Senior Product Manager

The next trillion-dollar company will be built by a small team using AI. Runpod is the leading platform to build run and scale AI models. In 78 seconds a developer can deploy an AI model to any of our 37 global data centers. More than 500000 developers have chosen Runpod to power AI applications that will create new experiences for billions of people.

Runpod operates at the center of one of the fastest-growing markets in technology: AI infrastructure. As demand for AI compute continues to accelerate customers need flexible reliable and cost-effective ways to deploy manage and scale AI workloads across increasingly complex infrastructure environments.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead core product initiatives that expand Runpod’s market opportunity deepen customer adoption and drive measurable business growth. This role is ideal for a product leader who combines strong customer empathy analytical rigor commercial judgment and the ability to translate market insight into products that generate revenue improve customer outcomes and strengthen Runpod’s competitive position.

You will own the strategy roadmap and business performance of a high-impact product area within Runpod’s AI platform. You will define where we compete how we win which customers we serve and how product investments translate into adoption retention revenue and long-term platform value.

This is a highly cross-functional role working closely with Engineering Design Sales Marketing Customer Success Infrastructure Finance Partnerships and company leadership. Success in this role will be measured not only by shipping product but by your ability to make high-quality decisions using data build conviction across the organization and deliver clear business results.

Responsibilities:

• Own and execute a multi-quarter product strategy for a high-impact area of Runpod’s AI infrastructure platform directly tied to revenue growth adoption retention gross margin customer outcomes and platform expansion.

• Define the target market customer segments buyer personas user personas and ideal customer profile using customer research product usage data sales insights competitive analysis and market trends.

• Build business cases for major product investments including market opportunity customer pain points willingness to pay competitive dynamics adoption barriers risks and expected ROI.

• Develop and manage a KPI-driven roadmap where every major initiative has a clear customer problem business objective success metric leading indicator and measurable impact.

• Define track and report on key product and business metrics including activation conversion usage growth revenue contribution retention expansion churn compute utilization gross margin time-to-value NPS and feature engagement.

• Use quantitative and qualitative data to guide product decisions prioritize roadmap tradeoffs evaluate launch performance and continuously refine strategy.

• Conduct frequent customer discovery with prospects customers partners and internal go-to-market teams to identify scalable market opportunities and validate product direction.

• Partner with Engineering Design and Infrastructure to deliver reliable scalable and intuitive platform capabilities that improve customer outcomes and support business growth.

• Collaborate with Sales Marketing Customer Success Finance Partnerships and Legal to drive go-to-market readiness including positioning pricing and packaging input launch planning enablement onboarding and expansion motions.

• Communicate product strategy business impact roadmap progress competitive insights key risks and tradeoffs clearly to executives strategic customers and cross-functional stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means you are not simply shipping features. You are building a product area that produces measurable business results.

You will be expected to:

• Define a clear product strategy tied to company-level growth objectives.

• Identify and prioritize the highest-value customer and market opportunities.

• Build a KPI framework that guides roadmap decisions and measures impact.

• Launch product capabilities that improve adoption retention revenue and customer outcomes.

• Partner with go-to-market teams to improve positioning pricing sales enablement and customer success.

• Use data to make better decisions challenge assumptions and refine strategy.

• Communicate clearly with executives customers and cross-functional teams.

• Help Runpod strengthen its position as the leading AI infrastructure platform.
  

Requirements:

• 6+ years of product management experience ideally owning a technical infrastructure developer platform cloud AI/ML enterprise software marketplace or usage-based product.

• Proven experience operating products at significant scale ideally serving millions of users hundreds of thousands of developers large enterprise customers or high-volume infrastructure workloads.

• Demonstrated ability to make product decisions in scaled environments where reliability performance usability cost efficiency and customer trust are critical.

• Strong business judgment with a track record of connecting product strategy to revenue growth customer acquisition retention expansion margin improvement or operational efficiency.

• Deep analytical capability including experience defining KPIs analyzing funnels interpreting usage trends evaluating cohorts measuring launch impact and using data to prioritize roadmap decisions.

• Experience building business cases for product investments including market sizing customer segmentation ROI analysis adoption assumptions competitive positioning and financial impact.

• Strong customer discovery skills with the ability to engage prospects and customers uncover business and technical pain points and translate insights into scalable product opportunities.

• Comfort operating in technical domains with the ability to understand infrastructure concepts APIs developer workflows cloud platforms distributed systems AI/ML workloads or usage-based compute products.

• Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with Engineering Design Sales Marketing Customer Success Finance Infrastructure Legal and executive teams to drive alignment and execution.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to craft clear strategy documents executive narratives roadmap updates launch plans and business cases in ambiguous fast-moving environments.
  

What You’ll Receive:

• The competitive base pay for this position ranges from $175000 - $225000 usd. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Runpod and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors including the candidate’s experience qualifications and location

• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company- everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth and you share in the upside.

• Generous medical dental & vision plans 

• Flexible PTO- take the time you need to recharge

• Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication 

• Join a passionate team on the cutting edge of AI infrastructure — where culture learning and ownership are at the heart of how we scale.

• $1200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend- We set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace

Runpod is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and upholding the principles of equality and respect for all individuals. We believe that diversity in all its forms enhances our team. As an equal opportunity employer Runpod is committed to creating an inclusive workforce at every level. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age marital status protected veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome every qualified candidate eligible to work in the United States; however we are currently unable to sponsor employment visas.
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What We Do

Runpod is pioneering the future of AI and machine learning offering cutting-edge cloud infrastructure for full-stack AI applications. Founded in 2022 we are a rapidly growing well-funded company with a remote-first organization spread globally. Our mission is to empower innovators and enterprises to unlock AI's true potential driving technology and transforming industries. Join us as we shape the future of AI. We are building Cloud services focused on accelerating AI adoption. Whether you're an experienced ML developer training a large language model or an enthusiast tinkering with stable diffusion we strive to make GPU compute as seamless and affordable as possible.

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