Senior Product Manager - Platform & Infrastructure

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the age of reasoning. NeuralMesh by WEKA sets the standard for agentic AI data infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that dramatically increase GPU utilization and make AI model training and inference, machine learning, and other compute-intensive workloads run faster, work more efficiently, and consume less energy.

WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We’ve raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world’s largest and most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 of the Fortune 50, achieve discoveries, insights, and business outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about solving our customers’ most complex data challenges to accelerate intelligent innovation and business value. If you share our passion, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

What’s Cool About This Job

At WEKA, we have high performance down cold. This role is ultra focused on delighting customers with our expanding capabilities. Join our cutting-edge team leading Product Management for the parts that are riding on rails—Platform and Infrastructure—where your impact on hardware interfacing will bubble up to every Wekkie and customer as improvements in performance, resiliency, and flexibility. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of technology, contributing to the success of customers who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible with high performance storage. As a key player in our dynamic company, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of protocol services  and make a significant impact in the world of computing.

Bring Your Expertise – and Your Passion

Your domain knowledge stems from storage and networking experience, with your expertise covering its intersection. Important factors leading to your success include:

• Expertise: You have proven experience in product management within the software industry, with a deep understanding of network-based storage systems. You are familiar with the intricacies of high-performance distributed systems and possess a demonstrated ability to drive the development of innovative and forward-thinking solutions.
• Leadership Skills: Strong leadership skills with a history of successfully leading cross-functional teams. Ability to inspire and motivate team members to achieve ambitious goals while maintaining a collaborative and positive working environment.
• Strategic Vision: A strategic thinker who can develop and execute product strategies that align with market trends and customer needs. Proven ability to translate strategic goals into actionable plans and deliver results.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience presenting product strategies and roadmaps to internal teams and external customers.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive product strategy for platform and infrastructure aligned with company goals and market demands
• Create and maintain a detailed product roadmap, ensuring that it reflects the evolving needs of our customers and the ever-changing technology landscape
• Define the strategy and guide development of network- and drive- based features, including RDMA, high availability, and drive health
• Conduct thorough technical analyses, collaborating closely with R&D teams to address performance-related concerns and anomalies
• Build Excel-based complementary tools for Sizing, Pricing, and other purposes
• Working with teams across geographies and business units
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the data management architecture aligns with industry best practices and meets the evolving needs of our customers.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, standards, and emerging technologies related to distributed storage and data engineering workflows, and incorporate these into the product roadmap.
• Work closely with Engineering, UX/UI, Sales, and Support teams to ensure the seamless integration of features and enhancements.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative environment, encouraging open communication and effective teamwork across different departments.

Desired Qualifications

This role requires a strong foundation in both written and verbal communication, especially within a technical context.
Key qualifications include:

• Minimum of 8-10 years of progressive experience in product management, with a focus on storage products using NVMe and SSD drives
• Understanding of PCIe architecture and NVMe drive interfaces
• Demonstrable understanding of RAID- and erasure-coded data protection schemes
• Knowledge of drive failure handling and rebuild processes
• Familiarity with drive performance characteristics (IOPS, throughput, latency)
• Demonstrable understanding of RDMA technologies (InfiniBand, RoCE), GPUDirect Storage integration, and DPDK or other kernel-bypass networking
• Familiarity with network buffer management and zero-copy data paths, NUMA topology, and CPU affinity optimization
• Experience with network interface card offloading, DMA operations, and hardware failure domains
• Excellent listening, oral, and written communication/presentation skills with a strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions

Come prepared to talk about:

• NVMe command sets
• Drive health monitoring
• I/O scheduling and queue depth optimization
• Drive encryption and secure erase methodologies
• Multi-pathing and other drive failover mechanisms
• Ethernet vs. InfiniBand trade-offs and use cases
• Network topology design (fat-tree, mesh, spine-leaf, etc.)
• MTU configuration and its impact
• High availability mechanisms for networked machines, ARP configuration impacts, and broadcast domain management
• Performance isolation between workloads in distributed systems

The WEKA Way:

• We are Accountable: We take full ownership, always–even when things don’t go as planned. We lead with integrity, show up with responsibility & ownership, and hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards.
• We are Brave: We question the status quo, push boundaries, and take smart risks when needed. We welcome challenges and embrace debates as opportunities for growth, turning courage into fuel for innovation.
• We are Collaborative: True collaboration isn’t only about working together. It’s about lifting one another up to succeed collectively. We are team-oriented and communicate with empathy and respect. We challenge each other and conduct positive conflict resolution. We are being transparent about our goals and results. And together, we’re unstoppable.
• We are Customer Centric: Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We actively listen and prioritize the success of our customers, and every decision we make is driven by how we can better serve, support, and empower them to succeed. When our customers win, we win.

Concerned that you don’t meet every qualification above?

Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every qualification specified. At WEKA, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this position but are concerned that your past work experience doesn’t match up perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway – you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at WEKA.

 WEKA is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.