Product Manager - AI Infrastructure Platform

About Hammerhead

Hammerhead is building the software platform that powers the next generation of AI infrastructure. We address one of the most pressing bottlenecks for AI - access to power - by optimizing data center power infrastructure so that operators can do more with the capacity they already have, without requiring new power plants or grid expansions.

Our platform uses reinforcement learning to intelligently orchestrate power, cooling, and compute in real time - enabling data centers to run significantly more AI workloads within their existing electrical and thermal limits. Our team has optimized over 8 gigawatts of mission-critical power globally, and we're dramatically reducing the environmental footprint of AI infrastructure.

At Hammerhead, you will:

• Work at the intersection of AI, energy, and compute - creating the next generation of AI infrastructure

• Collaborate with colleagues that are experts in modern RL and AI, IoT and IIoT software, and infrastructure technologies

• Contribute to building a more efficient and sustainable future for AI compute

• Join a company at the cutting edge of modern data center design and operation

• Receive competitive compensation, equity, and benefits in a high-growth, mission-driven environment

• Learn from an experienced team that has built and sold startups before

About the Role

We are seeking a Product Manager - AI Infrastructure Platform to own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for Hammerhead's orchestration platform. You will define what we build, why we build it, and how it reaches customers - translating deep technical understanding of data center power, cooling, and compute systems into product requirements that engineering can ship and customers can deploy.

Hammerhead's platform sits at the intersection of reinforcement learning, real-time control systems, and physical infrastructure. The PM for this product needs to think across all three - understanding how AI workloads behave, how power and cooling systems respond, and how data center operators make decisions. You will work directly with our RL and software engineering teams, our deployment and customer success functions, and our GTM team to ensure the product delivers measurable value at every customer site.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for Hammerhead's orchestration platform - defining priorities across the RL engine, control interfaces, monitoring and observability, deployment tooling, and customer-facing dashboards.

• Translate customer needs, deployment learnings, and market signals into clear, actionable product requirements that engineering can execute against with minimal ambiguity.

• Work directly with the RL and software engineering teams to define technical specifications, manage tradeoffs between model performance and operational constraints, and drive sprint-level execution.

• Serve as the product voice in customer and partner engagements - joining technical discovery calls, deployment reviews, and pilot design sessions to deeply understand how operators interact with the platform.

• Define and track key product metrics: deployment success rates, time-to-value, system reliability, workload throughput, and customer satisfaction - using data to inform roadmap decisions.

• Shape the product's technical positioning and messaging in collaboration with the GTM team - ensuring our value proposition resonates with both technical buyers and business stakeholders.

• Build the product management function from scratch - establishing processes for requirements gathering, prioritization frameworks, release planning, and cross-functional coordination as the team scales.

  Qualifications

  Required

  • 5+ years of product management experience in infrastructure, cloud platforms, or technical systems - with at least 2 years working on products that interface with physical infrastructure (data centers, energy systems, IoT/IIoT, or industrial controls).

  • Experience building 0-to-1 products in a startup or high-growth environment. You are comfortable defining product strategy with incomplete information and building processes from scratch.

  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and priorities that engineering teams can build against with confidence.

  • Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, customer-facing, and go-to-market teams - and managing diverse stakeholder needs across technical and business audiences.

  • Strong understanding of how AI compute workloads are provisioned, deployed, and operated - including the tradeoffs between training and inference, on-demand vs. reserved capacity, and performance vs. cost optimization.

  • Excellent communication skills: you can present a product roadmap to the CEO, walk through technical specs with an ML engineer, and demo the platform to a customer's VP of Infrastructure in the same day.

  • Daily, demonstrated active use of AI tools (LLMs, code assistants, automation) to enhance workflows and the product management function.

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

  Preferred

  • Building and shipping customer centric products, with an eye for industrial design

  • Experience with reinforcement learning, real-time control systems, or ML-driven optimization products.

  • Background in data center operations, power systems engineering, energy markets, or grid-connected infrastructure.

  • Prior work with colocation operators, GPU cloud providers, or hyperscalers - understanding how these buyers evaluate and adopt infrastructure software.

  • Familiarity with data center economics: power contracts, SLA structures, capacity planning, and operational cost models.

  • Experience at a hyper-growth startup (Seed-Series B) in AI infrastructure, data center, or energy technology.

  • MBA or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

    Benefits

    • Make an impact. Solve the AI power bottleneck and shape how data centers scale sustainably.

    • World-class team. Join AI, cloud, software, and energy experts in a collaborative, low-ego environment.

    • Build from 0 to 1. Influence product strategy, technical direction, and customer outcomes from day one.

    • Competitive pay + equity. Stock options let you share in the value you help create.

    • Comprehensive benefits. Medical, dental, and vision.

    • On-site in Redwood City, CA. 5 days a week at HQ, with periodic travel to deployment sites.

    We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation.