Director of Product Management, High Performance AI and Compute Power
About this role
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.