Staff Product Manager - Cloud Storage at Lambda

San Francisco, California, United States

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$291,000 – $552,000Compensation

Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

AI, Cloud Computing, TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field
Seven (7) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in product management, including at least four (4) years focused specifically on cloud-scale storage or infrastructure platforms
Proven expertise in designing and delivering large-scale storage platforms, including block, file, and object architectures, for performance-critical workloads
Proven expertise in evaluating and selecting storage technologies through benchmarking of throughput, IOPS, latency, durability, and total cost of ownership
Proven expertise in architecting and managing storage solutions (description cuts off but implied from context)

Responsibilities

Define and execute the long-term vision and strategic roadmap for Lambda’s storage platform across cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring it delivers uncompromising performance, scalability, durability, and cost efficiency for the world’s largest AI workloads
Lead the evaluation, selection, and seamless integration of advanced storage technologies — spanning block, file, and object architectures — using rigorous benchmarking to optimize IOPS, throughput, latency, and total cost of ownership
Translate complex infrastructure capabilities into clear product requirements, precise service-level objectives (SLOs), and measurable performance benchmarks that align with demanding AI and HPC use cases
Architect and implement intelligent data tiering strategies (hot, warm, cold) to maximize performance where it matters and drive significant cost savings at scale
Collaborate with infrastructure and operations leaders to forecast multi-year capacity growth, design for petabyte-to-exabyte scalability, and ensure consistent performance under peak workloads
Define and enforce lifecycle management, replication, and disaster recovery policies that guarantee data integrity, compliance, and near-zero downtime
Own the observability and optimization roadmap for the storage platform, deploying advanced telemetry, monitoring, and analytics to proactively detect and remediate bottlenecks before they impact customers
Partner closely with engineering to drive continuous performance tuning, eliminate systemic inefficiencies, and ensure the platform remains ahead of industry benchmarks

Skills

Key technologies and capabilities for this role

Product ManagementCloud StorageObject StorageBlock StorageFile SystemsSoftware-Defined StorageCloud-Native StorageAI InfrastructureScalabilityStorage Architecture

Questions & Answers

Common questions about this position

What is the salary range for the Staff Product Manager role?

The salary range is $291K - $552K.

Is this position remote or hybrid, and what are the office requirements?

This is a hybrid position requiring presence in the San Francisco or Seattle office 4 days per week, with Tuesday designated as the work-from-home day.

What key skills and expertise are required for this role?

The role requires deep expertise in software-defined and cloud-native storage architectures, including block, file, and object storage, along with skills in benchmarking IOPS, throughput, latency, data tiering, scalability to petabyte/exabyte levels, and lifecycle management.

What is the company culture like at Lambda?

Lambda fosters a fast-paced environment for people who love action and hard problems, focused on building world-changing AI deployments and the best deep learning cloud with the smartest minds.

What makes a strong candidate for this Staff Product Manager position?

A strong candidate is a senior technical leader with deep storage expertise who can define vision, strategy, architecture, integrate technologies, translate requirements to SLOs, and lead engineering teams for AI workloads.

Lambda

Cloud-based GPU services for AI training

About Lambda

Lambda Labs provides cloud-based services for artificial intelligence (AI) training and inference, focusing on large language models and generative AI. Their main product, the AI Developer Cloud, utilizes NVIDIA's GH200 Grace Hopper™ Superchip to deliver efficient and cost-effective GPU resources. Customers can access on-demand and reserved cloud GPUs, which are essential for processing large datasets quickly, with pricing starting at $1.99 per hour for NVIDIA H100 instances. Lambda Labs serves AI developers and companies needing extensive GPU deployments, offering competitive pricing and infrastructure ownership options through their Lambda Echelon service. Additionally, they provide Lambda Stack, a software solution that simplifies the installation and management of AI-related tools for over 50,000 machine learning teams. The goal of Lambda Labs is to support AI development by providing accessible and efficient cloud GPU services.

San Jose, CaliforniaHeadquarters

2012Year Founded

$372.6MTotal Funding

DEBTCompany Stage

AI & Machine LearningIndustries

201-500Employees

Risks

Nebius' holistic cloud platform challenges Lambda's market share in AI infrastructure.

AWS's 896-core instance may draw customers seeking high-performance cloud solutions.

Existential crisis in Hermes 3 model raises concerns about Lambda's AI model reliability.

Differentiation

Lambda offers cost-effective Inference API for AI model deployment without infrastructure maintenance.

Nvidia HGX H100 and Quantum-2 InfiniBand Clusters enhance Lambda's AI model training capabilities.

Lambda's Hermes 3 collaboration showcases advanced AI model development expertise.

Upsides

Inference API launch attracts enterprises seeking low-cost AI deployment solutions.

Nvidia HGX H100 clusters provide competitive edge in high-performance AI computing.

Strong AI cloud service growth indicates rising demand for Lambda's GPU offerings.

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