Principal Product Manager, AI Infrastructure (Storage)

ProducePay; United States; On-site; USD 285,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Restricted Stock Units

Paid time off

Health, dental & vision insurance

HSA contributions

Parental leave

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Commuter benefits

Cell phone stipend

401(k) with company match

Volunteer time off

Global travel insurance

Meals allowance

Location-specific perks

Job summary

Crusoe is seeking a Principal Product Manager for its AI Infrastructure team to own the long‑term storage foundation. You will drive architecture decisions, vendor relationships, and scalability for tens of thousands of GPUs handling data at scale.

You will partner with engineering and architecture to translate workload and fleet requirements into infrastructure strategies while shaping cost, capacity, and performance trajectories.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or related field.
• 8+ years in technical product management or infra engineering with architecture outcomes.
• Subject matter expert in storage and hyperscale cloud architectures.
• Experience managing long-term vendor strategy for storage hardware/software.
• Strong understanding of cost per usable TB and capacity efficiency.
• Ability to translate technical tradeoffs into clear narratives for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define the 2-4 year vision and roadmap for Crusoe's storage foundation.
• Own long‑term storage architecture and hierarchy across tiers.
• Lead vendor strategy and technology direction for storage stack.
• Set targets for performance, durability, and cost per usable TB.
• Plan for AI-scale fleet growth and architecture evolution.
• Identify structural limitations and prioritize investments.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture on tradeoffs.

Skills

Storage architecture

Vendor management

Cloud storage

Data-driven decisions

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Analytical mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About This Role

Crusoe is building the infrastructure layer that powers the most demanding AI workloads on the planet. Our storage stack is what keeps tens of thousands of GPUs fed with data, whether that means block volumes for fast bootups, a shared file system for a training cluster, or the object storage tier a physical AI customer depends on. As a Principal Product Manager on our AI Infrastructure team, you will own the long-term architecture and technology strategy for Crusoe's storage foundation: how we build our storage stack at scale, from hardware and vendor selection to fleet-wide deployment architecture.

This is a foundations role. You will work as a peer to our most senior infrastructure engineers and architects, and make the long-term architecture, vendor, and technology decisions that determine whether our storage platform can scale for years, not just for the next customer request. You will partner closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Software Engineering, and Architecture to translate future workload, fleet, and customer requirements into infrastructure requirements, and manage the vendor relationships that keep our storage stack world-class for AI at scale.

What You'll Be Working On

• Long-term vision: Define the 2-4 year vision and roadmap for Crusoe's storage foundation, across block, file, object, local NVMe, and archival tiers.

• Architecture and hierarchy: Own the long‑term storage architecture and hierarchy

• Vendor management and technology strategy: Own Crusoe's long-term vendor management strategy for the storage stack, and shapes our cost structure, capital allocation, and competitive position.

• Platform targets: Set the performance and durability targets the platform must hit, including storage cost per usable TB and capacity efficiency.

• Scale for AI: Own the future architecture required to support significantly larger AI clusters and fleet scale.

• Structural investment: Identify structural limitations in the current architecture and prioritize the long‑term investments that resolve them.

• Engineering partnership: Partner with Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture on major technical tradeoffs, and define the product requirements and business rationale behind foundational investments.

• Industry scouting: Actively scout the industry for emerging storage technologies and vendors, and represent storage foundations in leadership reviews.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.

• 8+ years of technical product management experience, or product‑minded infrastructure engineering experience, with a track record of owning architecture‑level outcomes at Principal or equivalent scope, specifically focused on cloud storage or related infrastructure.

• Subject matter expertise in storage, with the credibility to operate as a peer to senior infrastructure engineers and architects.

• Strong technical understanding of cloud storage architectures, including block, file, and object storage, at hyperscale.

• Experience managing long‑time vendor strategy and vetting in‑house software engineering investment for storage hardware and software.

• A strong grasp of infrastructure economics at scale, including cost per usable TB and capacity efficiency.

• Analytical mindset with the ability to use data to inform multi-year infrastructure decisions.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate technical tradeoffs into clear narratives for engineering leadership and executives.

Bonus Points

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, including training and inference workloads in the cloud.

• Direct experience with high-performance storage networking, such as RDMA or GPUDirect Storage.

• Experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their storage services, or a deep understanding of cloud-native storage principles at hyperscale.

• Experience managing or mentoring other product managers

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and equity packages

• Restricted Stock Units

• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs

• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance

• Employer contributions to HSA account

• Paid parental leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Professional development & tuition reimbursement

• Mental health & wellness support

• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)

• Cell phone stipend

• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

• Volunteer time off

• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance

• Daily meals allowance

• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $$285,000 - $335,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.