Group Product Manager - Control Plane

Volta; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Retirement plan

Health benefits

Generous vacation

Job summary

Volta, based in Palo Alto, seeks a Group Product Manager for the Kubernetes-native control plane that manages Volta's compute, storage, and networking resources. You will lead a team of product managers and work closely with platform engineering to translate customer needs into features.

This deeply technical leadership role shapes reliability and efficiency of the fleet, requiring strong product instincts, technical fluency, and ability to partner with engineers to drive scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Significant product management experience in infrastructure, platform, or developer tools.
• Experience managing other product managers or leading a product team.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure control plane concepts.
• Strong technical fluency, comfortable partnering closely with engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and roadmap for Volta's control plane — the Kubernetes-native layer managing compute, storage, and networking lifecycle
• Lead and develop a team of product managers focused on control plane capabilities
• Work closely with platform engineering to translate customer and operational needs into control plane features
• Prioritize the roadmap based on customer impact, operational reliability, and platform scalability
• Partner with the bring-up and operations teams to identify and address operational pain points
• Define success metrics for control plane capabilities and track outcomes post-launch
• Represent control plane priorities in cross-functional and leadership planning
• Communicate roadmap and rationale clearly to engineering, leadership, and customers as needed

Skills

Product leadership

Roadmap planning

Communication with stakeholders

Team mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

APIs

Job description

About Volta

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

About The Role

The Group Product Manager, Control Plane, owns the product strategy for the systems that manage and orchestrate Volta's compute, storage, and networking resources — the Kubernetes-native control layer that makes the platform work. You will lead a team of product managers shaping how the control plane evolves as the fleet scales.

This is a deeply technical product leadership role at the core of Volta's platform, where the decisions you make directly shape how reliably and efficiently the entire fleet runs.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own product strategy and roadmap for Volta's control plane — the Kubernetes-native layer managing compute, storage, and networking lifecycle
• Lead and develop a team of product managers focused on control plane capabilities
• Work closely with platform engineering to translate customer and operational needs into control plane features
• Prioritize the roadmap based on customer impact, operational reliability, and platform scalability
• Partner with the bring-up and operations teams to identify and address operational pain points
• Define success metrics for control plane capabilities and track outcomes post-launch
• Represent control plane priorities in cross-functional and leadership planning
• Communicate roadmap and rationale clearly to engineering, leadership, and customers as needed

What You Bring

• Significant product management experience in infrastructure, platform, or developer tools is essential
• Experience managing other product managers or leading a product team
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure control plane concepts
• Strong technical fluency, comfortable partnering closely with engineering
• A track record shipping infrastructure products that scale
• Excellent prioritization and stakeholder communication skills

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What We Offer

At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.

As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary
• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success
• Retirement/pension contributions
• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
• Generous number of vacation days each year

Equal Opportunity

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accessibility

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