Cornelis Networks, Inc.

Cornelis Networks, Inc.

Director of Product Management - High Performance Networking

San Francisco, California, United States · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
Product ManagementProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementPRDsBusiness DevelopmentSupply ChainLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • Cornelis Networks is seeking a results driven Director of Product Management - High Performance Networking to define, champion, and proliferate market leading networking solutions for the AI and HPC market.
  • This role is expected to operate in an AI-enabled product management environment, using modern tools to scale impact, accelerate insight, and improve execution velocity.

Responsibilities

  • Drive a clear understanding of customer technical and business requirements to establish targets and priorities that define a successful product roadmap.
  • Develop strong product value propositions that address customer pain points and position us relative to competing solutions to ensure clear market differentiation.
  • Serve as the domain knowledge expert in HPC, AI, and networking to drive business-centric product decisions that maximize the efficiency of GPU, CPU, and accelerator-based clusters.
  • Own the product strategy, positioning, roadmap, design win plans for OEMs and System Integrators, as well as customer roadmap communications to ensure a successful end-to-end lifecycle.
  • Build and improve product business cases in collaboration with key stakeholders to optimize the portfolio and support financial performance goals.
  • Develop product phase-gate review materials that capture strategic and tactical decision points, including roadmap date changes-and drive them to closure.
  • Maintain the "source of truth" for roadmap commitments to manage market expectations and internal investment priorities.
  • Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Business Development teams on collateral to drive OEM design wins, end customer product adoption, and revenue success.
  • You will also develop and iterate on the product value proposition-translating workload and system requirements into product requirements that drive design wins and customer adoption.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of direct product management ownership for high p erformance networking hardware, specifically NICs and/or Ethernet/InfiniBand switches, delivering products into production data center environments.
  • 5+ years' experience supporting networking hardware with a deep understanding of networking interconnects including: InfiniBand, RoCE, Omni-Path, Ethernet.

Nice to have

  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, along with strong organizational, interpersonal, collaboration, and stakeholder management abilities.
  • Demonstrated ownership of hardware PRDs and hands-on experience driving phase-gates from concept, to plan, development, launch, sustaining production, and EOL.
  • Experience creating and maintaining hardware-focused business cases (price-performance, TCO, BOM/cost models) to influence pricing and product decisions.
  • Experience producing technical checklists, sales training, and customer-ready integration guides to accelerate product adoption.
  • Familiarity with how datacenter workload characteristics (large-scale model training, inference at scale, HPC) translate to hardware value propositions.
  • Cornelis Networks does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
  • We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

Compensation

  • We offer a competitive compensation package that includes equity, cash, and incentives, along with health and retirement benefits.

Benefits

  • We offer a competitive compensation package that includes equity, cash, and incentives, along with health and retirement benefits.
  • Our dynamic, flexible work environment provides the opportunity to collaborate with some of the most influential names in the semiconductor industry.
  • At Cornelis Networks your base salary is only one component of your comprehensive total rewards package.
  • Depending on your role, you may also be eligible for performance-based incentives, including an annual bonus or sales incentives.
  • We also offer generous paid holidays, 401(k) with company match, and Open Time Off (OTO) for regular full-time exempt employees.
  • Other paid time off benefits include sick time, bonding leave, and pregnancy disability leave.
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