Head of Platform Product, Group PM

Lambda; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 314,000 - 407,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k plan with company match

Wellness and commuter stipends

Generous PTO and equity compensation

Job summary

Lambda, the Superintelligence Cloud, seeks an experienced Platform Product Leader to head the Platform product group. You will hire and manage three PMs for Security, Observability, and Billing, own the roadmap, and partner with Platform Engineering to align strategy and execution.

You will influence cross‑functional teams and set the bar for measurable outcomes. You’ll own strategy, recruit the team, and drive horizontal capabilities that power all Lambda products, from GPU instances to the

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including experience shipping platform or infrastructure products that other teams build on.
• 3+ years hiring and managing product managers, or having led product managers as a first‑line manager.
• Turn ambiguous data and customer signal into a clear decision about what to build next, with measurable outcomes.
• Win engineers, designers, executives, and customers over to your ideas without relying on organizational authority.
• Work with the right people to get products launched, then measure and iterate rather than moving on.
• Operate as a player‑coach, owning strategy directly while building the team that will own it after you.
• Can go deep with engineering leadership on technical tradeoffs and discuss architecture confidently.
• Communicate in writing clearly enough that an executive can act on your document without a follow‑up meeting.
• Define iterative plans that move an organization from the current state towards the desired outcome.

Responsibilities

• Build the Team: Hire, manage, and develop the Security, Observability, and Billing product managers, and set the standard for insight, influence, and execution across the Platform product group.
• Own the Roadmap: Define and own the platform roadmap end to end across security, observability, and billing, and hold it accountable to customer and business outcomes.
• Carry the Strategy Yourself: Personally own platform product strategy while the team is being hired, so the roadmap never waits on headcount.
• Strengthen Every Product: Deliver horizontal capabilities that On‑Demand GPU Instances, 1‑Click Clusters, and the Lambda Cloud API all depend on.
• Get Metering and Billing Right: Own the product surface for usage‑based GPU compute billing, from per‑minute on‑demand billing to multi‑node contracts, ensuring accuracy.
• Earn Enterprise Trust: Shape the identity and security surfaces that let enterprise ML teams adopt Lambda with confidence.
• Partner with Platform Engineering: Work with platform engineering leadership on sequencing, tradeoffs, and delivery to move strategy and architecture together.
• Decide with Data: Turn fleet telemetry, usage patterns, and customer signal into clear build decisions and communicate the now what to executives and customers.

Skills

Product management

People management

Decision making

Influence

Execution

Leadership

Technical collaboration

Written communication

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Lambda, the Superintelligence Cloud, seeks an experienced Platform Product Leader to head the Platform product group. You will hire and manage three PMs for Security, Observability, and Billing, own the roadmap, and partner with Platform Engineering to align strategy and execution.

You will influence cross‑functional teams and set the bar for measurable outcomes. You’ll own strategy, recruit the team, and drive horizontal capabilities that power all Lambda products, from GPU instances to the