROI.Build, lead, and develop a high-caliber team of strategy, growth, and integration leaders who influence through insight, analytical rigor, and trusted partnership across Product, Engineering, Corporate Development, Finance, and GTM."
We need to split at periods. Let's list:
1. Serve as the CPO's strategy partner, turning portfolio direction into a sharp, evidence-based point of view on where the organization should invest, hold, or exit.
2. Expose the portfolio's gaps, overlaps, and white space, and guide the organization toward the bets with the clearest path to revenue and margin.
3. Shape portfolio investment priorities in partnership with Product Leadership, leveraging NetApp's cost, ROI, and product-investment models to make the case for moving resources to their highest-return use.
4. Evaluate material capability gaps with Product leadership and develop build, buy, or partner recommendations, making the strategic, economic, and time-to-value implications explicit for the product owners’ investment decisions.
5. Own the upstream corporate-development agenda from the product side, from acquisition thesis and target landscape through qualification and the business case built with Corporate Development and Finance and validated with CPO staff.
6. Lead diligence through the product and technical lens, testing whether a target's capability, architecture, and economics deliver the thesis before capital is committed.
7. Own product-side integration of acquired businesses, working through the inheriting teams to merge roadmaps, rationalize overlapping products and platforms, and hold the line on synergy realization.
8. Develop and institutionalize product acquisition and integration playbooks that tailor integration plans to the type of acquisition, accelerating time-to-value, reducing execution risk, and improving ROI.
9. Build, lead, and develop a high-caliber team of strategy, growth, and integration leaders who influence through insight, analytical rigor, and trusted partnership across Product, Engineering, Corporate Development, Finance, and GTM.
Now Education and Experience paragraph:
"12+ years of experience spanning product strategy, corporate strategy, corporate development partnership, and senior operating leadership roles within enterprise technology.Proven success shaping portfolio strategy, driving business and portfolio transformation, and influencing enterprise investment decisions through data-driven insight and executive partnership; Combined experience across top-tier consulting and operating in-house within a scaled technology company preferred.Experience leading inorganic growth initiatives, including acquisition strategy, diligence, integration, and value realization; product-side integration expertise strongly preferred.Deep fluency in technology business economics, portfolio investment, capital allocation, and growth strategy, combined with technical credibility across data infrastructure, cloud, and AI.A proven people leader and executive communicator, able to build a high-caliber team and to move senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Finance, Corporate Development, and GTM without relying on formal authority, and to operate with conviction as evidence and direction evolve. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business,or a related field required; MBA preferred."
Split by periods:
1. 12+ years of experience spanning product strategy, corporate strategy, corporate development partnership, and senior operating leadership roles within enterprise technology.
2. Proven success shaping portfolio strategy, driving business and portfolio transformation, and influencing enterprise investment decisions through data-driven insight and executive partnership;
3. Combined experience across top-tier consulting and operating in-house within a scaled technology company preferred.
4. Experience leading inorganic growth initiatives, including acquisition strategy, diligence, integration, and value realization; product-side integration expertise strongly preferred.
5. Deep fluency in technology business economics, portfolio investment, capital allocation, and growth strategy, combined with technical credibility across data infrastructure, cloud, and AI.
6. A proven people leader and executive communicator, able to build a high-caliber team and to move senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Finance, Corporate Development, and GTM without relying on formal authority, and to operate with conviction as evidence and direction evolve.
7. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business,or a related field required; MBA preferred.
Note some have semicolons; we keep as is.
Compensation paragraph:
"The target salary range for this position is 266,050 - 396,000 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process."
We could keep as
. Might be long but okay.
Benefits: Actually compensation paragraph already includes benefits description. The instruction says include Benefits section only if posting actually states them. The posting does mention benefits in compensation paragraph. But we could still have a Benefits section separate? The posting also says "This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance..." which is benefits. However we already included that in compensation paragraph. To avoid duplication, we could keep compensation paragraph as is and not create separate Benefits section. But the instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could merge benefits into Compensation section. However they gave example headings including Benefits separate. But we can decide to not create Benefits if it's already covered. However the instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it". The posting does have specific content about benefits (health insurance etc). So we could create a Benefits section with that content. But then compensation section would be just about salary range. That's okay.
