Senior Product Manager (vMetal)

vCluster Labs • New York, NY

27d • $170,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Product Manager for vMetal at vCluster Labs, you'll help own the systems that discover, provision, configure, and manage physical hardware, turning racks of bare metal into a programmable platform for AI Cloud operators and hyperscalers to build tenant clusters on top of. You'll work directly with the Head of Product and engineering leadership on the tradeoffs that shape where vMetal goes next.

Requirements

• 5+ years in product management in cloud infrastructure, bare metal, or GPU/HPC platforms.
• Shipped something other engineers depend on in production.
• Understand bare metal provisioning, out-of-band server management (Redfish, IPMI), and PXE boot well enough to make informed product tradeoffs.
• Comfortable with Kubernetes fundamentals, pods, controllers, CRDs, and the operator pattern, and can hold a credible technical conversation with engineers.
• Sat across from platform engineers and architects, and are comfortable in that conversation.

Nice To Haves

• Built a KaaS offering at a cloud provider, vendor, or large internal platform team.
• Platform PM experience building IDPs that abstract infrastructure complexity for developer teams.
• Adaptable to startup pace and change.

Responsibilities

• Align on business priorities and technical direction for vMetal, and translate that into specs engineering can execute against.
• Work directly with the Head of Product and engineering leadership on the tradeoffs that determine where vMetal goes next.
• Run alpha and beta builds yourself, including against real bare metal hardware where possible. Catch integration issues before customers do.
• Engage directly with platform engineers at AI Cloud operators and hyperscalers running bare metal at scale.
• Track the bare metal and GPU infrastructure ecosystem. Sharpen the narrative for technical buyers and partner with GTM on messaging that lands.
• Bridge engineering, sales, and marketing so what we ship matches how we sell and support it.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
• Flexible working schedule.
• Workplace flexibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed