Group Product Manager, Platform (Manager)

Lambda•Bellevue, WA

12h•$314,000 - $407,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Lambda is seeking a Group Product Manager, Platform to lead its Platform product group as a player-coach. This role involves hiring and managing three product managers focused on Security, Observability, and Billing, while personally owning the platform product strategy, roadmap, priorities, and tradeoffs. The position requires partnering directly with platform engineering leadership and setting the standard for product management excellence within the team. The ideal candidate will be adept at deriving insights from data, influencing stakeholders without relying on authority, and executing product delivery. Success will be measured by the creation of a trustworthy platform layer for enterprise customers and the development of a high-performing product management team. Lambda values diverse backgrounds and encourages applications from candidates who may not meet every qualification but believe they can succeed in the role.

Requirements

10+ years of product management experience, including experience shipping platform or infrastructure products that other teams build on
3+ years hiring and managing product managers, or have formally led product managers as a first-line manager
Turn ambiguous data and customer signal into a clear decision about what to build next, and can show where you've done it
Win engineers, designers, executives, and customers over to your ideas without relying on organizational authority
Work with the right people to get products launched, then measure and iterate rather than moving on
Are comfortable operating as a player-coach, owning strategy directly while building the team that will own it after you
Can go deep with engineering leadership on technical tradeoffs and hold your own in architecture discussions
Communicate in writing clearly enough that an executive can act on your document without a follow-up meeting
Able to define iterative plans that move an organization from the current state towards the desired outcome

Nice To Haves

Have shipped metering, billing, or monetization systems for usage-based products
Have built identity, security, or compliance product surfaces for enterprise customers
Have built telemetry or observability products, or worked deeply with tools like Prometheus and Grafana
Have a background in GPU compute, high performance computing, or AI infrastructure
Have built a product team from zero, including writing the job descriptions and running the hiring loops

Responsibilities

Hire, manage, and develop the Security, Observability, and Billing product managers, and set the standard for insight, influence, and execution across the Platform product group.
Define and own the platform roadmap end to end across security, observability, and billing, and hold it accountable to customer and business outcomes.
Personally own platform product strategy while the team is being hired, so the roadmap never waits on headcount.
Deliver horizontal capabilities that On-Demand GPU Instances, 1-Click Clusters, and the Lambda Cloud API all depend on, rather than one-off features for a single product line.
Own the product surface for usage-based GPU compute billing, from per-minute on-demand billing to committed multi-node cluster contracts, so every invoice is accurate and explainable.
Shape the identity and security surfaces that let enterprise ML (machine learning) teams adopt Lambda with confidence.
Work side by side with platform engineering leadership on sequencing, tradeoffs, and delivery, so strategy and architecture move together.
Turn fleet telemetry, usage patterns, and customer signal into clear build decisions, and communicate the what, the so what, and the now what to executives and customers.