Director Product Management, Enterprise Data and AI

As part of the SanDisk Global IT organization, this Director-level role places you at the forefront of a company-wide transformation to embed AI into core operations and product innovation. You will play a pivotal role in executing SanDisk’s enterprise AI strategy, with a focus on Generative AI (LLMs, agents), traditional ML, and data platform build-out.

SanDisk is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead product strategy and execution for Enterprise Data and AI efforts that will enable teams across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and IT to build, deploy, and scale data‑driven and AI‑powered solutions on a shared, secure and unified data platform AIML and Generative AI stack.

This role is responsible for platform vision, business stakeholder and functional engagement,  roadmap ownership, and value delivery for core Enterprise Data and AI platform capabilities, working closely with Data & AI leadership, platform engineering teams, and business stakeholders.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the product roadmap for Enterprise Data and AI platform capabilities, aligned to enterprise priorities and platform maturity.
• Translate business needs and technical strategy into clear, prioritized product capabilities.
• Balance near‑term delivery with longer‑term platform evolution.

Platform Product Management

• Lead product management for core platform areas, including:
  • Data lakehouse and data products
  • Semantic layer and enterprise data access
  • AI/ML and GenAI platform foundations
  • Agentic workflows and shared AI services
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams to ensure capabilities are scalable, secure, and production‑ready.

Use Case Enablement & Value

• Drive the intake, prioritization, and lifecycle of enterprise AI and data use cases.
• Guide teams from proof‑of‑concept to productized, reusable solutions.
• Define success metrics and track business impact of AI‑enabled solutions.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the primary product partner to IT, Engineering, InfoSec, Legal, Procurement, and business teams.
• Ensure alignment with security, Responsible AI, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Communicate roadmap, tradeoffs, and progress clearly to senior stakeholders.

Adoption & Experience

• Define the engagement model for developers, data scientists, and business users adopting Vortex.
• Partner with enablement and change teams to support onboarding, documentation, and adoption.
• Continuously improve developer and user experience.

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor a small team of product managers or product owners.
• Establish consistent product management practices, planning cadence, and execution discipline.

Required

• 15+ years of product management experience, including ownership of enterprise platforms or shared services.
• Experience with data platforms, AI/ML platforms, or developer platforms.
• Strong understanding of modern data architectures and AI/GenAI concepts.
• Proven ability to work effectively in matrixed, cross‑functional environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred

• Experience in large enterprise or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, enterprise data ecosystem and semi-conductor vertical
• Experience helping scale AI initiatives from pilots into production.
• Prior collaboration with security, legal, or procurement teams.

Why Join

Enterprise Data and AI capabilities is a foundational platform shaping how SanDisk uses data and AI across the enterprise. This role offers the opportunity to directly influence platform capabilities, enable high‑impact AI use cases, and help scale enterprise AI in a practical, responsible way.

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 05/18/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.