Ampere

Vice President, Product & Engineering

Remote

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
SaaS, Biotechnology, ManufacturingIndustries

About Amper

Amper is an early-stage, VC‑backed SaaS technology company on a mission to modernize manufacturing from the ground up. Our platform is designed to transform legacy shop‑floor complexity into actionable intelligence that empowers teams across the plant to run operations on reality, and help manufacturers reduce costs, increase visibility, and drive efficiency.

The Role

We are looking for a Vice President of Product & Engineering who can help us define what to build, scale how we build it, and lead a high-performing team that turns vision into reality.

We’re hiring a Vice President of Product & Engineering to lead our combined product and engineering functions during a critical phase of company growth. This is a senior leadership role that blends strategy and execution: defining what we build, driving how we build it, and ensuring it all scales.

Reporting to the CEO, you’ll shape product strategy, scale our engineering organization, and bring our next-generation AI-native manufacturing product to life. You’ll work across the stack, from infrastructure to UX, and across teams, helping drive alignment, velocity, and quality. This is not a role for someone looking to inherit a fully built machine. It’s for someone who thrives in early-stage environments, can navigate ambiguity, and wants to help architect the future of a category-defining platform.

While Amper supports remote work, this senior leadership role benefits from in-person collaboration. We have a preference for candidates located in or near Seattle, San Francisco, or Chicago.

What You’ll Do

Product Strategy & Execution

  • Own the full product lifecycle: vision, roadmap, execution, launch, and iteration
  • Define what we build and why, grounded in customer insight, market dynamics, and technical feasibility
  • Drive execution across fast-moving sprints, keeping builds sharp, validated, and high-impact
  • Talk to users regularly to understand real-world needs and validate ideas early and often
  • Partner with Sales and Customer Success to ensure we build what drives real value
  • Build internal systems for product feedback, roadmap visibility, and cross-functional collaboration

Engineering Leadership & Scale

  • Define and drive our technical strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and speed
  • Lead and grow our engineering team, currently five engineers, with plans to scale significantly over the next 12 to 24 months
  • Create a strong engineering culture grounded in accountability, innovation, and velocity
  • Oversee technical delivery across the stack, including our AI/ML systems, APIs, integrations, and cloud infrastructure
  • Implement the practices, tools, and architecture needed to move fast without breaking
  • Ensure alignment between engineering and product so we build the right things the right way

Who You Are

  • 10+ years of experience across both Engineering and Product, with a strong track record of senior level leadership in each. Ideally, you’ve led both functions in a high-growth SaaS, infrastructure, or B2B startup.
  • Experience taking early products to scale, from $0 to $50M+ in revenue, across both technical and business dimensions
  • Experience with IoT systems, real-time telemetry, or AI/ML in decisioning or automation
  • Proven track record of building and scaling teams, systems, and roadmaps
  • Strong product instincts with the technical depth to lead complex engineering decisions
  • Skilled at navigating ambiguity, setting clear priorities, and driving execution
  • Excellent communicator who can align cross-functional stakeholders and simplify complexity
  • Comfortable interfacing with enterprise customers, engineers, and executives alike
  • You take action, close loops, and lead by doing

Bonus If You Have

  • Background in manufacturing, industrial tech, or operations-heavy products
  • Track record of building AI-native products

Employment Details

  • Employment Type: FullTime
  • Location Type: Remote

Compensation & Benefits

  • The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is $225,000-275,000, with additional incentive pote

Skills

Product Strategy
Product Roadmap
Product Execution
SaaS
AI
Manufacturing
Leadership
Agile Methodologies
Customer Insight
Market Dynamics
Technical Feasibility
UX
Infrastructure

Ampere

Manufactures high-performance processors for cloud computing

About Ampere

Ampere Computing creates high-performance processors specifically for cloud computing applications, achieving significant performance improvements over competitors. Their processors are designed for sustainability, delivering high performance while using less power through a unique architecture and efficient design. Targeting data centers and businesses, Ampere's scalable processors cater to various environments, from large cloud data centers to edge computing. The company also offers developer tools and resources to support the creation of cloud-native solutions.

Santa Clara, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2017Year Founded
$369.6MTotal Funding
SECONDARYCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Risks

AWS's 896-core instance challenges Ampere's high-performance computing position.
Potential Arm acquisition may disrupt Ampere's business model and focus.
Oracle's lower CPU core pricing could affect Ampere's competitiveness.

Differentiation

Ampere's processors offer 50% higher performance than Genoa and 68% than Bergamo.
Their single-threaded core architecture ensures high performance with lower power consumption.
Ampere's Altra Family scales from 32 to 128 cores, suitable for diverse environments.

Upsides

Ampere's partnership with Qualcomm enhances their AI-specific cloud solutions.
The expansion to 256 cores in AmpereOne attracts high core density seekers.
Focus on sustainable computing aligns with eco-conscious market demands.

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