About the RoleWe're looking for a Technical Product Marketing Manager to own product marketing for vLLM and Inferact across launches, positioning, technical narratives, partner announcements, and sales enablement.
This is a hands-on role for someone who can translate complex AI infrastructure into credible developer-facing messaging, work directly with engineers and ecosystem partners, and build repeatable launch systems that scale. You will own day-0 launch communications, product positioning, the benchmark narrative, customer proof, and the forward product marketing roadmap.
30-60-90 Day Milestones30 Days: Outside Counsel Alignment & Contracting Intake- Become the single owner for launch communications across vLLM and Inferact, including blog, social copy, partner coordination, and the internal readiness checklist.
- Ship at least two launches as primary author and publish a launch playbook that engineers and partners can follow without additional direction.
- Build a competitive teardown of recent launches and use it to establish the quality bar for future launches.
60 Days: Frontier AI & Regulatory Strategy- Own positioning and messaging, including personas, competitive talk tracks, and website product pages.
- Own partnership announcements with ecosystem partners such as Google, AMD, and NVIDIA from messaging through launch day.
- Own the sales collateral kit and standard vLLM plus Inferact talk template, and run enablement for engineers presenting externally.
- Own product messaging across vLLM and Inferact, including technical product breakdowns, benefits, customer case studies, and supporting GTM materials in close partnership with GTM teams.
90 Days: Scalable Legal Infrastructure- Present a 2027 product marketing plan covering launch tiers, the benchmark program, case study pipeline, and partner relationships.
- Bring market and customer input into the product roadmap and pricing and packaging discussions.
- Create a structured feedback loop between Marketing and Sales with Product and Engineering, ensuring customer, market, and GTM feedback consistently flows into product and launch decisions.
- Build and operationalize a repeatable marketing process for launching vLLM and Inferact content, covering intake, messaging, review, distribution, partner amplification, and post-launch measurement.
Skills and QualificationsMinimum qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience as an engineer or developer.
- Experience owning product marketing or developer relations for open-source software, LLM infrastructure, AI infrastructure, or developer tools.
- Strong product marketing fundamentals across positioning, messaging, audience definition, narrative development, launches, and practical GTM execution.
- Ability to write and edit technical launch content that is credible with developers, ML engineers, and infrastructure engineers.
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, leadership, design, sales, and external partners.
- Hands-on execution mindset with the ability to build launch systems, templates, and playbooks in a fast-moving startup environment.
Preferred qualifications:- Deep familiarity with AI infrastructure, model serving, vLLM, open-source infrastructure, cloud platforms, or GPU ecosystems.
- Experience owning benchmark narratives, technical product pages, customer case studies, or developer-facing sales enablement.
- Experience leading joint GTM with cloud providers, hardware vendors, model companies, or open-source ecosystem partners.
- Track record building product marketing programs from 0 to 1 and turning reactive launch work into a proactive roadmap.
Bonus points if you have:- Direct experience marketing inference, model serving, or other performance-sensitive AI infrastructure.
- Experience launching open-source projects or commercial products built around an open-source ecosystem.
- Ability to create lightweight technical assets, landing pages, demos, or workflows using modern AI and no-code tools.
Logistics- Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site)
- Compensation: Compensation determined based on background, skills, and experience. Offers include competitive base salary & meaningful equity.
- Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis.
- Benefits: Inferact offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits as well as 401(k) company match.
