Principal Product Manager - Compute

Ll Oefentherapie; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ll Oefentherapie is seeking a senior product leader to own the strategy and roadmap for a compute product area. You will work with customers to define workload needs and overcome adoption barriers, while collaborating with silicon partners and OCI engineers to evaluate platform choices.

The role requires deep architecture understanding and PM experience with processor or compute platforms, plus the ability to justify decisions with data and customer value.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience including 3+ years in product management.
• Direct experience with CPUs/GPUs/AI accelerators and technical depth in at least one category.
• Understanding of processor and system architecture to evaluate engineering proposals.
• Prior PM ownership for a processor, compute platform, or related infrastructure product.
• Evidence of consequential product decisions with documented outcomes.
• Experience authoring decision papers and defending recommendations with leaders.
• Ability to link workload performance to pricing, customer value, and investment cases.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, requirements, priorities, and roadmap for a compute product area.
• Engage with customers to identify workload needs and adoption barriers.
• Evaluate processor and platform choices with silicon partners and engineering teams.
• Write decision papers outlining context, options, and recommended actions.
• Present and defend recommendations in leadership reviews.
• Lead product decisions through development to launch, including pricing and readiness for customer use.
• Track adoption, performance, and business impact; adjust priorities accordingly.

Skills

8+ years experience

3+ years product management

Requirements backlog & roadmap

CPU/GPU/AI accelerators familiarity

Architecture understanding

Decision papers

Pricing & business case thinking

Education

Electrical Engineering

Computer Engineering

Computer Science

Job description

What you’ll do

• Own the strategy, requirements, priorities, and roadmap for a compute product area.
• Work directly with customers to identify workload needs and adoption barriers. Decide which opportunities warrant investment and which do not.
• Work with silicon partners and OCI engineering to evaluate processor and platform choices across performance, memory, interconnect, power, software readiness, cost, and delivery timing.
• Write decision papers for leadership that establish the context, assess alternatives, and recommend product investments, roadmap choices, and pricing. Make assumptions, economics, risks, and requested decisions explicit.
• Present and defend recommendations in leadership reviews. Resolve open questions and revise proposals when the evidence changes.
• Lead product decisions through development and launch, including scope tradeoffs, positioning, pricing, and readiness for customer use.
• Track adoption, workload competitiveness, and business performance. Use the results to change priorities and guide subsequent investments.

Required experience and expertise

• Typically 8+ years of relevant industry experience, including 3+ years of product management experience with ownership of requirements, roadmap priorities, business tradeoffs, and product outcomes.
• Direct experience developing, evaluating, deploying, or bringing to market CPUs, GPUs, or AI accelerators, with technical depth in at least one category.
• Enough understanding of processor and system architecture to evaluate engineering proposals, challenge benchmark claims, and defend technical recommendations with experienced engineers.
• Prior product management responsibility for a processor, compute platform, or related infrastructure product. Your experience includes defining requirements, setting priorities, making business tradeoffs, and following a product through launch and adoption.
• Evidence of consequential product decisions you made: the alternatives considered, the supporting technical and customer evidence, and the results.
• Experience authoring decision papers or comparable proposals and defending recommendations with technical and business leaders.
• Ability to connect workload performance and system costs to pricing, customer value, and an investment case.

Preferred experience

• Experience with cloud compute products or data center platforms.
• Experience working with processor vendors, system suppliers, or infrastructure customers on product requirements and roadmaps.

Education

A degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science is preferred. Equivalent technical expertise demonstrated through relevant industry experience will also be considered.

Years of experience are a guide. The scope of your ownership, quality of your judgment, and demonstrated results determine fit.