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Principal Product Manager

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-20 → 2026-07-26

Core

Drive high-impact capacity planning, supply/demand balancing, fleet health, and platform transitions using AI-driven analysis and automation to optimize fleet efficiency and reliability.

Role type

Principal Product Manager (Infrastructure & Capacity)

Builds

Multi-year capacity investments, platform transition strategies, and AI-forward operational workflows for a growing fleet.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Fleet Operations / AI Ops

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

AI fluency (agents, automation, prototyping), capacity planning, supply/demand balancing, systems-level problem solving, financial judgment, stakeholder alignment, OKR/KPI definition, executive communication, mentoring.

Preferred skills

Experience with telemetry and operational data analysis, experience disrupting markets, experience leading large-scale cloud infrastructure.

Technologies

AI agents, automation tools, telemetry systems, operational data platforms.

Responsibilities

Forecast capacity and reliability issues using AI analysis, model hardware tradeoffs via AI prototyping, set success metrics and shape investment priorities, explain technical/financial tradeoffs to executives, mentor product managers.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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## About the role Take on high-impact problems across the charter, including capacity planning, supply and demand balancing, fleet health, platform transitions, and decommissioning, and drive them to a result. Use AI-driven analysis of demand signals, telemetry, and operational data to forecast more accurately, catch capacity and reliability issues early, and fix them at the root. Use agents, automation, and AI Ops to analyze data, coordinate work, and act on what you learn. Model capacity and hardware tradeoffs with AI prototyping and scenario testing before committing investment, paired with solid product, engineering, and financial judgment. Weigh cost, performance, and reliability against each other, and prioritize multi-year capacity investments with partners across engineering, finance, and supply chain. Advance platform and hardware transition strategy, and help the fleet run more efficiently as workloads grow. Set success metrics, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), and KPIs (key performance indicators), and shape investment priorities with leadership. Explain complex technical and financial tradeoffs to executives in a way that leads to decisions. Mentor other product managers and move the team toward better, AI-forward ways of working. ## Requirements - Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development - These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: - Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience. - 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework). - 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn). - 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product). - Experience taking on ambiguous, high-stakes work and driving it from strategy through execution across organizations. - Experience leading large-scale cloud infrastructure, capacity planning, or distributed systems work, with grasp of hyperscale service delivery. - AI fluency, including using AI agents, automation, and prototyping to speed up analysis, decisions, and product work. - Experience using telemetry, demand signals, and operational data to guide platform and investment decisions. - Systems-level problem solving and clear communication, with the ability to influence senior leaders and align stakeholders across organizations.
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