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vCluster Labs is seeking a Staff Product Manager for vMetal, a core platform component that discovers, provisions, configures, and manages physical hardware for AI Cloud operators and hyperscalers. This role owns the systems that transform bare metal infrastructure into a programmable platform, working directly with the Head of Product and engineering leadership to shape the product's strategic direction.
Key Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure Direction: Align business priorities and technical direction for vMetal, translating strategy into executable engineering specs. You'll guide the product from beta through early releases, shaping its evolution.
- Product Leadership Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Head of Product and engineering leadership on vMetal's roadmap and technical decisions.
- Hands-on Validation: Run alpha and beta builds yourself, including against real bare metal hardware where feasible, to catch integration issues before customers encounter them.
- Customer Intelligence: Engage directly with platform engineers and architects at AI Cloud operators and hyperscalers running bare metal infrastructure at scale.
- Market Positioning: Track the bare metal and GPU infrastructure ecosystem, sharpen messaging for technical buyers, and partner with GTM on positioning that resonates.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Bridge engineering, sales, and marketing to ensure product delivery aligns with how the company sells and supports it.
About vCluster Labs:
vCluster Labs is the #1 platform for AI infrastructure, trusted by the world's fastest-growing AI cloud builders. The company is venture-backed, having raised over $28M from top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower) with a distributed, remote-first team, vCluster Labs powers over 100,000 GPUs and 1 million CPUs across 50+ AI clouds and Fortune 500 companies. The team comprises 40+ infrastructure engineers who build alongside customers. The company is behind vCluster, open-source technology for tenant isolation on Kubernetes with 11,000+ GitHub stars and 40M+ tenant clusters created since 2021.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, bare metal, or GPU/HPC platforms (backgrounds beyond traditional product management are welcome).
- Infrastructure Fluency: Understanding of bare metal provisioning, out-of-band server management (Redfish, IPMI), and PXE boot sufficient to make informed product tradeoffs.
- Kubernetes Familiarity: Comfortable with Kubernetes fundamentals, pods, controllers, CRDs, and the operator pattern; able to hold credible technical conversations with engineers.
- Customer-Facing Infrastructure Experience: Experience engaging with platform engineers and architects in infrastructure contexts.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS) platform building experience at a cloud provider, vendor, or large internal platform team.
- Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) experience building abstractions over infrastructure complexity.
- Startup growth adaptability and comfort with rapid change.
