Technical Product Manager, Marketplace

Vast.ai Inc

$150K — $210K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience as a product manager, focusing on technical or developer-centric products.
  • Preferred: 3+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Experience in software infrastructure, developer tooling, AI/ML, cloud computing, or two-sided marketplaces.
  • Experience at a fast-paced startup or rapid growth environment.
  • Deep understanding of infrastructure concepts such as Linux, Docker, and APIs.

Responsibilities

  • Identify high-impact problems in the GPU marketplace and draft detailed specifications.
  • Enhance the search and discovery experience for customers and pricing tools for hosts.
  • Ensure reliability in rentals and develop tools for hosts to maintain machine health.
  • Facilitate onboarding for new customers and hosts to encourage first-time usage.
  • Coordinate release communications and documentation to align support and marketing efforts.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Meaningful equity participation in a growing company.
  • Onsite meals, snacks, and close interaction with company leaders.
  • Dynamic and fast-paced startup culture that values initiative.
  • Budget dedicated to advancing AI agent capabilities.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Vast.ai is seeking a Technical Product Manager to drive the product at the heart of our two-sided GPU cloud marketplace: how GPUs get listed, priced, found, rented, and trusted.

The Scale: With over 20k GPUs, our Cloud platform powers thousands of bleeding-edge AI training runs and critical production workloads for 120k+ developers all over the planet. This is a product with real scale, real data, and real users from day one. The work you ship moves tangible revenue in weeks, not quarters.

The Challenge: We don't own the GPUs. Thousands of independent hosts price and operate them, and no two machines are alike. Your job is to make that heterogeneous, decentralized supply feel like a top-tier cloud that just works: the right GPU at the right price, for every workload.

What You'll Own

You'll find the highest-impact problems in the marketplace, turn them into crisp specs, and drive them through engineering and out the door. You'll own the metrics that prove it worked: time-to-first-rental, rental reliability, revenue retention. Initial focus areas:
  • Search & discovery. Help customers find the right GPU at the right price, and give hosts the tools to price and position supply.
  • Reliability & trust. Give customers rentals that just work, and give hosts the signals and tools to keep their machines healthy and verified.
  • Onboarding & activation. Help new customers reach their first successful rental, and help new hosts stand up their first GPU listing.
  • Launch & enablement. Nothing ships silently: own release comms and docs, and get support, sales, and marketing behind every release.


Ideal Experience
  • 3+ years of experience as a product manager, preferably for a highly technical or developer-centric product
  • Preferred: 3+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Industry experience in one or more of the following areas: software infrastructure, developer tooling (APIs, SDKs, CLIs), AI/ML, cloud computing, GPUs, or two-sided marketplaces
  • Experience at a fast-paced startup or rapid growth team


You Are
  • AI-native. You work with AI agents every day, and you want to build the marketplace the AI era runs on.
  • Deeply technical. You speak fluent infrastructure - Linux, Docker, VRAM, APIs - with the engineers who build it.
  • Marketplace-minded. You reason about liquidity, incentives, and trust as naturally as features and funnels.
  • Biased toward action. You'd rather ship the fix today than present the plan next week.


Interview Process
  • Initial screening (virtual)
  • Deep dive on the role and your experience (virtual)
  • Live product assessment (virtual)
  • In person panel interview and product assessment (on-site)


Annual Salary Range

$150,000-$210,000 base depending on experience, plus equity. We're profitable, venture-backed, and growing, so the equity is a stake in a real company with a real valuation, not a lottery ticket.

Benefits
  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Meaningful early-stage equity
  • Onsite meals, snacks, and close collaboration with founders/tech leaders
  • Ambitious, fast-paced startup culture where initiative is rewarded
  • Ample AI agent budget


LOCATION: On-site at our office in Los Angeles (Westwood).

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