Product Manager, Cloud Platform Services

About the role

Product Managers at Nscale own the definition, research, delivery, and ongoing evolution of a slice of the Nscale platform. You partner closely with engineering, design, research, and go-to-market teams to translate customer problems and business goals into shippable product outcomes. PMs work across the full breadth of Nscale — from core infrastructure primitives to managed platform services, developer experience, and internal tools — wherever product leverage is needed.

As a Product Manager working with the Cloud Platform Services team, you're responsible for delivering user-facing products and enhancements around the storage, networking, instances, and general cloud platform services. You'll work day-to-day with platform engineers and cloud native engineers to deliver products such as S3-compatible object storage, cluster management tools, that power workloads across the Nscale cloud via API, UI, CLI, and Terraform. You operate at team scope, driving multi-quarter initiatives within a single team.

Responsibilities

• Own the deliveries and planning of platform service products such as storage, networking, and compute services used by Nscale's customers
• Partner closely with platform engineers and cloud native engineers to deliver the scheduled roadmap items
• Lead multi-sprint, cross-functional initiatives from problem framing through launch and measurement across the full product lifecycle
• Translate deep customer needs and current market trends (AI/ML workloads, GPU scheduling, multi-tenant platform teams, enterprise operators) into feasible product requirements
• Drive meaningful ambiguity: clarify unclear problem statements, align stakeholders across cloud, infra, and GTM, and define what "done" looks like
• Partner with design and research to shape deep product experiences for platform operators and application developers, and validate hypotheses before committing engineering resources
• Define and drive the metrics that matter — reliability, time-to-cluster, workload density, cost efficiency, and developer experience

Requirements

• 2 - 3 years of product management experience in software or technology, with a track record of owning significant product areas
• Hands-on experience building or shipping products on top of cloud platforms (hyperscaler or specialized cloud) and a strong working knowledge of how cloud-native services are designed, operated, and consumed
• Strong technical fluency: you can lead discussions with platform and cloud native engineers on architecture, trade-offs, and feasibility for distributed systems and multi-tenant platforms
• Demonstrated ability to move from an ambiguous problem space to shipped product outcomes in an infrastructure or platform context
• Experience mentoring or informally leading peers
• Excellent written and verbal communication; you can make complex technical product decisions legible to engineers, customers, and executives alike

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with orchestration and scheduling technology — Kubernetes in particular, plus adjacent primitives such as container runtimes, schedulers (e.g. kube-scheduler, Slurm), operators, service meshes, and workload autoscaling
• Familiarity with GPU scheduling, accelerated computing, or running AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes
• Experience in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, enterprise software, or AI/ML products
• Experience operating in high-growth or early-stage environments

Pay

Salary Range: $110,000—$200,000 USD. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan participation