Job Description

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary:

NetApp is helping organizations modernize their data infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments while maintaining control, security, governance, and flexibility. As organizations navigate cloud migrations, data center modernization, regulatory requirements, virtualization changes, and infrastructure refresh cycles, there is a significant opportunity for NetApp to engage earlier in transformation decisions.

The Migration & Modernization Business Development Manager is responsible for creating demand, generating qualified pipeline, and accelerating growth across EMEA/LATAM. This is a highly strategic business development role focused on identifying market opportunities, engaging customers and partners, and driving measurable pipeline and bookings growth. Success will be measured by pipeline creation, opportunity progression, and business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

Drive Pipeline Growth

• Own the Migration & Modernization pipeline generation strategy across EMEA/LATAM. 
• Identify and prioritize target accounts based on modernization triggers such as infrastructure refreshes, end-of-life technologies, cloud migrations, virtualization changes, regulatory initiatives, and data center transformation projects.
• Work with Sales, Marketing, and Partners to execute campaigns, workshops, executive engagements, and assessments that generate qualified opportunities.
• Develop executive-level relationships and engage directly with customers to uncover and qualify opportunities.

Accelerate Business Growth

• Expand opportunities within the existing customer base through modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Drive net-new business through migration events, competitive displacement opportunities, and infrastructure transformation programs.
• Identify growth areas, improve conversion rates, and help scale repeatable demand-generation motions.

Develop Go-to-Market Plays

• Create and refine migration and modernization value propositions focused on hybrid cloud, data center modernization, workload mobility, virtualization transformation, sovereignty, compliance, and consumption-based models.
• Build repeatable programs that provide account targeting, customer messaging, business value frameworks, competitive positioning, and pipeline generation activities.

Enable the Field

• Equip Client Executives, Systems Engineers, and Partner teams with the tools, messaging, and frameworks needed to identify and qualify modernization opportunities.
• Support strategic opportunities through executive engagement, business case development, and competitive positioning.

Partner & Ecosystem Engagement

• Build joint migration and modernization programs with hyperscalers, systems integrators, managed service providers, cloud providers, and other strategic partners.
• Drive partner-sourced pipeline through joint customer engagements and migration initiatives.

What Success Looks Like

• • Consistent creation of net-new, self-sourced Migration & Modernization pipeline.
  • Growth in bookings and opportunity conversion rates.
  • Increased partner-sourced opportunities and customer expansion initiatives.
  • Greater adoption of modernization plays across Sales and technical teams.
  • Increased engagement earlier in customer transformation decisions.

Job Requirements:

Required

• 8+ years of experience in Business Development, Strategic Sales, Go-to-Market, Cloud Transformation, or Infrastructure Modernization.
• Proven track record of generating pipeline and influencing revenue growth within enterprise technology environments.
• Experience building target account strategies and identifying opportunities based on business or technology trigger events.
• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, data infrastructure, virtualization, cloud migration, and modernization strategies.
• Ability to develop and present business cases to senior business and technology leaders, including CIOs and CFOs.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Fluent English and willingness to travel across EMEA/LATAM as required.

Preferred

• Experience working with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or large systems integrators.
• Understanding of regulatory and sovereignty requirements including DORA, NIS2, and data residency considerations.
• Experience supporting large-scale migration, virtualization, cloud, or data center transformation projects.
• Additional European language skills are advantageous.

Why Join NetApp?

You will play a pivotal role in helping customers modernize their infrastructure, transform how they manage data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and shape strategic technology decisions across EMEA and LATAM. This is an opportunity to build and scale a high-impact business motion with direct influence on growth, market expansion, and customer success.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

Submitting an Application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.

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