Sr. Product Manager, Compute Platform
📍 Location: San Francisco, California, United States (Remote)
🏢 Industry: Software Development
💼 Work Setting: Remote (Continental U.S.) with occasional travel.
Are you passionate about building scalable cloud platforms that power data-intensive workloads and delivering products that create exceptional customer experiences? We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of next-generation compute platform capabilities. In this role, you will work closely with engineering, design, sales, marketing, and customers to define innovative solutions, drive adoption, and shape the future of cloud-based compute services.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Vision
- Define, own, and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for compute platform capabilities and services.
- Identify market opportunities, customer needs, and emerging technology trends to guide product direction.
- Develop long-term product strategies that align with business objectives and customer outcomes.
- Drive innovation and differentiation through strategic product planning and execution.
Customer & Market Engagement
- Engage directly with enterprise customers, partners, and stakeholders to understand challenges, requirements, and opportunities.
- Gather customer feedback and translate insights into high-impact product enhancements.
- Evaluate market trends and competitive offerings to inform product positioning and roadmap priorities.
- Advocate for customer needs throughout the product development lifecycle.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Collaborate closely with engineering, design, sales, marketing, and operational teams to deliver successful product outcomes.
- Partner with engineering teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and ensure high-quality execution.
- Coordinate product launches and support go-to-market activities to maximize adoption and impact.
- Align stakeholders around product goals, priorities, and business objectives.
Product Execution & Delivery
- Define product requirements, success metrics, and business cases for new features and enhancements.
- Manage the complete product lifecycle from ideation and planning through launch and continuous improvement.
- Balance customer needs, technical constraints, and business priorities to make informed product decisions.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-value product capabilities through effective roadmap management.
Data-Driven Decision Making
- Use quantitative and qualitative insights to guide product decisions and prioritization.
- Establish key performance indicators and measure product success against business and customer outcomes.
- Analyze product performance and user behavior to identify optimization opportunities.
- Continuously iterate and improve the user experience through experimentation and feedback.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of Product Management experience, preferably supporting cloud platforms, analytics solutions, infrastructure products, or enterprise software.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing, distributed systems, data platforms, and compute technologies.
- Experience defining and delivering complex, highly technical products in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders across multiple organizations.
- Strong customer engagement experience with enterprise clients and strategic partners.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical concepts into customer-focused business value.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing infrastructure, platform, cloud services, SaaS, or data platform products.
- Familiarity with enterprise-scale compute environments and workload management concepts.
- Experience conducting market analysis, competitive research, and product positioning.
- Knowledge of cloud architecture, analytics platforms, and modern software development practices.
- Track record of successfully launching and scaling technology products.
Ideal Candidate
- Customer-focused and passionate about solving complex technical challenges.
- Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and product instincts.
- Highly collaborative and effective at building alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving initiatives from concept to execution.
- Analytical, data-driven, and committed to delivering measurable business outcomes.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or a related field. Advanced technical or business education is a plus.
