Director of Product Management, High Performance AI and Compute Power

Team Leadership & Development

• Build and Hire: Develop, retain and recruit talented product managers with diverse experience levels. Establish hiring criteria and interview processes aligned with organizational needs.
• Drive Accountability: Define roles, responsibilities, and success metrics for each PM. Establish clear ownership of products and outcomes. Hold team members accountable to commitments.
• Build Culture: Foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performing team environment. Encourage knowledge-sharing across the organization. Instill sense of urgency and ownership. Lead by example in customer-first mindset.
Product Strategy & Portfolio Management

• Own the Roadmap: Define and communicate the product strategy, portfolio vision, and roadmap for the HPAC product line. Align with market demands, emerging trends, and business objectives.
• Identify Opportunities: Stay abreast of technology trends in cloud infrastructure and compute markets; identify new market segments, emerging applications, and growth opportunities; develop recommendations for portfolio expansion.
• Lead Product Definition: Guide the team in developing market requirement documents, business cases, and competitive analyses for new product concepts; ensure strategic alignment and resource prioritization.
• Manage the Pipeline: Monitor the health of the new product development funnel. Establish and track KPIs that indicate portfolio health, market traction, development progress, and revenue potential. 
• Manage Portfolio Economics: Define and manage pricing strategies, cost structures, and margin targets for assigned products. Optimize portfolio profitability.
Operational Excellence & Process Development

• Scale Product Management: Establish product management processes, standards, and best practices designed to support mass-market operations and organizational growth.
• Develop Systems & Frameworks: Create templates, processes, and decision-making frameworks for product launches, go-to-market planning, pricing strategy, and customer engagement.
• Enable the Team: Establish processes, methods, and training programs that enable product managers to work more effectively and efficiently at scale.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Ensure full alignment with engineering, marketing and sales. Establish clear communication channels, handoff points, and governance structures.
• Continuous Improvement: Regularly review and refine processes based on team feedback and market outcomes. Drive data-driven decision-making across the organization.
• Drive the develop of best-in-class product documentation, including customer presentations, training material, product erratas, application notes, etc. Ensure compelling product collaterals and materials are developed.
Cross-Functional Leadership

• Executive Engagement: Present product strategy, portfolio health, market opportunities, and financial projections to senior leadership. Ensure executive alignment with HPAC product plans.
• Global Operations: Work effectively with distributed teams across multiple global offices. Drive cross-cultural collaboration and alignment.

Function: Manufacturing
Experience Level: Director