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, focusing on GPU listing, pricing, discovery, rental, and trust. The role involves identifying high-impact problems, creating specifications, and managing product launches, with initial focus areas in search & discovery, reliability & trust, onboarding & activation, and launch & enablement.
Responsibilities
- Find the highest-impact problems in the marketplace.
- Turn problems into crisp specifications.
- Drive product development through engineering.
- Own metrics such as time-to-first-rental, rental reliability, and revenue retention.
- Improve search & discovery to help customers find the right GPU at the right price.
- Provide hosts with tools to price and position supply.
- Enhance reliability & trust to ensure seamless rentals and provide hosts with verification signals.
- Streamline onboarding & activation for new customers and hosts.
- Manage launch & enablement, including release communications and documentation.
- Ensure support, sales, and marketing alignment for product releases.
Requirements
- 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.
- AI-native understanding and daily use of AI agents.
- Deep technical understanding of infrastructure, including Linux, Docker, VRAM, and APIs.
- Marketplace-minded approach, reasoning about liquidity, incentives, and trust.
- Biased toward action and shipping solutions quickly.
Skills
- Product Management
- Technical Product Management
- Software Engineering
- Software Infrastructure
- Developer Tooling
- APIs
- SDKs
- CLIs
- AI/ML
- Cloud Computing
- GPUs
- Two-sided Marketplaces
- Startup Environment
- Linux
- Docker
- VRAM
- Marketplace Dynamics
- Agile Development
Location
- Los Angeles (Westwood)
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000–$210,000 base plus equity
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
About the Company
- Vast.ai's cloud powers AI projects and businesses globally, democratizing and decentralizing AI computing.
- The company is a growing, highly motivated team with an ambitious technical plan, a flat structure, and a culture where leadership is earned by shipping excellence.