Thus we will have:
- About the role (Job Summary)
- Responsibilities
- Qualifications (Education and Experience)
- Pay (Compensation salary range)
- Benefits (benefits description)
- Schedule (Hybrid working environment)
We need to extract benefits description from compensation paragraph: "This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process."
We'll put that in Benefits
.
Pay section: target salary range and determination statement: "The target salary range for this position is 266,050 - 396,000 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package." Wait that last sentence mentions benefits package; we might move that to Benefits. But we can keep it in Pay as it's part of compensation. However to avoid duplication, we could keep Pay just about salary range and determination, and Benefits about details. The sentence "Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package." mentions benefits; we could keep it in Pay but it's okay. We'll keep it in Pay.
Now Schedule: "At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process."
Now we need to output HTML fragment.
Let's craft:
About the role
The Chief Product Officer sets the direction for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio spanning data infrastructure, storage, cloud, and AI. This leader is the strategy partner who makes that direction concrete: sharpening the portfolio point of view, exposing where it is under-invested or exposed, and converting ambiguous market and financial signals into the specific bets the organization should place. It carries no product P&L of its own. Its influence comes from the rigor of its analysis and the trust of the CPO staff whose products it helps steer. This role reports into the VP of Growth, Analytics & AI
. Benefits: paragraph about benefits. Schedule: paragraph about hybrid working environment. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /. Use
headings. Let's craft. First, About the role: use the Job Summary paragraph (maybe multiple sentences). We'll keep as
. Then Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- ... each bullet.
We need to extract bullet points from "Key Responsibilities". The text after "Key Responsibilities" is:
"Serve as the CPO's strategy partner, turning portfolio direction into a sharp, evidence-based point of view on where the organization should invest, hold, or exit.Expose the portfolio's gaps, overlaps, and white space, and guide the organization toward the bets with the clearest path to revenue and margin.Shape portfolio investment priorities in partnership with Product Leadership, leveraging NetApp's cost, ROI, and product-investment models to make the case for moving resources to their highest-return use.Evaluate material capability gaps with Product leadership and develop build, buy, or partner recommendations, making the strategic, economic, and time-to-value implications explicit for the product owners’ investment decisions.Own the upstream corporate-development agenda from the product side, from acquisition thesis and target landscape through qualification and the business case built with Corporate Development and Finance and validated with CPO staff.Lead diligence through the product and technical lens, testing whether a target's capability, architecture, and economics deliver the thesis before capital is committed.Own product-side integration of acquired businesses, working through the inheriting teams to merge roadmaps, rationalize overlapping products and platforms, and hold the line on synergy realization.Develop and institutionalize product acquisition and integration playbooks that tailor integration plans to the type of acquisition, accelerating time-to-value, reducing execution risk, and improving ROI.Build, lead, and develop a high-caliber team of strategy, growth, and integration leaders who influence through insight, analytical rigor, and trusted partnership across Product, Engineering, Corporate Development, Finance, and GTM."
We need to split at periods. Let's list:
1. Serve as the CPO's strategy partner, turning portfolio direction into a sharp, evidence-based point of view on where the organization should invest, hold, or exit.
2. Expose the portfolio's gaps, overlaps, and white space, and guide the organization toward the bets with the clearest path to revenue and margin.
3. Shape portfolio investment priorities in partnership with Product Leadership, leveraging NetApp's cost, ROI, and product-investment models to make the case for moving resources to their highest-return use.
4. Evaluate material capability gaps with Product leadership and develop build, buy, or partner recommendations, making the strategic, economic, and time-to-value implications explicit for the product owners’ investment decisions.
5. Own the upstream corporate-development agenda from the product side, from acquisition thesis and target landscape through qualification and the business case built with Corporate Development and Finance and validated with CPO staff.
6. Lead diligence through the product and technical lens, testing whether a target's capability, architecture, and economics deliver the thesis before capital is committed.
7. Own product-side integration of acquired businesses, working through the inheriting teams to merge roadmaps, rationalize overlapping products and platforms, and hold the line on synergy realization.
