Senior Portfolio Product Marketing Manager

Function

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

The Team

You’ll be part of a high-impact, highly collaborative Global Product Marketing organization at Hitachi Vantara 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, analyst relations, and executive leadership to drive clarity, consistency, and differentiation in everything we do. We are building a modern, AI-enabled PMM function that combines strategic rigor with a bias for action, elevates the conversation from features to outcomes, and brings clarity to complexity.

What You'll be Doing

We are seeking a strategic, execution-focused Senior Portfolio Product Marketing Manager to strengthen portfolio-level messaging, AI-enabled content quality, team productivity, and operational discipline across Product Marketing.

You will serve as a force multiplier for the VP, Product Marketing and the broader PMM organization by raising the quality bar on our most visible outputs, accelerating AI adoption, strengthening messaging consistency and portfolio discipline, and creating repeatable ways of working that help the team scale.

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 portfolio strategy, messaging consistency, AI-enabled transformation, executive storytelling, and practical operating discipline - and want to help shape how a high-performing PMM team works in the AI era - we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Drive Portfolio Strategy & Messaging Consistency

• Create and operationalize an AI-enabled content and portfolio strategy that improves messaging consistency across products, solutions, corporate narrative, and priority sales plays.
• Develop repeatable workflows, prompts, templates, playbooks, and governance practices that improve content quality, reuse, and speed across the PMM team.
• Partner with PMMs and cross-functional stakeholders to strengthen impact of enablement, customer facing content, and launches.

Reimagine PMM Workflows & Accelerate AI Enablement

• Develop AI training, knowledge-sharing, and adoption plans that help Product Marketing work more efficiently and consistently.
• Build team-wide AI capability for key content development workflows, including prompt libraries, reusable templates, review standards, and practical guidance.
• Identify opportunities to streamline collaboration, communication, tracking, dashboards, and recurring workflows through AI-enabled approaches.

Create High-Visibility Portfolio Deliverables

• Develop and drive the team’s highest-visibility portfolio deliverables, including executive presentations, keynotes, leadership communications, and cross-functional strategic initiatives.
• Translate complex portfolio, product, and market topics into clear, compelling, executive-level narratives.
• Support content development for priority initiatives that require strong storytelling, message discipline, and cross-functional alignment.

Build Practical Operating Discipline

• Create practical governance and operating cadences that improve visibility, accountability, and execution without adding unnecessary process burden.
• Support planning, prioritization, and reporting for key PMM initiatives, helping the team operate as a more data-driven and high-performing function.
• Provide operational support for areas where the team needs structure but does not have dedicated resources, including budget tracking, SOW and PO management, vendor coordination, and initiative tracking.

Collaborate Across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Leadership Teams

• Partner closely with Product Marketing, Product Management, Corporate Marketing, Sales, Analyst Relations, and executive stakeholders to align messaging, content priorities, and strategic deliverables.
• Bring a strong service mindset and collaborative working style to help stakeholders move faster while improving quality and consistency.
• Act as a trusted partner to the VP, Product Marketing by creating leverage across portfolio strategy, AI transformation, strategic content, and operational priorities.

What You Will Bring to the Team

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or equivalent work experience.

• 7+ years of experience in product marketing, portfolio marketing, content strategy, marketing communications, product marketing operations, program management, or related roles.

• Demonstrated ability to create high-quality executive-level content, presentations, narratives, and strategic communications.

• Practical experience using AI tools to improve productivity, accelerate content development, support knowledge management, or transform team workflows.

• Strong understanding of how to turn complex technical and business topics into clear, compelling, customer-relevant stories.

• Experience building repeatable frameworks, templates, prompts, workflows, content governance, or team enablement programs.

• Experience establishing content governance, messaging frameworks, program management disciplines, or operational best practices preferred.

• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders independently.

• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with strong attention to detail and a high quality bar.

• Collaborative, proactive, and resourceful working style with a growth mindset and comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-change environment.

• Enterprise B2B technology experience preferred; familiarity with data infrastructure, storage, hybrid cloud, AI, cyber resilience, or related markets is a plus.

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $160K to $200k. Expected on-target earnings: $200K to $250K.

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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About us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.