Staff Product Manager - Storage

Role description

Role Overview

As a product manager on the Foundational Infrastructure team, you will own a meaningful part of defining where customer data lives on Lambda and how it reaches the GPUs. The domain covers the storage customers attach to an instance and the storage that outlives it, from local disk through block volumes to shared and object storage.

What You Will Do

Find the Real Problem: Get close to customers, deals, escalations, and support on On-Demand GPU Instances and 1-Click Clusters, and work out what is actually blocking them on data rather than what they asked for. Decide What Matters: Rank and sequence the work across the storage portfolio, and be honest about what Lambda is not doing this year and why.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Great product managers at Lambda are defined by three things: insight, influence, and execution. Insight means you look at the data, determine what it means for customers and business, and then figure out what to do about it.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience, including time on storage products at a hyperscaler, neocloud, or comparable cloud provider
• Have shipped storage that external customers ran production workloads on, in object, file, or block
• Understand the storage path well enough to reason with engineers about throughput, latency, consistency, and what happens to a workload when a device or a node fails
• Have owned a product where durability and day two behavior mattered as much as launch, including recovery, capacity exhaustion, and what customers are told when something breaks
• Have owned pricing, packaging, or metering for an infrastructure product, including the data transfer side of it
• Can tell which parts of a hyperscaler playbook transfer to an AI cloud and which are cost without benefit
• Have worked with storage vendors and open source storage systems, and can decide what Lambda should build against what it should buy
• Able to define iterative plans that move an organization from the current state towards the desired outcome
• Communicate plainly, write well, and make decisions easier for people who do not all share the same context

Benefits

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use