# Principal Product Line Manager – Campus Switching

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Roseville, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Annual Salary USD 172,000 - 349,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

HPE Networking is seeking a highly experienced Principal Product Line Manager to lead strategy, roadmap planning, portfolio management, and business performance for next-generation HPE Networking Campus and Branch Switching solutions.

The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise in enterprise networking with strong business acumen and demonstrated success leading complex infrastructure products from concept through end-of-life.

**Responsibilities**

- Own product strategy and multi-year roadmap planning for Campus Switching hardware, software, and silicon investments.

- Define and drive technology, portfolio, and business strategies across access, aggregation, and campus core networking solutions.

- Lead product lifecycle management from concept through launch, growth, transitions, and end-of-life.

- Develop business cases, TAM analyses, investment proposals, pricing strategies, and executive recommendations.

- Partner with ASIC architects, hardware engineering, software engineering, technical marketing and product marketing to define differentiated solutions.

- Drive roadmap prioritization based on customer requirements, market opportunities, competitive positioning, and financial objectives.

- Evaluate emerging AI networking trends, including AIOps, agentic operations, intent-based networking, predictive assurance, autonomous remediation, and AI-driven lifecycle management.

- Engage directly with strategic customers, partners, analysts, and field organizations to validate requirements and portfolio direction.

- Influence executive-level decisions regarding portfolio investments, platform transitions, and strategic growth initiatives.

- Support key customer opportunities, executive briefings, analyst engagements, and major field escalations.

- Act as the cross-functional leader driving alignment between engineering execution and business outcomes.

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

- Investment in career development and growth.

- Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

- 12+ years of experience in product management, product line management, technical marketing, engineering, or related roles for enterprise networking, cloud networking, silicon, or infrastructure products.

- Deep domain experience in enterprise switching, routing, campus architectures, network fabrics, cloud-managed networking, or networking silicon.

- Proven success leading complex infrastructure products or platforms from concept through launch, adoption, lifecycle transition, and end-of-life.

- Experience leading large cross-functional initiatives across engineering, finance, operations, marketing, sales, and go-to-market teams.

- Strong understanding of Ethernet switching, Layer 2/Layer 3 networking, enterprise campus architectures, and network fabrics.

- Demonstrated ability to use customer insights, competitive analysis, market data, financial modeling, and lifecycle economics to guide roadmap priorities and portfolio investment decisions.

- Demonstrated success influencing executive-level roadmap, platform, and investment decisions.

## Skills

### Required
- enterprise networking
- cloud networking
- silicon
- infrastructure products
- product management
- technical marketing
- engineering

### Nice to have
- MBA
- advanced engineering degree
- networking silicon
- merchant silicon ecosystems
- ASIC requirements
- platform architecture
- silicon-enabled differentiation
- cloud-managed networking
- AIOps
- telemetry
- automation
- network assurance
- autonomous remediation
- AI-driven networking operations

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