Senior Product Manager, Orchestration
$170k - $205k • San Francisco, CA - US • FullTime
Posted 1mo ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Crusoe is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Orchestration to own major product areas within their Managed Orchestration portfolio. This role involves end-to-end ownership of Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, control-plane capabilities, node health, managed add-ons, workload scheduling, Slurm on Kubernetes, and customer-facing APIs for large-scale AI infrastructure. It's a deeply technical and hands-on position requiring close collaboration with engineering to translate complex infrastructure challenges into clear, durable product designs, focusing on detailed behavior, edge cases, failure modes, and thoughtful trade-offs to ensure product quality and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Own major orchestration product areas, including roadmap, outcomes, priorities, and quality.
- Develop technical product designs for complex infrastructure problems, defining requirements, system behavior, APIs, and failure handling.
- Partner closely with engineering throughout the product lifecycle to resolve ambiguity and shape solutions.
- Establish a high product-quality bar by pressure-testing designs, evaluating software, and examining edge cases and failure modes.
- Understand customer and operator needs to translate problems into technically sound product improvements.
- Prioritize product investments based on customer value, reliability, differentiation, cost, and operational burden.
- Coordinate interfaces and responsibilities across various cloud platform teams.
- Communicate requirements, decision documents, and technical trade-offs to diverse stakeholders.
Requirements
- Understanding of AI and Machine Learning infrastructure, including training, fine-tuning, inference, and GPU-intensive workloads.
- Strong technical fluency with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or workload orchestration.
- Five or more years of experience in technical product management, owning complex technical products or infrastructure initiatives.
- Systems thinking and attention to detail for reasoning about distributed systems, APIs, lifecycle states, and dependencies.
- Strong product judgment to balance customer value, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
- Proven track record of independently driving cross-functional initiatives to successful outcomes.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to document decisions precisely and create alignment.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Leave of absence programs