Technical Product Manager, AI Storage

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kazakhstan.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the vision, roadmap, and priorities for k0rdent AI storage.

• Establish how customers will design, automate, and manage parallel file systems, object storage, tiering, snapshots, data protection, and related storage functionalities.

• Convert requirements from NeoClouds, GPU clouds, telecoms, sovereign clouds, and enterprise platform teams into actionable product direction.

• Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to define requirements, assess trade-offs, and deliver secure, scalable, and reliable storage capabilities.

• Oversee the storage backlog utilizing feedback from production deployments and design partners.

• Determine the positioning, packaging, and competitive differentiation for k0rdent AI storage.

• Develop technical briefs, battlecards, and reference architectures.

• Act as the storage product lead for strategic accounts.

• Represent Mirantis at events, analyst briefings, and customer advisory boards.

• Collaborate with storage, silicon, and ecosystem partners on aligning reference architectures.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in product management, technical product management, or a senior technical role overseeing a storage product, platform, or extensive storage estate.

• Practical knowledge of parallel and distributed file systems (Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS, WEKA, VAST, DAOS).

• Understanding of S3-compatible object storage and block storage at scale.

• Proficient in Linux storage systems.

• Expertise in Kubernetes storage (CSI, dynamic provisioning, storage classes).

• Knowledgeable in software-defined storage, hyperscale or service provider storage, or storage automation.

• Hands-on experience with contemporary GPU cluster storage, including GPUDirect Storage and RDMA data paths, NVMe-oF, and hot/warm/cold tiering for training datasets and checkpoints, as well as high-throughput ingest pipelines.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Participation in conferences and working groups.

• Customized workstation options (macOS or Windows).

• Competitive compensation package accompanied by a robust benefits plan.

• Stock options.

• Work with a well-established leader in the Silicon Valley cloud infrastructure sector.

• Collaborate with passionate, talented, and engaging colleagues.

• Be part of pioneering open-source innovation.

• Thrive in a high-energy environment that values openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continual growth.