Senior Director, Product Management - Platform

The role

You will lead the Platform product group as a player-coach. You will hire and manage three product managers for Security, Observability, and Billing while personally owning the platform product strategy.

What you will do

• Hire, manage, and develop the Security, Observability, and Billing product managers
• Define and own the platform roadmap end to end
• Personally own platform product strategy while the team is being hired
• Deliver horizontal capabilities for On-Demand GPU Instances, 1-Click Clusters, and the Lambda Cloud API
• Own the product surface for usage-based GPU compute billing
• Shape the identity and security surfaces for enterprise ML teams
• Partner with platform engineering leadership on sequencing, tradeoffs, and delivery
• Turn fleet telemetry, usage patterns, and customer signal into clear build decisions

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including experience shipping platform or infrastructure products that other teams build on
• 3+ years hiring and managing product managers, or have formally led product managers as a first-line manager
• Turn ambiguous data and customer signal into a clear decision about what to build next
• Win engineers, designers, executives, and customers over to your ideas without relying on organizational authority
• Work with the right people to get products launched, then measure and iterate
• Comfortable operating as a player-coach, owning strategy directly while building the team
• Can go deep with engineering leadership on technical tradeoffs and hold your own in architecture discussions
• Communicate in writing clearly enough that an executive can act on your document without a follow-up meeting
• Able to define iterative plans that move an organization from the current state towards the desired outcome

Nice to have

• Have shipped metering, billing, or monetization systems for usage-based products
• Have built identity, security, or compliance product surfaces for enterprise customers
• Have built telemetry or observability products, or worked deeply with tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Have a background in GPU compute, high performance computing, or AI infrastructure
• Have built a product team from zero, including writing the job descriptions and running the hiring loops

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. Founded in 2012, the company has 500+ employees and is growing fast.