8. Develop and institutionalize product acquisition and integration playbooks that tailor integration plans to the type of acquisition, accelerating time-to-value, reducing execution risk, and improving ROI.
9. Build, lead, and develop a high-caliber team of strategy, growth, and integration leaders who influence through insight, analytical rigor, and trusted partnership across Product, Engineering, Corporate Development, Finance, and GTM.
Now Education and Experience paragraph:
"12+ years of experience spanning product strategy, corporate strategy, corporate development partnership, and senior operating leadership roles within enterprise technology.Proven success shaping portfolio strategy, driving business and portfolio transformation, and influencing enterprise investment decisions through data-driven insight and executive partnership; Combined experience across top-tier consulting and operating in-house within a scaled technology company preferred.Experience leading inorganic growth initiatives, including acquisition strategy, diligence, integration, and value realization; product-side integration expertise strongly preferred.Deep fluency in technology business economics, portfolio investment, capital allocation, and growth strategy, combined with technical credibility across data infrastructure, cloud, and AI.A proven people leader and executive communicator, able to build a high-caliber team and to move senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Finance, Corporate Development, and GTM without relying on formal authority, and to operate with conviction as evidence and direction evolve. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business,or a related field required; MBA preferred."
Split by periods:
1. 12+ years of experience spanning product strategy, corporate strategy, corporate development partnership, and senior operating leadership roles within enterprise technology.
2. Proven success shaping portfolio strategy, driving business and portfolio transformation, and influencing enterprise investment decisions through data-driven insight and executive partnership;
3. Combined experience across top-tier consulting and operating in-house within a scaled technology company preferred.
4. Experience leading inorganic growth initiatives, including acquisition strategy, diligence, integration, and value realization; product-side integration expertise strongly preferred.
5. Deep fluency in technology business economics, portfolio investment, capital allocation, and growth strategy, combined with technical credibility across data infrastructure, cloud, and AI.
6. A proven people leader and executive communicator, able to build a high-caliber team and to move senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Finance, Corporate Development, and GTM without relying on formal authority, and to operate with conviction as evidence and direction evolve.
7. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business,or a related field required; MBA preferred.
Note some have semicolons; we keep as is.
Compensation paragraph:
"The target salary range for this position is 266,050 - 396,000 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process."
We could keep as
. Might be long but okay. Benefits: Actually compensation paragraph already includes benefits description. The instruction says include Benefits section only if posting actually states them. The posting does mention benefits in compensation paragraph. But we could still have a Benefits section separate? The posting also says "This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance..." which is benefits. However we already included that in compensation paragraph. To avoid duplication, we could keep compensation paragraph as is and not create separate Benefits section. But the instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could merge benefits into Compensation section. However they gave example headings including Benefits separate. But we can decide to not create Benefits if it's already covered. However the instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it". The posting does have specific content about benefits (health insurance etc). So we could create a Benefits section with that content. But then compensation section would be just about salary range. That's okay. Thus we will have: - About the role (Job Summary) - Responsibilities - Qualifications (Education and Experience) - Pay (Compensation salary range) - Benefits (benefits description) - Schedule (Hybrid working environment) We need to extract benefits description from compensation paragraph: "This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process." We'll put that in Benefits
. Pay section: target salary range and determination statement: "The target salary range for this position is 266,050 - 396,000 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package." Wait that last sentence mentions benefits package; we might move that to Benefits. But we can keep it in Pay as it's part of compensation. However to avoid duplication, we could keep Pay just about salary range and determination, and Benefits about details. The sentence "Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package." mentions benefits; we could keep it in Pay but it's okay. We'll keep it in Pay. Now Schedule: "At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process." Now we need to output HTML fragment. Let's craft:
About the role
The Chief Product Officer sets the direction for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio spanning data infrastructure, storage, cloud, and AI. This leader is the strategy partner who makes that direction concrete: sharpening the portfolio point of view, exposing where it is under-invested or exposed, and converting ambiguous market and financial signals into the specific bets the organization should place. It carries no product P&L of its own. Its influence comes from the rigor of its analysis and the trust of the CPO staff whose products it helps steer. This role reports into the VP of Growth, Analytics & AI