The third era of AI has arrived, powered by foundation models. Foundation models are achieving step-function increases in scale, versatility, and accuracy compared to legacy AI technologies, presenting an opportunity for organizations to fundamentally transform their business and operations. 

SambaNova DataScale is enabling organizations and enterprises to achieve the transformative promise of these new AI technologies with a fully integrated hardware-software system that delivers innovation across the full AI stack, creating the AI backbone for the next 10 years and beyond.

The Role:

Lead Product Manager – HPC and AI

We are seeking a teammate with extensive HPC and AI/ML experience and expertise to join as a product management professional to own and drive the product lifecycle for our portfolio of HPC+AI platform products.  You’ll use your understanding of HPC and AI/ML use cases to drive product definition and feature planning to drive market adoption and scaling sales. Working directly with customers, partners, and engineering you’ll be an integration point across these organizations to continuously enhance our products while refining the value proposition.  

The Person:

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in engineering or product management in HPC, AI/ML paired with strong leadership skills to motivate and engage product management, engineering, marketing, and sales teammates to achieve outstanding business results. You should have experience working with early adopters to iterate on the product definition and MRD creation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7-10+ years of experience driving engineering or product management for B2B high-growth companies. HPC and AI/ML experience is a must
• Strong working knowledge of the HPC and AI/ML market and competitive landscape
• Drive product definition and MRD creation using credible insights developed by interacting with customers, strategic partners and by following usage, market, and economic trends
• You have a strong understanding of software requirements and capabilities for heterogeneous  high performance compute clusters
• Aggregate market data, customer input, and internal capabilities into a compelling portfolio that will drive market share growth
• Strong knowledge of HPC and AI/ML and analytics including models, tools, and platforms
• Exceptional communication skills to address multiple internal and external stakeholders.  Must have experience working closely with C-level executives
• Excellent understanding of how the P&L for a growth business works
• Self-starter that drives to results; bias for action and sense of urgency
• Proven ability to make creative, effective, reliable, and at times, tough decisions quickly 
• Thrives in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, EE

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownership of the product portfolio of HPC and AI convergence products and responsible for driving execution from planning through high volume production and end of life
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure product requirements, goals, and objectives are met and exceeded
• Partner with engineering teams to create a platform ecosystem that supports the company value proposition and vision
• Develop product business cases in collaboration with sales teams that meet business growth and market share objectives
• Develop competitive analysis to define and communicate key value propositions and advantages to differentiate in the market
• Manage product migration across multiple generations supporting consistent market share growth in selected vertical markets
• Work closely with cross-functional teams – corporate marketing, product marketing, demand generation, sales, and partners/alliances -- to consistently identify messaging and positioning opportunities and integrate into compelling and informative content.
• Develop, update, and present Product collateral, including technical presentations, whitepapers, videos, and case studies

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