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Inferact, founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, is building the world's AI inference engine. The company sits at the intersection of models and hardware, positioned to accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster.
You will own product marketing for vLLM and Inferact across launches, positioning, technical narratives, partner announcements, and sales enablement. This is a hands-on role requiring the ability to translate complex AI infrastructure into credible developer-facing messaging, work directly with engineers and ecosystem partners, and build repeatable launch systems that scale.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own day-0 launch communications, product positioning, benchmark narratives, and customer proof
- Become the single owner for launch communications across vLLM and Inferact, including blog, social copy, partner coordination, and internal readiness checklists
- Ship launches as primary author and publish launch playbooks that engineers and partners can follow independently
- Own positioning and messaging, including personas, competitive talk tracks, and website product pages
- Own partnership announcements with ecosystem partners such as Google, AMD, and NVIDIA from messaging through launch day
- Own the sales collateral kit and standard talk templates; run enablement for engineers presenting externally
- Own product messaging across vLLM and Inferact, including technical product breakdowns, benefits, customer case studies, and supporting GTM materials
- Present a 2027 product marketing plan covering launch tiers, benchmark program, case study pipeline, and partner relationships
- Bring market and customer input into product roadmap, pricing, and packaging discussions
- Create a structured feedback loop between Marketing and Sales with Product and Engineering
- Build and operationalize repeatable marketing processes for launching content, covering intake, messaging, review, distribution, partner amplification, and post-launch measurement
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience as an engineer or developer
- Experience owning product marketing or developer relations for open-source software, LLM infrastructure, AI infrastructure, or developer tools
- Strong product marketing fundamentals across positioning, messaging, audience definition, narrative development, launches, and practical GTM execution
- Ability to write and edit technical launch content that is credible with developers, ML engineers, and infrastructure engineers
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, leadership, design, sales, and external partners
- Hands-on execution mindset with ability to build launch systems, templates, and playbooks in a fast-moving startup environment
Preferred qualifications:
- Deep familiarity with AI infrastructure, model serving, vLLM, open-source infrastructure, cloud platforms, or GPU ecosystems
- Experience owning benchmark narratives, technical product pages, customer case studies, or developer-facing sales enablement
- Experience leading joint GTM with cloud providers, hardware vendors, model companies, or open-source ecosystem partners
- Track record building product marketing programs from 0 to 1 and turning reactive launch work into a proactive roadmap
- Direct experience marketing inference, model serving, or other performance-sensitive AI infrastructure
- Experience launching open-source projects or commercial products built around an open-source ecosystem
- Ability to create lightweight technical assets, landing pages, demos, or workflows using modern AI and no-code tools
