Product Manager, Infrastructure

Cartesia; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter Allowance

Flexible PTO

Meals & Snacks

Job summary

Cartesia is seeking a Product Manager, Infrastructure to lead the platform that supports its foundation models. Responsibilities include owning the roadmap for APIs and SDKs while collaborating with engineering and customer teams.

The ideal candidate has 5–8 years of product experience, with a focus on infrastructure and developer tools, exhibiting strong technical fluency and clarity in decision-making. The role offers competitive compensation and a supportive company culture.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in product, including 3+ years in infrastructure, developer tools, or AI/ML platform PM.
• Strong technical fluency and the ability to read design docs and run architecture reviews.
• Experience owning a multi-tenant platform or dev tools product with engineering customers.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for Cartesia's infrastructure platform.
• Translate enterprise deal signals into coherent product direction.
• Run customer technical reviews and debrief with CTOs.

Job description

About Cartesia

Our mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do.

We're pioneering the model architectures that will make this possible. Our founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab, where we invented State Space Models or SSMs, a new primitive for training efficient, large‑scale foundation models. Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design‑minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences.

We're funded by leading investors at Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with Factory, Conviction, A Star, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Databricks and others. We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI.

About the Role

Cartesia is hiring a Product Manager, Infrastructure to own the platform our customers and internal teams depend on — the APIs, SDKs, deployment surfaces, and infrastructure primitives that make Cartesia's foundation models usable in production. Your customers are engineers, and your work shows up in design docs, deal cycles, and CTO conversations as much as it does in product specs. You'll partner with engineering, research, and GTM to ship a platform that earns enterprise trust, and to run the enterprise motions that come with it.

Your Impact

• Own the roadmap for Cartesia's infrastructure platform — APIs, SDKs, deployment models, and the developer experience layered on top
• Translate enterprise deal signals into a coherent product direction; separate one‑off asks from real platform investments
• Run customer technical reviews, partner with FDE/SE/Solutions teams inside live deals, and debrief with CTOs to convert technical wins into closed business
• Make and defend architectural tradeoffs (latency vs. throughput, abstraction level, deployment model) in design reviews and PRDs
• Write the PRDs, GTM primers, deprecation comms, and competitive teardowns that the company runs on

What You Bring

• 5–8 years in product, including 3+ years in infrastructure, developer tools, or AI/ML platform PM — shipping against a real engineering roadmap
• Strong technical fluency: you can read a design doc, run an architecture review, and hold opinions on tradeoffs from first principles. You don't ship code, but you debug in conversation
• Has owned a multi‑tenant platform, dev tools product, or B2B infra product where the customer is also an engineer
• Enterprise fluency: comfortable in a technical review, a sales pitch, and a CTO debrief — and able to translate between all three. Has worked alongside FDE/SE/Solutions teams in active deal cycles
• Track record of saying no with clarity, not just yes — and shipping iteratively rather than waiting on a perfect spec
• Clear, structured writer: your PRDs, GTM primers, and deprecation comms all land. Fluent with modern AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) as a force multiplier

Nice to Have

• Voice/real‑time streaming systems experience (LiveKit, Twilio, Daily, Pipecat, telephony / SIP)
• On‑prem, VPC, or air‑gapped deployment experience; familiarity with customer compliance reviews
• GPU/inference‑stack literacy (vLLM, TensorRT‑LLM, SGLang, KV cache, GPU SKUs)
• Prior experience as a founding/early platform PM at a Series A/B AI infra company

More Details

In‑office policy: We’re an in‑person team based out of offices in United States San Francisco, United Kingdom London, and India Bangalore. We love being in the office, hanging out together, and learning from each other every day.

Visa sponsorship: We provide visa sponsorship support and assess each circumstance on a case‑by‑case basis. However, visa sponsorship is dependent on many factors, including the role you are applying for, and the location you are going to be based, and so we can’t always guarantee success. Your Recruiter will work with you to understand your visa sponsorship needs from the first call.

We ship fast. All of our work is novel and cutting edge, and execution speed is paramount. We have a high bar, and we don’t sacrifice quality or design along the way.

We support each other. We have an open & inclusive culture that’s focused on giving everyone the resources they need to succeed.

Our Benefits

Compensation: Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.

Commuter Allowance: A monthly stipend to help you get to and from the office.

Flexible PTO: Take as much time as you need to recharge your batteries.

Meals & Snacks: Lunch, dinner and plenty of snacks, provided daily.

Your own personal Yoshi.