Product Manager

Turbalance; Heidelberg; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Deutschlandticket

Discount portal

Hybrid/Remote FAQ

Flexible hours

Modern offices

Job summary

Turbalance in Heidelberg is seeking an experienced Product Manager to define the product vision for our AI infrastructure platform. You will own the multi-year roadmaps and collaborate with engineering, customers, and leadership to shape a scalable, reliable product.

This hybrid role involves travel between Germany and the US, and you will contribute to product messaging, blogs, and technical content while helping to guide go-to-market efforts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling products.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on technical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year vision and roadmap for the AI Scheduling product.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to deliver capabilities for enterprise and developer customers.
• Engage directly with customers to identify unmet needs and validate product direction.
• Monitor the competitive and technical landscape and translate trends into roadmap implications.
• Support product launches, roadmap reviews, and the broader product narrative.
• Create tight feedback loops between customers and engineering to improve performance, usability, and reliability.
• Support go-to-market activities by contributing to product messaging, documentation, and technical content.

Skills

Product management

Strategic planning

Stakeholder communication

Customer discovery

Roadmapping

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering

MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Slurm

VMware

Job description

Your mission

To support our growing team, we are looking for an experienced Product Manager. In this role, you will take a strategic and hands-on approach to defining the product vision and expanding our product suite. You will develop frameworks and processes that bring together insights from engineers, executives, and customers to strengthen our cutting-edge, easy-to-use, high-performance AI infrastructure design and management platform.

• Develop the multi-year vision and roadmap for our AI Scheduling product, from job queuing and resource allocation to latency optimization and reliability at scale.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to define and deliver capabilities that enterprise and developer customers rely on every day.
• Engage directly with customers to identify unmet needs, validate product direction, and turn complex or conflicting input into clear product decisions.
• Monitor the competitive and technical landscape, including distributed systems, orchestration tools, and AI workload patterns, and translate relevant trends into roadmap implications.
• Work with leadership to support product launches, roadmap reviews, and the broader product narrative.
• Create tight feedback loops between customers and engineering to continuously improve performance, usability, and reliability.
• Support go-to-market activities by contributing to product messaging, documentation, and technical content, including blogs, white papers, and presentations.

Your profile

This role is open to candidates based in Germany who are able to work in a hybrid setup from our Heidelberg office, or candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• 5+ years of product management experience, including significant ownership of infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling products.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on technical experience.
• Proven track record of defining and delivering multi-year product roadmaps, not just quarterly plans.
• Product management experience with cloud or cluster management technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Slurm, VMware, or similar platforms.
• Working understanding of machine learning infrastructure and software, including compute hardware, communication layers, models, inference engines, orchestration tools, and common user and developer workflows
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and able to make clear decisions with incomplete information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, executives, and enterprise customers.
• Comfortable working as an individual contributor, with impact driven by insight, ownership, and cross-functional influence rather than team size.
• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams without losing quality or momentum.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% between our German and US locations, as business needs require.

Nice to have

• Experience in an AI/ML infrastructure or MLOps environment, including an understanding of how scheduling supports training, inference, and evaluation pipelines.
• A portfolio of technical writing, product specifications, or public content demonstrating an ability to communicate complex topics clearly.
• Measurable outcomes you can point to and own, such as shipped products, adoption metrics, customer wins, or performance improvements.

Why us?

• Build something big: Help build and scale a fast-growing AI infrastructure startup.
• Pay & perks: Competitive compensation, performance-based incentives, a subsidized Deutschlandticket, and access to a discount portal.
• Work your way: Flexible hours with hybrid and remote-friendly options.
• Fast lanes, no red tape: Flat hierarchies and rapid decision-making mean ideas move quickly.
• Global team: Work with a diverse, international team across Germany and the US.
• Modern offices: Well-equipped locations near Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof and in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Top setup: Your choice of high-quality hardware and equipment.