Principal Product Manager - Nvidia Technology Partnerships

Lambda•Bellevue, WA

2d•$338,000 - $500,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Lambda, a leader in AI cloud infrastructure, is seeking a Principal Product Manager for Technology Partnerships, specifically focusing on NVIDIA. This role involves managing the product aspects of Lambda's relationship with NVIDIA, which includes being a partner, investor, and supplier. The Product Manager will stay informed about NVIDIA's hardware and software roadmap, decide which technologies Lambda should adopt or pass on, and manage joint engineering programs from a product perspective. The role requires strong insight, influence, and execution skills, with a need to learn new domains quickly and reason rigorously from evidence. Deep hardware platform or infrastructure software experience at a cloud provider, silicon vendor, or systems company is highly desired. The position requires presence in the Bellevue or San Francisco office four days per week.

Requirements

10+ years of product management experience, including time at a cloud provider, systems company, or silicon vendor.
Experience owning a strategic technology partnership where two companies built things together.
Ability to analyze silicon and systems roadmaps and determine their implications for a cloud business, including adoption decisions.
Sufficient understanding of GPU platforms to engage in technical discussions with designers.
Experience making adoption decisions with significant capital and engineering costs, and ability to discuss past decisions, including mistakes.
Experience managing a program where external and internal engineers collaborated to deliver a shared outcome.
Ability to decline requests from powerful counterparts while maintaining the relationship.
Skill in defining iterative plans to guide an organization from its current state to a desired outcome.
Clear communication and writing skills, with the ability to simplify complex information for diverse audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience with GPU or accelerator platforms, including the process of qualifying new generations.
Experience evaluating pre-release technology from silicon or systems vendors for potential adoption.
Experience considering data center power, cooling, or density as product inputs.
Experience evaluating infrastructure software for adoption, including build, buy, or partner decisions.
Experience managing a co-development program with an external partner.
Prior experience at a GPU cloud, hyperscaler, or AI infrastructure company.

Responsibilities

Track NVIDIA's hardware and software roadmap to enable Lambda to plan proactively.
Decide which of NVIDIA's new hardware and software Lambda should productize for On-Demand GPU Instances, 1-Click Clusters, and private cloud deployments, and which to pass on, documenting the reasoning.
Take adopted NVIDIA technologies through the entire product lifecycle, including packaging, pricing, and launch criteria.
Serve as the single point of contact for both Lambda and NVIDIA, ensuring requests are routed to the correct product and engineering owners.
Own the product side of joint engineering programs between Lambda and NVIDIA, defining scope and completion criteria.
Collaborate with Lambda's hardware product managers to ensure platform decisions are informed by the latest NVIDIA GPU generation information.
Translate relationship outcomes into requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for Lambda's engineering teams.
Clearly communicate decisions to partners, including what Lambda will not do and why, to maintain a positive relationship.
Define success metrics for adoption decisions and evaluate their outcomes.
Partner with product managers responsible for compute, storage, networking, orchestration, and security to integrate adopted technologies.