Director, Product Management

The role

You will define and execute the product vision for Runpod's AI cloud platform. You will lead a product and design organization and manage the end-to-end product lifecycle for core offerings like serverless endpoints and GPU instances.

What you will do

• Define the long-term vision and short-term roadmap for the product suite.
• Act as the voice of the user by spending time with ML engineers and enterprise customers.
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of product managers, UI/UX designers, and technical writers.
• Partner with Infrastructure and Engineering directors to ensure technical feasibility and reliability.
• Define pricing models for compute, storage, and serverless usage.
• Guide product marketing on positioning and launch strategies.
• Establish a metrics-driven approach to prioritize the backlog.
• Champion a world-class developer experience for the console, CLI, APIs, and SDKs.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience
• 3+ years in a leadership role managing other PMs and designers in a hyper-growth environment
• Deep experience building SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or developer-facing products
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, GPUs, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and AI/ML workflows
• Ability to engage with engineering and infrastructure leaders regarding backend architectures, API design, and distributed systems
• Demonstrated ability to turn complex problems into shipped products
• Experience building culture and alignment across distributed technical and commercial teams
• Exceptional written and verbal communication
• Successful completion of a background check
• Must be eligible to work in the United States

Nice to have

• Direct experience launching products specifically for ML Ops, model training, serverless inference, or LLM deployment
• A strong public presence or active engagement with the AI/ML and open-source developer communities
• Previous experience as a software engineer, ML engineer, or data scientist

Benefits

• Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
• Generous medical, dental & vision plans
• Flexible PTO
• $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend

Before you apply

• Successful completion of a background check
• Currently unable to sponsor employment visas

About the company

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud used by more than one million developers to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI. It is a small, remote-first team.