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Product Manager - HPC & Software (Infrastructure & Storage)
Hybrid (2 days on-site)
Locations: San Francisco Bay Area, Houston, Colorado, Minnesota
Job Description:
AI & HPC Software & Hardware Product Manager focused on defining and delivering software capabilities for firmware lifecycle management, rack-scale operations, and power/thermal optimization across HPC and AI infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and drive the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for AI and HPC software management capabilities, including firmware, rack, and power management domains.
- Define customer value propositions and business outcomes for reliability, uptime, energy efficiency, and operational simplicity across deployments.
- Translate market and field requirements into product requirements for firmware lifecycle workflows (upgrade orchestration, rollback, policy controls, compliance tracking).
- Own rack management software requirements spanning rack-level health, telemetry, inventory state, fault isolation, and automated remediation workflows.
- Define and prioritize power management capabilities, including power capping, thermal-aware scheduling, workload-to-power policy alignment, and datacenter efficiency reporting.
- Partner with engineering to align software architecture and release sequencing across iLO, system firmware, rack management controllers, and cluster management platforms.
- Collaborate with PMM, sales, and solutions teams to create technical enablement content, reference architectures, and customer-facing narratives for power-efficient AI/HPC operations.
- Drive lifecycle governance across plan, build, launch, sustain, and end-of-life phases, ensuring roadmap clarity and measurable adoption outcomes.
- Establish KPI frameworks for product success, including firmware compliance rates, mean time to recovery, rack-level incident reduction, and power utilization effectiveness indicators.
Education & Experience required:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, or related field of study.
- MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.
- 8 years of work experience in software product management, systems management, infrastructure software, or a related field
Knowledge & Skills:
- Deep knowledge of firmware and platform software stacks (BMC, BIOS/UEFI, device firmware update flows, and lifecycle policy controls).
- Strong understanding of rack-scale infrastructure management, including telemetry pipelines, alerting systems, inventory models, and remediation operations.
- Expertise in power and thermal management concepts for AI and HPC systems, including performance-per-watt trade-offs and operational guardrails.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills to drive alignment across engineering, operations, support, sales, and marketing teams.
- Ability to convert complex technical capabilities into clear product requirements, release plans, and customer value narratives.
- Strong analytical and commercial acumen, including KPI design, business case development, and prioritization under constrained resources.