Sr. Product Manager, Platform
Job description
About the role
This position defines and owns the foundational developer experience for a RISC-V AI compute platform. Success in this role is measured by developer trust, adoption, and satisfaction across the entire workflow. The hire will act as the central point of ownership for the end-to-end platform experience, ensuring coherence from installation to execution. They will synthesize complex technical constraints into simple, reliable commands and interfaces for developers. This role requires deep collaboration with firmware, drivers, and runtime teams to align on a unified vision. The product manager will be the primary voice for the terminal and command-line experience within the organization. They will balance the needs of open source contributors with enterprise customer demands. Ultimately, this role shapes how developers perceive the efficiency and power of the underlying silicon.
Key facts
What you'll do
Own the definition and execution of the unified Tenstorrent CLI, managing the entire command surface, installation, packaging, versioning, deprecation policy, telemetry, and coexistence with existing tools.
Provide crisp priorities and clear direction for highly technical engineering teams, establishing clear success metrics and enabling rapid iterative shipping to validate hypotheses.
Act as a partner for engineering, DevRel, and customer teams, treating every blocked developer as the highest priority and resolving platform friction swiftly.
Be developer-focused by dogfooding the platform exactly as a customer would, judging output by whether developers reach real work fast and encounter minimal friction.
Cultivate a bias for action, finding creative solutions and shipping functional outcomes when the path is ambiguous rather than waiting for perfect information or exhaustive documentation.
Live in the terminal with strong opinions on installers, updates, versioning, error messages, and workflows to build and maintain developer trust over time.
Gather customer feedback directly from the community and translate it into concrete requirements and roadmap adjustments for the platform team.
Ensure the platform foundations support the RISC-V AI compute ecosystem, enabling open, affordable hardware approaches that influence developer adoption and customization.
Maintain cross-functional alignment to ensure shipped platform features solve real-world development problems and improve the end-to-end user journey.
Define and measure success metrics for developer trust, adoption, and satisfaction to guide data-driven decisions and continuous improvement.
You are technical and comfortable diving into code and repositories to understand firmware, drivers, and runtimes while also defining high-level objectives for highly technical products.
Requirements
You are technical and comfortable diving into code and repositories to understand firmware, drivers, and runtimes while also defining high-level objectives for highly technical products.
You have a bias for action, finding creative solutions and shipping when the path is ambiguous rather than waiting for perfect information.
You are developer-focused, dogfooding the platform exactly as a customer would and judging output by whether developers reach real work fast.
You care about foundations, living in the terminal with strong opinions on installers, updates, versioning, error messages, and how these elements build developer trust.
You can own both the definition and the launch of the unified Tenstrott CLI, including command surface, installation and packaging, versioning and deprecation policy, telemetry, and coexistence with existing tools.
You provide crisp priorities and clear direction for highly technical engineering teams, with clear success metrics and rapid iterative shipping.
You act as a partner for engineering, DevRel, and customer teams, treating every blocked developer as the highest priority.
A degree requirement is stated, and eligibility for the offer may depend on U.S. export-controlled technology laws, citizenship, or permanent residency.
Nice to have
Experience levels vary, and candidates are assessed during the interview process with offers aligned to the assessed level.
Practical notes
Offer eligibility may depend on U.S. export-controlled technology laws, citizenship, or permanent residency.
Typical interview steps
Product interviews often include a product sense round, an analytical round, and a behavioral round. Candidates may be asked to design a feature, prioritize a backlog, or estimate a metric. Some loops include a case exercise. Strong candidates show structured thinking and customer empathy. Interviewers want to see how you prioritize when everything matters. Walking through your decision criteria out loud is a strong habit in product interviews.
Good to know
Platform roles sit at the intersection of software and silicon, where compiler and firmware decisions directly shape developer workflows.
RISC-V ecosystems are growing rapidly, and open, affordable hardware approaches influence how developers adopt and customize AI compute.
CLI design heavily influences trust, onboarding time, and long-term platform adoption across diverse workflows.
Open source collaboration in hardware and software requires transparent communication and community-first shipping practices.
Developer experience quality depends on installation simplicity, update reliability, clear error messages, and consistent versioning.
Cross-functional alignment with DevRel and customer teams ensures that shipped platform features solve real-world development problems.
Career growth
Product careers usually move from associate to product manager, then to senior, group, or director levels. Some people specialize in growth, platform, or enterprise products. Others move into general management. Success depends on shipped outcomes rather than shipped output. Product careers often reward generalists early and specialists later. Experience shipping measurable outcomes is the strongest signal for promotion.