Principal Product Manager - Nvidia Technology Partnerships

The role

This role manages the strategic technology partnership between Lambda and NVIDIA. You will track NVIDIA's hardware and software roadmap to decide which technologies Lambda should adopt and productize.

What you will do

• Track the NVIDIA hardware and software roadmap.
• Decide which NVIDIA technologies Lambda should productize into GPU instances, clusters, and private cloud deployments.
• Turn adopted technologies into products including packaging, pricing, and launch criteria.
• Act as the single point of contact for both companies.
• Route incoming requests to the correct product and engineering owners.
• Own the product side of joint engineering programs, including scope and definition of done.
• Work with hardware product managers on GPU generation transitions.
• Write requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering.
• Communicate clearly when Lambda will not adopt certain technologies.
• Partner with product managers for compute, storage, networking, orchestration, and security.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including time at a cloud provider, systems company, or silicon vendor.
• Owned a strategic technology partnership where two companies built things together.
• Can read a silicon and systems roadmap and judge its impact on a cloud business.
• Understand GPU platforms well enough to hold technical conversations with designers.
• Have made adoption decisions with meaningful capital and engineering cost behind them.
• Have run a program where engineers from an outside company and internal engineers landed the same thing at the same time.
• Can say no to a powerful counterpart and keep the relationship.
• Able to define iterative plans that move an organization towards a desired outcome.
• Communicate plainly, write well, and make decisions easier for others.

Nice to have

• Experience with GPU or accelerator platforms, including qualification into production.
• Experience evaluating a silicon or systems vendor's pre-release technology.
• Experience treating data center power, cooling, or density as product inputs.
• Experience evaluating infrastructure software for adoption.
• Experience running a co-development program with an external partner.
• Prior work at a GPU cloud, hyperscaler, or AI infrastructure company.

Benefits

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan

About the company

Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers, including AI researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers. Founded in 2012, the company has 500+ employees and is backed by investors including NVIDIA.