Staff Product Manager

### Who you are
- Technical Fluency: Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes or comparable orchestration systems, with a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and the hardware-software interface. You can engage credibly at the "metal" layer
- Product Experience: 7+ years of technical product management or product-minded engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex, ambiguous product areas independently and delivering measurable business impact
- First-Principles Thinking: You reject "industry standards" in favor of logic-based frameworks. You understand the "physics" of infrastructure—such as why idle GPUs cost nearly as much as busy ones—and use that understanding to unlock differentiated product decisions
- High Agency: You don't wait for permission or a fully defined problem statement. You identify gaps in the orchestration layer, form a point of view, and drive toward resolution—bringing others along with you
- Cross-Functional Influence: You have a proven ability to build consensus with engineering leads and senior managers, align multiple teams around a product direction, and develop the product instincts of colleagues around you
- Collaborative Backbone: You balance deep stakeholder empathy with the conviction to say "no" to features that don't align with long-term strategic reality—and you can articulate why clearly
- AI/ML Familiarity: You understand how training and inference workloads interact with container orchestration systems
- HPC Expertise: Experience with high-performance computing workloads and specialized schedulers (e.g., Slurm, volcano)
- Active AI Tinkerer: You run your own local LLMs, experiment with agents, or otherwise participate in the AI revolution firsthand

### What the job involves
- As a Staff Product Manager for Orchestration, you will define the vision and own outcomes for the foundational layers of Crusoe's cloud
- You will lead the orchestration services that allow both our internal teams and external customers to deploy massive-scale training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads on our carbon-reducing, vertically integrated AI cloud
- This role requires deep functional expertise and the ability to drive complex, cross-functional product initiatives with minimal direction
- You will own the product lifecycle end-to-end—from identifying ambiguous, ill-defined problems to building alignment across engineering, SRE, and business stakeholders—and translate that into a roadmap that directly contributes to Crusoe's revenue and competitive differentiation
- You will oversee our Managed Kubernetes offerings and the underlying infrastructure clusters that power our entire service ecosystem, serving as the connective tissue between the hardware layer and the user-facing software experience
- Orchestration Vision & Roadmap: Define and own the multi-team roadmap for our foundational orchestration services. Identify opportunities in ambiguous problem spaces, set long-term strategic direction, and build consensus across engineering leads and senior stakeholders
- Foundational Infrastructure: Drive requirements for the orchestration layers hosting Crusoe's mission-critical services, balancing reliability, scale, and long-term platform implications—including second- and third-order effects of key architectural decisions
- Customer Empathy & Feedback: Engage regularly with current and prospective customers to surface unmet needs, synthesize feedback across the portfolio, and translate insights into concrete product investments with clear ROI
- Technical Prioritization: Lead ruthless prioritization and navigate complex trade-offs (e.g., latency vs. cost, speed vs. reliability) across multiple workstreams in close collaboration with Engineering, SRE, and Customer Success
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Build and maintain alignment with tech leads, senior managers, and business stakeholders across multiple teams. Drive initiative with urgency, resolve cross-functional friction, and ensure execution stays true to strategic intent
- Executive Communication: Distill complex, ambiguous technical challenges into clear narratives and decision-ready documents for the executive team—including trade-off framing and recommendations tied to business outcomes

### Benefits
- Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
- Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
- 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
- Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life's challenges