Principal AI Product Manager

MinIO

17h

About The Position

MinIO is hiring a senior product leader for a small, high-leverage product team. The Principal AI Product Manager will own key parts of the product line, including positioning, pricing, packaging, and field sales support. The role works closely with engineering and serves as a key source of product and market context for Marketing and Field teams. The position centers on customer and revenue outcomes, close engagement with technical buyers and executives, and treating go-to-market as a core part of product development. The product leader will shape AI growth strategy, engage with customers and strategic deals, develop market positioning, support sellers, assess competitive dynamics, build partner go-to-market motions, and use customer, pipeline, and competitive insights to influence product direction.

Requirements

At least 8 years of product management experience, including at least 3 years working on infrastructure, data, or AI/ML products sold to technical buyers.
Fluency in modern AI and analytics stacks, including how training and inference pipelines consume storage, key tradeoffs, and how data platform teams make build-versus-buy decisions.
Experience partnering with field teams on revenue-generating deals, participating in sales conversations, creating seller-used enablement, and influencing deal outcomes.
Experience partnering with Marketing on compelling narratives and presenting at external conferences or webinars.
Strong analytical instincts and use of data to test hypotheses.
Clear writing and rigorous written thinking.
Ability to partner effectively with engineering, establish technical credibility, and make prioritization decisions defensible.

Nice To Haves

Experience owning or co-owning pricing and packaging decisions.
Background in storage, analytics, databases, or data infrastructure.
Experience as an AI/ML Engineer with deep expertise in the data infrastructure stack.
Experience with open-source-adjacent commercial products and their go-to-market motions.
Prior experience at a high-growth infrastructure company.

Responsibilities

Develop AI growth strategy, including target markets and buyers, competitive approach, and sequencing of strategic bets.
Engage with inference platform teams, data platform leads, and decision-makers; participate in strategic deals and run win/loss analysis to inform strategy.
Partner with Marketing on product positioning and narratives, published content, and how prospective customers first encounter MinIO.
Build sales assets and support important deals; enable field teams to confidently engage inference and lakehouse buyers.
Shape product pricing and packaging, including how AI and analytics offerings are priced and how value is captured as workloads grow.
Track the AI training and inference competitive landscape and shape product differentiation.
Develop partner go-to-market opportunities within the AI ecosystem.
Influence product direction using customer feedback, pipeline data, and competitive insights.