Crusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We’re crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI — without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.

Be a part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About the Role:

A Senior Director of Product Management is a highly accomplished senior leader with extensive experience defining and driving product strategy for Managed AI Services, with a specialized focus on large-scale inference capabilities. Proven ability to balance customer needs with technical feasibility and business goals, overseeing the entire product lifecycle from ideation to continuous improvement. Possesses a strong track record of leading product management teams to deliver industry-leading performance, scalability, and sustainability in AI offerings. Deep technical acumen in AI/ML workloads, inference systems, and cloud infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Setting the product vision and strategy: Define the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for Managed AI & Inference services, aligning them with overall company goals, market trends, customer needs, and GTM strategy.

• Building, leading and managing a team: Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to a team of product managers, overseeing their performance and development.

• Driving product development and execution: Collaborate closely with engineering, infrastructure, cloud software, SRE, finance, and executive teams to define product requirements, prioritize features, and oversee the product development lifecycle from concept to launch.

• Market analysis and competitive intelligence: Conduct market research, analyze competitive landscape, and stay updated on AI/ML infrastructure trends, including inference platforms, generative AI, LLMs, and multimodal models, to inform product strategy and identify new opportunities.

• Customer engagement: Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customers to understand their needs, gather feedback, and translate them into actionable product improvements.

• Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy: Partner with sales and marketing teams to develop effective GTM strategies and messaging for Managed AI & Inference offerings, including pricing and positioning.

• Performance management: Monitor key performance metrics, analyze data to measure product success, identify areas for improvement, and make data-driven decisions.

• Resource and budget management: Manage product budgets and resources effectively to achieve business goals.

• Risk management: Proactively identify and address technical risks, scaling challenges, and infrastructure bottlenecks.

• Cross-functional collaboration: Work effectively with various teams to ensure successful product execution and alignment with Crusoe’s sustainability goals.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• Strategic thinking and leadership: Ability to think strategically, set a clear vision, make informed decisions, and guide the team toward achieving product goals.
  Have the ability to make challenging product roadmap decisions in the absence of having all of the information

• Have the ability to make challenging product roadmap decisions in the absence of having all of the information.

• Experience building and launching products in one of the following areas: AI inference, AI model tuning, RAG, Agentic AI, building for the AI Developer persona (as opposed to the classic AI/ML Data Scientist persona)

• Deep technical acumen: Strong understanding of AI/ML workloads, inference systems, and cloud infrastructure technologies and trends, with specific experience in AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Product management expertise: Proven track record in taking products from ideation to execution, particularly in Managed AI, with experience managing and launching technical products and features from inception.

• Analytical skills and data-driven decision making: Ability to analyze market and customer data, interpret complex data sets, and use insights to drive product strategy and decisions.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills: Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders, present technical concepts, and build consensus.

• Experience in building teams and launching products at a start-up or scale-up company.

• Agile and Lean methodologies: Familiarity with Agile and Lean product management methodologies.

• Experience or desire to use GenAI to evolve Product Management to the next level.

• This role is required to be onsite in our San Francisco, CA office 5 days/week

Benefits:

• Industry competitive pay

• Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company

• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents

• Employer contributions to HSA accounts

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Teladoc

• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary

• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule

• Cell phone reimbursement

• Tuition reimbursement

• Subscription to the Calm app

• MetLife Legal

• Company paid commuter benefit; $300/month

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of $275,000 – $350,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.