Senior Product Manager, Orchestration

Crusoe•Sunnyvale, CA

2d•$170,000 - $205,000

About The Position

Crusoe is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Orchestration to own major product areas within Crusoe’s Managed Orchestration portfolio. This role involves Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, control-plane capabilities, node pools and node health, managed add-ons, workload scheduling, Slurm on Kubernetes, and the APIs/interfaces customers use to operate large-scale AI infrastructure. The position offers end-to-end ownership from problem definition and product design through launch, validation, adoption, and continuous improvement. This is a deeply technical and hands-on role requiring close collaboration with engineering to translate complex infrastructure challenges into durable product designs, focusing on detailed behavior, edge cases, failure modes, and practical customer application. Success hinges on technical depth, customer understanding, strong product judgment, and disciplined execution to build reliable orchestration capabilities for demanding AI workloads.

Requirements

AI and Machine Learning Infrastructure: You understand how training, fine-tuning, inference, checkpointing, and GPU-intensive workloads interact with orchestration systems.
Strong Technical Fluency: Significant experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, workload orchestration, or related technologies.
Technical Product Management Experience: Five or more years of experience owning complex technical products or infrastructure initiatives from definition through delivery and iteration.
Systems Thinking and Attention to Detail: The ability to reason through APIs, lifecycle states, failure modes, upgrades, operational workflows, and dependencies across distributed systems.
Strong Product Judgment: The ability to balance customer value, reliability, engineering cost, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability when making product decisions.
Ownership and Execution: A track record of independently driving ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives to clear decisions and high-quality outcomes.
Clear Communication and Collaboration: The ability to work closely with engineers, document decisions precisely, and create alignment across technical and nontechnical teams.

Nice To Haves

High-Performance Computing: You have experience with HPC environments, Slurm or similar workload managers, specialized networking, or large accelerator clusters.
Infrastructure Operations: You have operated or supported production infrastructure and understand the impact of product decisions on reliability, upgrades, debugging, and incident response.
Builder Orientation: You enjoy using infrastructure products directly, examining APIs, and experimenting with systems to develop grounded product opinions.

Responsibilities

Own Major Orchestration Product Areas: Take end-to-end ownership of substantial product surfaces, including their roadmap, outcomes, priorities, quality, and continued improvement.
Develop Durable Technical Product Designs: Turn complex infrastructure problems into clear requirements and coherent system behavior, including APIs, lifecycle states, failure handling, upgrades, and customer controls.
Partner Closely With Engineering: Work directly with engineers throughout discovery, design, implementation, and validation to resolve ambiguity and shape high-quality solutions.
Establish a High Product-Quality Bar: Pressure-test designs, evaluate working software, examine edge cases and failure modes, and ensure the product is ready before broad customer release.
Understand Customers and Operators: Work with customers and internal teams to identify underlying problems and translate them into broadly useful, technically sound product improvements.
Make Disciplined Product Investments: Prioritize work based on customer value, reliability, differentiation, engineering cost, and operational burden, then measure whether those investments delivered the intended results.
Coordinate Across the Cloud Platform: Establish clear interfaces and responsibilities across infrastructure, networking, storage, identity, observability, capacity, and workload teams.
Communicate Clearly: Produce precise requirements and decision documents, and explain technical trade-offs and business implications to diverse stakeholders.