Senior Product Manager, Orchestration
Crusoe· Product and Design
San Francisco, CA - US, Sunnyvale, CA - US, Bellevue, WA - US$170k - $205k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior Product Manager for Orchestration owning major product areas within Crusoe’s Managed Orchestration portfolio, including Kubernetes lifecycle, control-plane capabilities, node pools/health, managed add-ons, workload scheduling, Slurm on Kubernetes, and APIs/interfaces for large-scale AI infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Own Major Orchestration Product Areas: Take end-to-end ownership of substantial product surfaces, including their roadmap, outcomes, priorities, quality, and continued improvement.
- Develop Durable Technical Product Designs: Turn complex infrastructure problems into clear requirements and coherent system behavior, including APIs, lifecycle states, failure handling, upgrades, and customer controls.
- Partner Closely With Engineering: Work directly with engineers throughout discovery, design, implementation, and validation to resolve ambiguity and shape high-quality solutions.
- Establish a High Product-Quality Bar: Pressure-test designs, evaluate working software, examine edge cases and failure modes, and ensure the product is ready before broad customer release.
- Understand Customers and Operators: Work with customers and internal teams to identify underlying problems and translate them into broadly useful, technically sound product improvements.
- Make Disciplined Product Investments: Prioritize work based on customer value, reliability, differentiation, engineering cost, and operational burden, then measure whether those investments delivered the intended results.
- Coordinate Across the Cloud Platform: Establish clear interfaces and responsibilities across infrastructure, networking, storage, identity, observability, capacity, and workload teams.
- Communicate Clearly: Produce precise requirements and decision documents, and explain technical trade-offs and business implications to diverse stakeholders.
Qualifications
- AI and Machine Learning Infrastructure: Understanding of training, fine-tuning, inference, checkpointing, and GPU-intensive workloads with orchestration systems.
- Strong Technical Fluency: Significant experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, workload orchestration, or related technologies.
- Technical Product Management Experience: Five or more years of experience owning complex technical products or infrastructure initiatives from definition through delivery and iteration.
- Systems Thinking and Attention to Detail: Ability to reason through APIs, lifecycle states, failure modes, upgrades, operational workflows, and dependencies across distributed systems.
- Strong Product Judgment: Ability to balance customer value, reliability, engineering cost, operational complexity, and long-term maintainability.
- Ownership and Execution: Track record of independently driving ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives to clear decisions and high-quality outcomes.
- Clear Communication and Collaboration: Ability to work closely with engineers, document decisions precisely, and create alignment across technical and nontechnical teams.
Skills
Required:KubernetesAPIs and lifecycle managementProduct ownership of technical programsCommunication and stakeholder management
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks & programs specific to location
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Crusoe
The AI factory company | Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach. Deploy AI workloads at scale with reliable performance and 24/7 support.
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