Staff Product Manager

Loft Labs

Senior Product Manager owning technical direction for the vCluster platform, collaborating with engineering and product leadership in a hyper-growth startup environment.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Technical Roadmap Ownership: Set the roadmap for your product surface and translate strategy into specs engineering can execute against.
Founder Partnership: Work directly with the Head of Product and Engineering leadership on the architecture tradeoffs that determine the product's trajectory.
Hands-on Validation: Run alpha and beta builds yourself. Catch integration issues before customers do.
Customer Intelligence: Engage directly with platform engineers at AI Cloud operators, regulated enterprises, and large internal platform teams.
Market Positioning: Track the cloud-native ecosystem and emerging tenancy primitives.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Bridge engineering, sales, and marketing so what we ship matches how we sell and support it.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience: 6+ years in product management, in cloud infrastructure, platform services, or distributed systems. You've shipped something other engineers depend on in production.
Kubernetes Fluency: You operate at the implementation level — controllers, CRDs, API machinery, admission webhooks — not just as a user.
Customer-Facing Infra Experience: You've sat across from platform engineers and architects, and you're comfortable in that conversation.
Bonus Points For
Kubernetes-as-a-Service: Built a KaaS offering at a cloud provider, vendor, or large internal platform team.
AI & MLOps Infrastructure: GPU scheduling, multi-tenant accelerator workloads, LLM deployment patterns.
Internal Developer Platforms: Platform PM experience building IDPs that abstract infrastructure complexity for developer teams.
Bare Metal & HPC: Worked with or built for bare metal infrastructure or high-performance computing environments.
Startup Growth: Navigated a Series A through C scaling phase.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.
Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
Workplace Flexibility: We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementcloud infrastructureplatform servicesdistributed systemsKubernetesGPU schedulingmulti-tenant accelerator workloadsLLM deployment patternsinternal developer platformsbare metal infrastructure

Soft Skills

cross-functional leadershipcustomer intelligencehands-on validationmarket positioningfounder partnership