Group Product Manager
LambdaUSAFull Time4w ago$314K - $407K
Job description
About the role
Lambda is seeking a player-coach to lead the Platform product group, focusing on the security, observability, and billing infrastructure that powers our AI cloud. You will manage a team of three product managers while personally driving the platform roadmap and strategy to ensure our enterprise customers have a reliable, scalable experience.
Key facts
What you'll do
- Recruit, manage, and mentor product managers for the Security, Observability, and Billing domains.
- Establish the product strategy and roadmap for the platform layer, balancing immediate needs with long-term goals.
- Collaborate with platform engineering leadership to align technical architecture with business objectives.
- Design and improve usage-based billing systems for GPU compute, covering both on-demand and contract-based models.
- Develop identity and security frameworks to support enterprise-grade machine learning workflows.
- Use fleet telemetry and customer feedback to drive data-informed product decisions.
- Ensure horizontal platform capabilities support core products like the Lambda Cloud API, 1-Click Clusters, and On-Demand GPU Instances.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience, specifically with infrastructure or platform products.
- 3+ years of experience managing or formally leading product managers.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders across engineering, design, and executive levels without relying on formal authority.
- Strong execution skills, including the ability to launch, measure, and iterate on complex systems.
- Ability to engage in technical architecture discussions and evaluate engineering tradeoffs.
- Exceptional written communication skills for executive-level documentation.
- Must be able to work from the Bellevue or San Francisco office 4 days per week.
Nice to have
- Experience building monetization or billing systems for usage-based products.
- Background in developing security, compliance, or identity surfaces for enterprise clients.
- Experience with telemetry, observability, or tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
- Familiarity with AI infrastructure, GPU compute, or high-performance computing.
- Experience building a product team from the ground up, including managing hiring processes.
Skills & tools
- Product Strategy
- Team Leadership
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Billing and Metering Systems
- Security and Identity Frameworks
- Observability and Telemetry
- Data Analysis
Practical notes
- Lambda operates on a hybrid schedule with Tuesday as a designated work-from-home day.
- Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, a 401k plan with a 2% company match, and a flexible paid time off policy.
- The company provides wellness and commuter stipends for eligible roles.
- Compensation includes both cash and equity components.
About the company
Lambda is a company named after the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet. This letter, represented as Λ or λ, has a rich and influential history. It represents the voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound. Its origins trace back to the ancient Phoenician letter Lamed. From this foundational root, Lambda significantly contributed to the development of other alphabets. It gave rise to the Latin letter L and the Cyrillic letter El. In the system of Greek numerals, Lambda holds a value of