Senior Product Manager, Hyperforce

Leadout Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Leadout Capital in San Francisco is seeking a Product Manager with a strong builder mindset to lead platform & infrastructure initiatives. You’ll focus on AI-driven solutions for resource optimization, scaling, and availability, while ensuring a cost-effective compute ecosystem.

You’ll own roadmap development, prototype new capabilities, and collaborate with customers and partners to translate needs into product outcomes. Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management, solution architecture, or similar experience.
• Technical depth in IaaS/PaaS, containers/Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability.
• Proficiency with AI and data analytics tools (SQL).
• Experience delivering rich UX, KPIs for user journeys, and platform automation for self-service.
• Ability to translate customer needs into product capabilities and build prototypes.
• Technical degree required, preferably in Software Engineering.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and innovate towards building strategic platform capabilities such as resource optimization.
• Apply AI to understand user pain-points, gaps in scaling and availability, build concepts, and product ops.
• Engage with customers and partners to road-map, gather feedback, and identify challenges and opportunities.
• Represent Salesforce as a domain and product expert at customer interactions, events, and community sites.

Skills

Communication skills

AI proficiency

Data analytics (SQL)

Self-service automation

Prototype development

Customer requirement translation

Collaboration skills

Education

Technical degree (Software Engineering)

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Claude Code

Job description

The Experience

The Hyperforce team is seeking a Product Manager with a strong builder mindset. The role requires technical proficiency and passion for platform & infrastructure-as-a-service, developer experience and applying AI for solving hard platform problems such as resource optimization, scaling and availability. The role will focus on building new technologies that can scale the compute infrastructure while also running it in a cost effective manner.

What You'll Actually Be Doing:

• Own and innovate towards building strategic platform capabilities such as resource optimization by leveraging the knowledge of Infrastructure/platform-as-a-service and open-source technologies.
• Apply AI to understand user pain-points, investigate product maturity gaps such as in scaling and availability, build product concepts, and product ops.
• Engage with customers and partners to build product capability roadmap, get product feedback, and identify additional challenges and opportunities.
• Represent Salesforce as a domain and product expert at customer interactions, industry and corporate events, and through community sites.

What we're looking for:

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years minimum of Product Management, Solution Architect or similar experience.
• Technical depth in user facing products, infrastructure/platform-as-a-service (IaaS/PaaS), containers/Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability.
• Proficiency and growth mindset towards leveraging AI (eg. Claude Code) and data analytics tools (eg. SQL).
• Product management experience in developing rich user experiences, KPIs for measuring user journey and experience, and building platform automation for self-service.
• Demonstrated experience in building product prototypes, writing strategy and translating customer needs into product capabilities.
• A technical degree required, preferably in Software Engineering.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in resource optimization techniques such as leveraging Karpenter and Kueue is preferred.
• Direct experience of working on and leveraging AWS, Google Cloud and Azure services.