What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Product Manager, Marketplace position at Vast.ai?
About Us
Vast.ai's cloud powers AI projects and businesses all over the world. We are democratizing and decentralizing AI computing—reshaping our future for the benefit of humanity.
We are a growing and highly motivated team dedicated to an ambitious technical plan. Our structure is flat, our ambitions are out-sized, and leadership is earned by shipping excellence.
About The Role
Vast.ai is seeking a Technical Product Manager to drive the product at the heart of our two-sided GPU cloud marketplace: how GPUs get listed, priced, found, rented, and trusted.
The Scale: With over 20k GPUs, our Cloud platform powers thousands of bleeding-edge AI training runs and critical production workloads for 120k developers all over the planet. This is a product with real scale, real data, and real users from day one. The work you ship moves tangible revenue in weeks, not quarters.
The Challenge: We don't own the GPUs. Thousands of independent hosts price and operate them, and no two machines are alike. Your job is to make that heterogeneous, decentralized supply feel like a top-tier cloud that just works: the right GPU at the right price, for every workload.
What You'll Own
You'll find the highest-impact problems in the marketplace, turn them into crisp specs, and drive them through engineering and out the door. You'll own the metrics that prove it worked: time-to-first-rental, rental reliability, revenue retention. Initial focus areas:
$150,000–$210,000 base depending on experience, plus equity. We're profitable, venture-backed, and growing, so the equity is a stake in a real company with a real valuation, not a lottery ticket.
Benefits
Compensation Range: $150K - $210K
Vast.ai's cloud powers AI projects and businesses all over the world. We are democratizing and decentralizing AI computing—reshaping our future for the benefit of humanity.
We are a growing and highly motivated team dedicated to an ambitious technical plan. Our structure is flat, our ambitions are out-sized, and leadership is earned by shipping excellence.
About The Role
Vast.ai is seeking a Technical Product Manager to drive the product at the heart of our two-sided GPU cloud marketplace: how GPUs get listed, priced, found, rented, and trusted.
The Scale: With over 20k GPUs, our Cloud platform powers thousands of bleeding-edge AI training runs and critical production workloads for 120k developers all over the planet. This is a product with real scale, real data, and real users from day one. The work you ship moves tangible revenue in weeks, not quarters.
The Challenge: We don't own the GPUs. Thousands of independent hosts price and operate them, and no two machines are alike. Your job is to make that heterogeneous, decentralized supply feel like a top-tier cloud that just works: the right GPU at the right price, for every workload.
What You'll Own
You'll find the highest-impact problems in the marketplace, turn them into crisp specs, and drive them through engineering and out the door. You'll own the metrics that prove it worked: time-to-first-rental, rental reliability, revenue retention. Initial focus areas:
- Search & discovery. Help customers find the right GPU at the right price, and give hosts the tools to price and position supply.
- Reliability & trust. Give customers rentals that just work, and give hosts the signals and tools to keep their machines healthy and verified.
- Onboarding & activation. Help new customers reach their first successful rental, and help new hosts stand up their first GPU listing.
- Launch & enablement. Nothing ships silently: own release comms and docs, and get support, sales, and marketing behind every release.
- 3 years of experience as a product manager, preferably for a highly technical or developer-centric product
- Preferred: 3 years of experience as a software engineer
- Industry experience in one or more of the following areas: software infrastructure, developer tooling (APIs, SDKs, CLIs), AI/ML, cloud computing, GPUs, or two-sided marketplaces
- Experience at a fast-paced startup or rapid growth team
- AI-native. You work with AI agents every day, and you want to build the marketplace the AI era runs on.
- Deeply technical. You speak fluent infrastructure — Linux, Docker, VRAM, APIs — with the engineers who build it.
- Marketplace-minded. You reason about liquidity, incentives, and trust as naturally as features and funnels.
- Biased toward action. You'd rather ship the fix today than present the plan next week.
- Initial screening (virtual)
- Deep dive on the role and your experience (virtual)
- Live product assessment (virtual)
- In person panel interview and product assessment (on-site)
$150,000–$210,000 base depending on experience, plus equity. We're profitable, venture-backed, and growing, so the equity is a stake in a real company with a real valuation, not a lottery ticket.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Meaningful early-stage equity
- Onsite meals, snacks, and close collaboration with founders/tech leaders
- Ambitious, fast-paced startup culture where initiative is rewarded
- Ample AI agent budget
Compensation Range: $150K - $210K
Salary : $150,000 - $210,000