Location: Palo Alto, CA, United States

Ignite your passion for product innovation by leading customer-centric development, inspiring solutions, and shaping the future with your strategic vision and influence.

As a Product Director in AI Infrastructure Platforms, you lead innovation through the development of products and features that delight customers. As a leader on the team, you leverage your advanced capabilities to challenge traditional approaches, remove barriers to success, and foster a culture of continuous innovation that helps inspire cross-functional teams create groundbreaking solutions that address customer needs.  you will set the vision, strategy, and direction for the platform's inferencing product area. The platform is an integrated suite of specialized AI infrastructure for model training, inference, and experimentationconsisting of compute, storage, network, and management serviceswith offerings that span public cloud, on-premises, Neo Cloud, and edge. You will define and deliver the go-to-market strategy, drive platform adoption across lines of business, and advance product capabilities toward an enterprise-scale AI Factory.  Success in this role requires navigating rapid AI hardware evolution, complex multi-vendor ecosystems, and the regulatory demands of a highly regulated global financial institutiondelivering infrastructure for high-value AI use cases.

 

Job responsibilities 

• Oversees the product roadmap, vision, development, execution, risk management, and business growth targets 
• Leads the entire product life cycle through planning, execution, and future development by continuously adapting, developing new products and methodologies, managing risks, and achieving business targets like cost, features, reusability, and reliability to support growth 
• Coaches and mentors the product team on best practices, such as solution generation, market research, storyboarding, mind-mapping, prototyping methods, product adoption strategies, and product delivery, enabling them to effectively deliver on objectives 
• Owns product performance and is accountable for investing in enhancements to achieve business objectives 
• Monitors market trends, conducts competitive analysis, and identifies opportunities for product differentiation 
• Own the product area vision, strategy, roadmap, execution, and business growth targetswith a strategic mandate to mature the platform toward an enterprise-scale AI Factory
• Maximize returns on hardware capital investments spanning compute, accelerator, storage, networking, and orchestration layerswith direct accountability for driving platform adoption and utilization to realize the full value of the firm's AI infrastructure commitments
• Serve as the key decision-maker for product prioritization and strategic direction across the AI Infrastructure product areabalancing competing demands, investment tradeoffs, and delivery sequencing across multiple products
• Cultivate and manage senior stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment on vision, strategy, roadmap, and scope across the AI Infrastructure product area
• Analyze market trends and interpret competitive signals to inform investment decisions, drive capital allocation, and direct vendor strategy across hyperscale providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP), Neo Clouds (e.g. CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, Fluidstack, Runpod), edge platforms (e.g. Nvidia Jetson, HPE Edgeline, Dell Edge Gateway), and serverless GPU providers (e.g. Baseten, Together AI, Fireworks, Nebius)
• Identify and prioritize target market segments, qualify demand signals, and align product capabilities to address unmet customer needs across lines of business

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications 
• Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics 
• Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management 
• Experience driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions 
• Extensive experience in high-performance compute, GPU-accelerated, data center, or AI infrastructure
• Deep knowledge of the AI infrastructure stack across compute, accelerators, high-speed interconnects, networking, storage, and orchestration layerswith experience across technologies such as Nvidia GPUs (B200, H100, A100), InfiniBand, Spectrum-X, Arista, DataDirect Networks (DDN), VAST Data, and Kubernetes
• Understanding of how the AI infrastructure stack is integrated within AI Factory reference architectures and how architectural decisions impact performance, cost, and scalability at enterprise scale
• Drive alignment across engineering, security, compliance, and lines of business to deliver capabilities at business speed without compromising security or regulatory compliance
• Build and clearly communicate AI infrastructure investment cases, including TCO analysis, depreciation planning, and ROI modeling across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployments
• Build consensus and secure commitment to action across senior leadership on high-stakes technology and investment decisions
• Position AI infrastructure as a strategic enterprise asset, with a credible investment thesis and product roadmap progressing toward AI Factoryscale operations

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Recognized thought leader within a related field 
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; MBA or equivalent preferred
• Background in technical product management within the AI infrastructure ecosystemincluding infrastructure vendors, cloud providers, and system integratorsor within highly regulated industries such as financial services or healthcare

Define the product roadmap, inspire a high-performing team, and monitor market trends to shape product innovations.