Hardware Platform Product Manager

Company Description:

Nexthop AI is a team of industry-leading professionals with deep hardware and software expertise spanning silicon systems network operations and cloud development dedicated to building innovative bleeding-edge networking solutions for large-scale AI deployments. The team culture thrives on collaboration creativity and fun while delivering foundational technologies for next-generation AI infrastructure.

About the Role:

As a Hardware Platform Product Manager youll work on advanced technologies and products to solve interesting customer problems playing a key role in driving and delivering the platform roadmap.

This role is a great fit for a team player with a creative and learning mindset and with solid engineering depth. Its a great opportunity to work closely with the Nexthop leadership team and help deliver on their vision.

Job Responsibilities:

Be the Subject Matter Expertise for Nexthop hardware platforms

• Deliver exceptional customer experiences through deep expertise in Nexthops products and solutions support key internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with cross-functional Nexthop teams - hardware and software engineering customer engineering marketing and account managers to share knowledge and drive go-to-market for products to market effectively and drive customer adoption
• Proactively develop high quality collateral to support sales and marketing activities
• Build relationships with Nexthops customers - executives engineering and operations teams to communicate product roadmaps and identify specific problems that need to be addressed in the short term or incorporated into product roadmaps

Drive on-time execution of Products

• Identify feature requirements and prioritize balancing internal and external stakeholders and managing expectations
• Continuously engage with Nexthops technology partners to facilitate long term product planning and mid to short term issues
• Continuously refine product management practices tools and processes to drive efficiency scale and effectiveness

Drive product Go-to-Market and Strategy

• Proactively identify risks across the portfolio particularly at the intersection of business and engineering. Develop long and short term mitigation strategies
• Proactively analyze competing systems and solutions deliver high quality analyses to support sales and marketing activity
• Help with product launches industry events conferences and ensure messaging and positioning is aligned towards positive brand creation

Qualifications:

Were seeking individuals who thrive in a fast-paced collaborative startup and possess exceptional problem-solving skills and a strong aptitude for taking initiative and learning. Additionally we value individuals who practice and instill customer empathy. The following skills are essential for this role

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related field - Masters degree or MBA is a plus
• Minimum 10 years of experience as a product manager technical marketing engineer across networking technologies - switching routing hardware systems silicon optics and interconnects
• Minimum 5-7 years experience as a hardware engineer is a plus
• Significant experience with network architectures for Hyperscaler Cloud HPC and AI/ML environments including technology adjacencies
• Proven ability to work independently in a fast paced leading-edge environment bringing domain expertise and enhancing team productivity
• Excellent communication skills - verbal written and presentation

Why Nexthop AI:

Our company combines all the advantages of working at a startup with the expertise of a seasoned team who have successfully built startups into thriving companies. Here youll have the unique opportunity to collaborate and learn from top-tier engineers while still working on mission critical projects. If you are excited to learn solve hard problems at the forefront of computer systems and be a part of shaping a burgeoning company this is the place for you.

Required Experience:

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