Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Runpod is the leading platform to build, run, and scale AI models, and they are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead core product initiatives. This role involves owning the strategy, roadmap, and business performance of a high-impact product area within Runpod’s AI platform, driving measurable business growth and customer adoption.
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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- 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.
- $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend- We set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace
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