Staff Product Manager - Compute

Role description

Role Overview

As a product manager on the Compute team, you will own a meaningful part of defining the future of how we provide compute to our customers. The domain covers the shape of what customers rent, meaning instance families, sizes, and tenancy, across both GPUs and central processing units (CPUs).

What You Will Do

You will work across these areas depending on which customer needs are burning hottest. Most of this is the feature set a mature compute cloud already has and Lambda does not have yet.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Great product managers at Lambda are defined by three things: insight, influence, and execution. Insight means you look at the data, determine what it means for customers and business, and then figure out what to do about it.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience, including time on a compute platform at a hyperscaler, neocloud, or comparable cloud provider.
• Have shipped compute primitives that external customers used at scale, like instance types, capacity products, provisioning interfaces, or placement and isolation controls.
• Understand GPU and CPU infrastructure well enough to reason with engineers about launch paths, hardware failure modes, placement, and performance.
• Have owned a product where day two behavior mattered as much as launch, including failure handling, maintenance, and what customers are told when something breaks.
• Have owned pricing, packaging, or commitment terms for an infrastructure product.
• Can tell which parts of a hyperscaler playbook transfer to an AI cloud and which are cost without benefit.
• Can reason about utilization and capacity economics, and make the call when customer flexibility and hardware utilization pull against each other.
• Able to define iterative plans that move an organization from the current state towards the desired outcome.
• Can turn ambiguous customer, technical, and commercial inputs into product definition that multiple teams execute against.
• Communicate plainly, write well, and make decisions easier for people who do not all share the same context.

Benefits

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use