Job Summary:The Technical Product Management Lead will serve as the technical face of the product to customers, partners, and the broader industry. This role will lead detailed specification negotiations and technical engagements with customer architecture teams, translating customer constraints and needs into clear, actionable product requirements. The Lead will partner closely with engineering on product priorities, trade-offs, testing, and documentation while owning specifications at the customer boundary. This individual will also develop technical content-including white papers, application notes, reference architectures, and conference materials-and represent the company at industry conferences and standards organizations.
Responsibilities:- Lead technical engagement with customer architecture teams - design and architecture reviews.
- Lead detailed specification negotiation with lead customers, from first draft through agreed sign-off.
- Own spec definition at the customer boundary: how performance is measured, what a test proves.
- Provide product management support to engineering - requirements, priorities and trade documentation.
- Author white papers, application notes, reference architectures and conference material.
- Feed customer-side constraints back into product definition as first-class requirements.
- Represent the company technically at conferences and in standards work.
Experience/Qualifications:- 10+ years in datacenter networking with real depth in switch and fabric architecture; product management or product-owner experience.
- Has been the vendor architect in a room of skeptical buyers and won on merit.
- Practical grasp of the optical layer as a networking engineer uses it: link budgets, transceiver compatibility, reach and loss margin.
- Excellent written communication - a large share of the role is documents that survive scrutiny without you present.
Base pay is one part of the total compensation package. Full-time roles are eligible for equity and benefits. Our compensation ranges reflect the cost of labor across multiple U.S. geographic markets, and we pay based on defined geographic zones. This position may be filled within one of the following U.S. geographic zones, each with its own salary range.
Actual compensation may vary outside of these ranges and is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's qualifications, relevant education and training, competencies, experience, geographic location, business needs, and internal equity. Your recruiter can share more details about the salary range applicable to your location during the hiring process.
- Zone 1 - Bay Area and NYC
- Zone 2 - Examples include Los Angeles and Washington DC
- Zone 3 - Examples include Austin, Chicago, and Sacramento
- Zone 4 - Examples include Nashville and Phoenix/Tempe and many remote locations
This position includes the following benefits: competitive health coverage for you and your dependents, 401(k) with company match, equity grants, access to financial wellness tools and planning resources, wellness benefits, family support programs, life and disability insurance, paid leave programs, company-designated paid holidays, discretionary time off (DTO), and an end-of-year company shutdown. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements and may vary based on location, role, or employment status. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
The estimated annual base salary range for this role is:
Zone 1
$208,300-$244,700 USD
Zone 2
$187,400-$220,200 USD
Zone 3
$166,600-$195,800 USD
Zone 4
$145,800-$171,300 USD
