Senior Product Manager (vMetal)

vCluster; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; CAD 236,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + equity

Platinum-level insurance

Flexible schedule

Remote-friendly workplace

Job summary

vCluster Labs is seeking a Senior Product Manager for vMetal to own the systems that discover, provision, configure, and manage physical hardware, turning racks of bare metal into a programmable platform for AI Cloud operators and hyperscalers to build tenant clusters on top of.

You will work directly with the Head of Product and engineering leadership on tradeoffs, run alpha and beta builds, and engage with platform engineers to shape the product roadmap and technical conversations across the

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management in cloud infrastructure, bare metal, or GPU/HPC platforms.
• Shipped production-ready features engineers depend on.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure concepts and tradeoffs.
• Experience partnering with engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own vMetal product direction and specs in alignment with business priorities.
• Lead cross-functional efforts with engineering, sales, and marketing.
• Validate concepts through alpha/beta builds with real hardware.
• Engage directly with platform engineers at AI Cloud operators and hyperscalers.
• Track market trends and sharpen messaging for technical buyers.
• Bridge product delivery with go-to-market execution.

Skills

PM experience

Cloud infra

Kubernetes

Customer-facing infra

Tools

Redfish

IPMI

PXE

Job description

As a Senior Product Manager for vMetal at vCluster Labs, you'll help own the systems that discover, provision, configure, and manage physical hardware, turning racks of bare metal into a programmable platform for AI Cloud operators and hyperscalers to build tenant clusters on top of. You'll work directly with the Head of Product and engineering leadership on the tradeoffs that shape where vMetal goes next.

As a Senior Product Manager, Your Role Will Include

• Infrastructure Direction: Align on business priorities and technical direction for vMetal, and translate that into specs engineering can execute against.
• Product Leadership Partnership: Work directly with the Head of Product and engineering leadership on the tradeoffs that determine where vMetal goes next.
• Hands-on Validation: Run alpha and beta builds yourself, including against real bare metal hardware where possible. Catch integration issues before customers do.
• Customer Intelligence: Engage directly with platform engineers at AI Cloud operators and hyperscalers running bare metal at scale.
• Market Positioning: Track the bare metal and GPU infrastructure ecosystem. Sharpen the narrative for technical buyers and partner with GTM on messaging that lands.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Bridge engineering, sales, and marketing so what we ship matches how we sell and support it.

This role could be a fit for you if you bring

• Experience: 5+ years in product management in cloud infrastructure, bare metal, or GPU/HPC platforms. You've shipped something other engineers depend on in production.
• Infrastructure Fluency: You understand bare metal provisioning, out-of-band server management (Redfish, IPMI), and PXE boot well enough to make informed product tradeoffs.
• Kubernetes Familiarity: You're comfortable with Kubernetes fundamentals, pods, controllers, CRDs, and the operator pattern, and can hold a credible technical conversation with engineers.
• Customer-Facing Infra Experience: You've sat across from platform engineers and architects, and you're comfortable in that conversation.

Bonus Points For

• Kubernetes-as-a-Service: Built a KaaS offering at a cloud provider, vendor, or large internal platform team.
• Internal Developer Platforms: Platform PM experience building IDPs that abstract infrastructure complexity for developer teams.
• Startup Growth: Adaptable to startup pace and change.

About VCluster Labs

We are a venture-backed tech startup and the company pioneering Kubernetes virtualization for the AI era. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.

We are the leading platform for operating GPU infrastructure, enabling AI Cloud providers to deliver a hyperscaler-like experience to their customers and AI factories that need to build that same experience for their internal teams. Our platform delivers the full operational stack operators need to run their GPU data centers — managed Kubernetes, fast isolated tenant provisioning, and automated node provisioning and lifecycle management — enabling them to accelerate time to value, reduce operational burden, and maximize the ROI of every GPU.

We're the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (10k+ GitHub stars, 40M+ virtual clusters created since 2021). Open source is part of our DNA. At KubeCon North America 2025, we launched our Infrastructure Tenancy Platform for AI — a Kubernetes-native framework purpose-built for running AI, ML, and GPU-intensive workloads anywhere, with an NVIDIA-validated reference architecture for DGX systems.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
• Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
• Workplace Flexibility: We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

Culture & Values

At VCluster Labs, We Value And Stand For

• Make it Happen: We have a relentless bias for action and the grit to push through obstacles. We do whatever it takes to figure it out, put in the work, and ruthlessly prioritize the actions that drive measurable impact for the business.
• Own the Outcome: We understand that our responsibility doesn't end when a task is checked off; it ends when the value is delivered. We connect our daily individual actions to the broader success of the company and our customers.
• Create Wow: We measure success by the experience we generate, both inside and outside the company. For our customers, this means impressive speed and intuitive experiences. For our team, this means going the extra mile to support one another and to continuously drive each other to new heights.
• Open Source, Open Mind: We are actively contributing to and maintaining open-source projects. Internally, we foster meritocracy — the strongest ideas win, no matter who or where they come from.
• Build Tomorrow’s Standards, Intentionally: We don't just ship software; we define the state-of-the-art of tomorrow. We are fearless in tearing down old approaches to build something better, but we are disciplined in how we do it because we know our users rely on our technology to run mission-critical infrastructure platforms.

Compensation Range: $170K - $200K