Product Manager: Data Centers

Taara•Sunnyvale, CA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

This role, Product Manager: Data Centers, focuses on shaping Taara’s products for data center and infrastructure use cases. You will work closely with engineering, UX design, and customer-facing teams to translate real-world networking infrastructure needs into clear product requirements. Your work will ensure Taara’s connectivity solutions meet the performance, availability, and scalability expectations of data center environments. This work is suited for someone comfortable working with data center topologies, multiple connectivity needs in data centers - rack to rack, intrarack, building to building, and data center to point of presence, network constraints, and complex deployment environments.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in product management for infrastructure, networking, or technical systems.
2+ years in data center environment
1+ years of experience building 0-1 products
Experience translating complex technical needs into clear product requirements and priorities.
Understanding connectivity needs within data center environments, network infrastructure, or large-scale technical systems.
Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, UX design, and customer-facing teams.
Experience using data, operational signals, and user feedback to inform product decisions.
Strong communication skills and the ability to explain product decisions to diverse stakeholders.
Ability to work in the Sunnyvale office at least 3 days per week.

Nice To Haves

Background in networking, telecom, cloud infrastructure, or related domain a plus.
Comfort operating in technically complex, ambiguous environments.
Familiarity with Optical circuit switching
Knowledge of Optical networking
Knowledge of existing high speed data center inter-connect technologies like Infini Band

Responsibilities

Own the product definition and evolution of products supporting data center and infrastructure connectivity use cases.
Translate customer, partner, and internal needs into clear product requirements, workflows, and roadmaps.
Define product requirements related to capacity, latency, availability, redundancy, scalability, and operational constraints.
Partner closely with engineering to balance technical feasibility, product performance, and deployment realities.
Define and track key product metrics related to performance, availability, adoption, and operational effectiveness.
Incorporate learnings from deployments and live environments into ongoing iteration and continuous improvement.