Group Product Manager, Platform (Manager)
$314,000–$407,000 year
HybridSan Francisco, California, United States or Bellevue, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Lead Lambda's Platform product group by hiring and managing three product managers for Security, Observability, and Billing while personally owning the end-to-end roadmap and strategy. Define horizontal capabilities for On-Demand GPU Instances, 1-Click Clusters, and the Lambda Cloud API that enterprise customers trust. Own usage-based billing surfaces from per-minute on-demand to committed cluster contracts, and shape identity and security surfaces for ML teams. Partner with platform engineering leadership on sequencing and tradeoffs, turning fleet telemetry and customer signal into clear build decisions. Communicate executive-ready documents that drive action without follow-ups. This role requires 4 days in Bellevue or San Francisco, with Tuesday as the designated work-from-home day.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of product management experience
- Experience shipping platform or infrastructure products that other teams build on
- 3+ years hiring and managing product managers
- Experience formally leading product managers as a first-line manager
- Ability to turn ambiguous data and customer signal into a clear decision about what to build next
- Demonstrated ability to win engineers, designers, executives, and customers over to ideas without relying on organizational authority
- Ability to work with the right people to get products launched, then measure and iterate
- Comfort operating as a player-coach, owning strategy directly while building the team that will own it after
- Ability to go deep with engineering leadership on technical tradeoffs and hold own in architecture discussions
- Ability to communicate in writing clearly enough that an executive can act on document without a follow-up meeting
- Ability to define iterative plans that move an organization from current state towards desired outcome
- Presence in Bellevue or San Francisco office location 4 days per week
Desired Qualifications
- Experience shipping metering, billing, or monetization systems for usage-based products
- Experience built identity, security, or compliance product surfaces for enterprise customers
- Experience built telemetry or observability products, or worked deeply with tools like Prometheus and Grafana
- Background in GPU compute, high performance computing, or AI infrastructure
- Experience built a product team from zero, including writing the job descriptions and running the hiring loops
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