Manager, Group Product Manager - Platform

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, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

Note: This position requires presence in our Bellevue or San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

About The Role

Every product Lambda ships depends on horizontal capabilities: the security and identity surfaces that let enterprise customers trust us, the telemetry and observability that tells us and our customers what the fleet is doing, and the metering and billing that turns per-minute GPU usage and committed cluster contracts into accurate invoices. When the platform layer is coherent, every Lambda product gets stronger at once. That is the leverage of this role. You'll lead Lambda's Platform product group as a player‑coach. You'll hire and manage three product managers, one each for Security, Observability, and Billing, all opening now. While you build that team, you'll personally own platform product strategy: the roadmap, the priorities, and the tradeoffs. You'll partner directly with platform engineering leadership. This is a first‑line product management manager role, and you'll set the bar your team is measured against.

What You’ll Do

• 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, rather than one‑off features for a single product line.
• Get Metering and Billing Right: Own the product surface for usage‑based GPU compute billing, from per‑minute on‑demand billing to committed multi‑node cluster contracts, so every invoice is accurate and explainable.
• Earn Enterprise Trust: Shape the identity and security surfaces that let enterprise ML (machine learning) teams adopt Lambda with confidence.
• Partner with Platform Engineering: Work side by side with platform engineering leadership on sequencing, tradeoffs, and delivery, so strategy and architecture move together.
• Decide with Data: Turn fleet telemetry, usage patterns, and customer signal into clear build decisions, and communicate the what, the so what, and the now what to executives and customers.

You

• Have 10+ years of product management experience, including experience shipping platform or infrastructure products that other teams build on
• Have 3+ years hiring and managing product managers, or have formally led product managers as a first‑line manager
• Turn ambiguous data and customer signal into a clear decision about what to build next, and can show where you've done it
• 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
• Are comfortable operating 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 hold your own in architecture discussions
• Communicate in writing clearly enough that an executive can act on your document without a follow‑up meeting
• Able to define iterative plans that move an organization from the current state towards the desired outcome

Nice to Have

• Have shipped metering, billing, or monetization systems for usage‑based products
• Have built identity, security, or compliance product surfaces for enterprise customers
• Have built telemetry or observability products, or worked deeply with tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Have a background in GPU compute, high performance computing, or AI infrastructure
• Have built a product team from zero, including writing the job descriptions and running the hiring loops

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In‑Q‑Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
• We offer generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Compensation Range: $314K - $407K