Senior Product Manager - Strategics

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 focused on working with and leading our business with WEKA’s strategic customer segments. Our strategic segment will required you to work on our largest customers with exabyte-scale deployments and toughest problems at the cutting edge of AI, Data and High Performance Computing. You will lead WEKA’s outbound Product efforts while partnering closely with our Architecture and Engineering Leads in crafting and managing the right product evolution.  As a key player in our dynamic company, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of data and storage infrastructure amidst the explosion of innovation in the AI ecosystem.

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 outbound customer focused product management within our 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, motivate and align a high performing team 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:

• Define and development the engagement strategy for Strategic customers - aligned with business growth and Product/R&D roadmap.
• Build detailed product requirements that capture the technical requirements from customers, to drive clarity with engineering and architecture teams.
• Idea with CTO office, Architecture team on the cutting edge solutions that only strategic customers are pursuing, and how to evolve WEKA’s product portfolio to lead in the future.
• Create and maintain a detailed product roadmap and intersect this with the customer direction and Customer Success teams for specific milestones, ensuring that it reflects the evolving needs of our customers - both tactical and strategic/directional.
• Dive deep into competitive technologies - to form an early point of view on WEKA’s differentiation into the future.
• Working with teams across geographies and business units

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 or customer facing solutions role with a focus on storage, analytics or AI products.
• Experience working with customers on large scale data infrastructure implementations - and associated considerations for Performance, Serviceability, High Availability, Disaster Recovery and ever evolving compute requirements.
• Understanding of NVME Flash based storage technologies.
• Familiarity with drive performance characteristics (IOPS, throughput, latency)
• Demonstrable understanding of GPU-centric use cases for RDMA technologies (InfiniBand, RoCE), GPUDirect Storage integration
• Familiarity with network buffer management and zero-copy data paths, NUMA topology, and CPU affinity optimization
• Excellent listening, oral, and written communication/presentation skills with a strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions
• Familiarity with Jira and Github for organizing product input, structure boards with R&D

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.

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