Product Manager, Strategic Verticals

About the role

As a founding member of the Strategic Verticals product team at Cerebras, you are the tip of the spear for our company. You'll embed with our most strategic customers, from AI-native startups shipping 0-to-1 products to Fortune 500 enterprises transforming their industries, to translate and guide their ambitions into blazing-fast, production-ready AI solutions. Think of yourself as part product leader, part technical expert, and part GTM strategist: Own the outcome - From first whiteboard session to scaled deployment, you are directly accountable for customer success, adoption, and expansion. Design for speed - Craft PoCs that showcase Cerebras' latency super-powers, advise on model selection / fine-tuning, and benchmark end-to-end performance. Navigate complexities - pitch new ideas, align internal and customer stakeholders, unblock hurdles, and convert customer interest into long-term, thriving partnerships. Shape the roadmap - Distill customer insights into structured product feedback requirements, influencing future software features and chip and cluster designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the product leader on our most critical lighthouse accounts, each pushing the limits of what’s possible with GenAI.
• Engage directly with companies from AI Natives at the cutting edge to large enterprises transforming their industries, to deeply understand their needs, goals, and requirements.
• Co-architect solutions—partner with Solutions Architects, Account Managers, and our Engineering and Product teams to design tailored solutions that leverage our 10x faster speed advantages to transform customer applications.
• Directly advise on customers’ long-term AI strategies.
• Be a go-to-market ninja. You will be co-owning the end-to-end customer journey, working across Sales, Solutions Architects, Marketing, Engineering, and Product teams to convert interest into long-term usage and expansion.
• Identify new collaboration opportunities and use cases within accounts to expand Cerebras’ partnership with them.
• Drive the product roadmap, working closely with engineering, ML, and other product teams across the company to bring your deep understanding of customer requirements to drive future feature development.

Skills & Qualifications

• Strong technical background (CS/EE background, or prior experience as a SWE), and familiarity with LLMs, inference needs, agents, etc.
• 5+ years of experience as a product manager or SWE, currently at or above the level of Senior PM or SWE. Ideally, on a developer-facing product.
• Excellent ability to communicate with customers and navigate complex, high-stakes scenarios.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial sense of ownership of overall team and product success, and the ability to make things happen around you.
• A bias towards getting things done, owning the solution, and driving problems to resolution.
• Deep passion for creative problem solving and customer success.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with LLM serving stacks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, TGI), agent frameworks, etc.
• Interest in developer platforms and tooling.
• MBA of equivalent professional experience.