Product Manager

<br><strong>Your mission</strong><p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">To support our growing team, we are looking for an experienced Product Manager. In this role, you will take a strategic and hands-on approach to defining the product vision and expanding our product suite. You will develop frameworks and processes that bring together insights from engineers, executives, and customers to strengthen our cutting-edge, easy-to-use, high-performance AI infrastructure design and management platform.</p><ul style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;"><li>Develop the multi-year vision and roadmap for our AI Scheduling product, from job queuing and resource allocation to latency optimization and reliability at scale.</li><li>Collaborate closely with engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to define and deliver capabilities that enterprise and developer customers rely on every day.</li><li>Engage directly with customers to identify unmet needs, validate product direction, and turn complex or conflicting input into clear product decisions.</li><li>Monitor the competitive and technical landscape, including distributed systems, orchestration tools, and AI workload patterns, and translate relevant trends into roadmap implications.</li><li>Work with leadership to support product launches, roadmap reviews, and the broader product narrative.</li><li>Create tight feedback loops between customers and engineering to continuously improve performance, usability, and reliability.</li><li>Support go-to-market activities by contributing to product messaging, documentation, and technical content, including blogs, white papers, and presentations.</li></ul></p><br><strong>Your profile</strong><p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong> This role is open to candidates based in Germany who are able to work in a hybrid setup from our Heidelberg office, or candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area. </strong></p><ul style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><li>5+ years of product management experience, including significant ownership of infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling products.</li><li>BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on technical experience.</li><li>Proven track record of defining and delivering multi-year product roadmaps, not just quarterly plans.</li><li>Product management experience with cloud or cluster management technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Slurm, VMware, or similar platforms.</li><li>Working understanding of machine learning systems, including compute hardware, communication layers, and AI software toolchains.</li><li>Working understanding of common machine learning software, including models, inference engines, orchestration tools, and typical user and developer workflows.</li><li>Comfortable operating in ambiguity and able to make clear decisions with incomplete information.</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, executives, and enterprise customers.</li><li>Comfortable working as an individual contributor, with impact driven by insight, ownership, and cross-functional influence rather than team size.</li><li>Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams without losing quality or momentum.</li><li>Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% between our German and US locations, as business needs require.</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>Nice to have</strong></p><ul style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><li>Experience in an AI/ML infrastructure or MLOps environment, including an understanding of how scheduling supports training, inference, and evaluation pipelines.</li><li>A portfolio of technical writing, product specifications, or public content demonstrating an ability to communicate complex topics clearly.</li><li>Measurable outcomes you can point to and own, such as shipped products, adoption metrics, customer wins, or performance improvements.</li></ul></p><br><strong>Why us?</strong><p><ul><li><strong>Build something big:</strong> Help build and scale a fast-growing AI infrastructure startup.</li><li><strong>Pay &amp; perks:</strong> Competitive compensation, performance-based incentives, a subsidized Deutschlandticket, and access to a discount portal.</li><li><strong>Work your way:</strong> Flexible hours with hybrid and remote-friendly options.</li><li><strong>Fast lanes, no red tape:</strong> Flat hierarchies and rapid decision-making mean ideas move quickly.</li><li><strong>Global team:</strong> Work with a diverse, international team across Germany and the US.</li><li><strong>Modern offices:</strong> Well-equipped locations near Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof and in the San Francisco Bay Area.</li><li><strong>Top setup:</strong> Your choice of high-quality hardware and equipment.</li></ul></p><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>