Crusoe
Senior Product Manager, Orchestration
San Francisco, CA - US · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$170k-$205kDetected 10 hours ago
Node.jsDistributed SystemsCloud PlatformsKubernetesMachine LearningProduct ManagementCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- Your scope will include Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, control-plane capabilities, node pools and node health, managed add-ons, workload scheduling, Slurm on Kubernetes, or the APIs and interfaces customers use to operate large-scale AI infrastructure.
- This is a deeply technical and hands-on product role.
- Success in this role means raising the quality of both the product and the decisions behind it.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with engineers throughout discovery, design, implementation, and validation to resolve ambiguity and shape high-quality solutions.
- As a Senior Product Manager for Orchestration, you will own major product areas within Crusoe's Managed Orchestration portfolio.
- You will have meaningful end-to-end ownership of the areas within your scope, from problem definition and product design through launch, validation, adoption, and continued improvement.
- Own Major Orchestration Product Areas: Take end-to-end ownership of substantial product surfaces, including their roadmap, outcomes, priorities, quality, and continued improvement.
- Develop Durable Technical Product Designs: Turn complex infrastructure problems into clear requirements and coherent system behavior, including APIs, lifecycle states, failure handling, upgrades, and customer controls.
- Partner Closely With Engineering: Work directly with engineers throughout discovery, design, implementation, and validation to resolve ambiguity and shape high-quality solutions.
Requirements
- Significant experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, workload orchestration, or related technologies.
- Five or more years of experience owning complex technical products or infrastructure initiatives from definition through delivery and iteration.
- The ability to reason through APIs, lifecycle states, failure modes, upgrades, operational workflows, and dependencies across distributed systems.
- The ability to balance customer value, reliability, engineering cost, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability when making product decisions.
- You have experience with HPC environments, Slurm or similar workload managers, specialized networking, or large accelerator clusters.
- You have operated or supported production infrastructure and understand the impact of product decisions on reliability, upgrades, debugging, and incident response.
- Strong Technical Fluency: Significant experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, workload orchestration, or related technologies.
- Technical Product Management Experience: Five or more years of experience owning complex technical products or infrastructure initiatives from definition through delivery and iteration.
- Systems Thinking and Attention to Detail: The ability to reason through APIs, lifecycle states, failure modes, upgrades, operational workflows, and dependencies across distributed systems.
- Strong Product Judgment: The ability to balance customer value, reliability, engineering cost, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability when making product decisions.
Skills
- Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
- The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck.
Compensation
- Compensation will be paid in the range of $170,000 to $205,000.
- Compensation to be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Company info
- Work with customers and internal teams to identify underlying problems and translate them into broadly useful, technically sound product improvements.
- Understand Customers and Operators: Work with customers and internal teams to identify underlying problems and translate them into broadly useful, technically sound product improvements.
- You will define detailed behavior, examine edge cases and failure modes, make thoughtful product trade-offs, and ensure that what we ship works well for customers in practice, not only in a design document.
- You will combine technical depth, customer understanding, strong product judgment, and disciplined execution to build orchestration capabilities that customers can depend on for their most demanding AI workloads.
Equal opportunity
- Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran st
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