About the Team
As the Staff Product Manager - AI Inference, you will lead CoreWeave's strategic efforts in shaping and developing cutting-edge AI inference services that drive innovation and business outcomes for our customers. You will collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and industry partners to create world-class products that empower organizations to build, deploy, scale, and optimize AI models and applications efficiently and effectively.
The ideal candidate is passionate about AI and cloud technologies, with a deep understanding of the foundation model architectures, AI inference landscape, AI application ecosystem, cloud-native technologies, and the competitive landscape. You will leverage market insights and technical expertise to define the product vision, roadmap, and go-to-market strategy, ensuring that CoreWeave builds on its market-segment position as the leading AI Hyperscaler.
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Vision and Strategy: Help refine the product strategy for AI application cloud services aimed at foundational model Inference, along with focus on optimization across the entire CoreWeave product portfolio for AI workloads. Solve novel problems related to scaling AI model inference on specialized hardware.
- Roadmap Development: Own the product roadmap for AI inference services, balancing near-term customer needs with long-term vision, to deliver differentiated and scalable AI cloud services.
- AI and Cloud Expertise: Stay current on advancements in AI/ML technologies including inference engines, model serving architectures, cloud infrastructures, and software development methodologies to inform product decisions and foster innovation.
- Define product portfolio: Manage ambiguity and complexity of a fast evolving AI landscape to define new product investments and develop a portfolio of inference capabilities that deliver long-term differentiation and customer value.
- Customer Engagement: Collaborate with key customers to understand their AI workloads, pain points, and future requirements to continuously improve our service offerings.
- Cross-functional Leadership: Collaborate with engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success teams to ensure seamless product development and deployment.
- Market Analysis: Analyze market trends, customer feedback, and the competitive landscape to identify growth opportunities and ensure CoreWeave stays ahead of industry trends.
- Go-to-Market Strategy: Partner with industry partners, marketing, and sales teams to develop and execute effective go-to-market strategies for AI cloud services, including pricing strategies, positioning, messaging, and competitive differentiation.
Qualifications:
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in product management, with at least 5 years in the cloud services or AI/ML market segment.
- Technical Knowledge: Hands on practitioner and deep understanding of AI/ML workloads including foundation model inference, inference engines such as vllm, SGLang, TensorRT-llm, and llm-d, inference optimization techniques such as quantization and speculative decoding, cloud infrastructure (GPUs), and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, microservices).
- Leadership: Proven ability to lead cross functional teams, with strong decision-making, project management, and mentoring skills.
- Customer-Centric Approach: Demonstrated experience working closely with customers to identify needs and translate them into product features and solutions.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. MBA or equivalent experience is a plus.
- Visionary Leadership: Ability to think strategically while being able to dive into technical details to guide the product team.
- Results-Oriented: Proven track record of driving business growth through innovative product solutions in the AI and cloud space.
Why CoreWeave?
At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:
- Be Curious at Your Core
- Act Like an Owner
- Empower Employees
- Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
- Achieve More Together
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!
The base salary range for this role is $207,000 to $275,000. The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).
What We Offer
The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
- 401(k) with a generous employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
- A casual work environment
- A work culture focused on innovative disruption
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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [email protected].
Export Control Compliance
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
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