Principal Product Manager, AI Infrastructure (Storage)
Crusoe — San Francisco, California, United States · In-Person · Staff+ · $285k - $335k/yearly
Role description
Role Overview
As a Principal Product Manager on our AI Infrastructure team, you will own the long-term architecture and technology strategy for Crusoe's storage foundation, working as a peer to senior infrastructure engineers and architects. You will define the 2-4 year vision and roadmap for Crusoe's storage foundation, across block, file, object, local NVMe, and archival tiers. You will partner closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Software Engineering, and Architecture to translate future workload, fleet, and customer requirements into infrastructure requirements, and manage the vendor relationships that keep our storage stack world-class for AI at scale.
What You Will Do
Define the long-term vision and roadmap for Crusoe's storage foundation, own the long-term storage architecture and hierarchy, and manage the vendor relationships that keep our storage stack world-class for AI at scale. You will set the performance and durability targets the platform must hit, including storage cost per usable TB and capacity efficiency. You will own the future architecture required to support significantly larger AI clusters and fleet scale.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You will be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, and you will have the opportunity to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and grow your career alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of technical product management experience, or product-minded infrastructure engineering experience, with a track record of owning architecture-level outcomes at Principal or equivalent scope, specifically focused on cloud storage or related infrastructure.
- Subject matter expertise in storage, with the credibility to operate as a peer to senior infrastructure engineers and architects.
- Strong technical understanding of cloud storage architectures, including block, file, and object storage, at hyperscale.
- Experience managing long-term vendor strategy and vetting in-house software engineering investment for storage hardware and software.
- A strong grasp of infrastructure economics at scale, including cost per usable TB and capacity efficiency.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to use data to inform multi-year infrastructure decisions.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate technical tradeoffs into clear narratives for engineering leadership and executives.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks & programs specific to location