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Born at X, Google’s moonshot factory, Taara works with telecommunications providers, partners, and internal teams to plan, deploy, and operate optical wireless networks around the world.\nAs Taara scales deployments and evolves its products, we are looking for a Data Center Product Manager to define and evolve products that enable high-capacity, reliable connectivity within and between data centers and network facilities.\nAbout the Role:\nThis role, Product Manager: Data Centers, focuses on shaping Taara’s products for data center and infrastructure use cases. You will work closely with engineering, UX design, and customer-facing teams to translate real-world networking infrastructure needs into clear product requirements. Your work will ensure Taara’s connectivity solutions meet the performance, availability, and scalability expectations of data center environments. This work is suited for someone comfortable working with data center topologies, multiple connectivity needs in data centers - rack to rack, intrarack, building to building, and data center to point of presence, network constraints, and complex deployment environments.\nHow you will make 10x impact:\nOwn the product definition and evolution of products supporting data center and infrastructure connectivity use cases.\n\nTranslate customer, partner, and internal needs into clear product requirements, workflows, and roadmaps.\n\nDefine product requirements related to capacity, latency, availability, redundancy, scalability, and operational constraints.\n\nPartner closely with engineering to balance technical feasibility, product performance, and deployment realities.\n\nDefine and track key product metrics related to performance, availability, adoption, and operational effectiveness.\n\nIncorporate learnings from deployments and live environments into ongoing iteration and continuous improvement.Taara’s data center and infrastructure products meet enterprise expectations for availability, performance, and scalability.\n\nProduct requirements are clear and actionable, enabling engineering teams to build with confidence and minimal rework.\n\nDeployments integrate smoothly into existing data center and network environments.\n\nWhat you should have:\n5+ years of experience in product management for infrastructure, networking, or technical systems.\n\n2+ years in data center environment\n\n1+ years of experience building 0-1 products\n\nExperience translating complex technical needs into clear product requirements and priorities.\n\nUnderstanding connectivity needs within data center environments, network infrastructure, or large-scale technical systems.\n\nAbility to work cross-functionally with engineering, UX design, and customer-facing teams.\n\nExperience using data, operational signals, and user feedback to inform product decisions.\n\nStrong communication skills and the ability to explain product decisions to diverse stakeholders.\n\nBackground in networking, telecom, cloud infrastructure, or related domain a plus.\n\nComfort operating in technically complex, ambiguous environments.\n\nAbility to work in the Sunnyvale office at least 3 days per week.\n\nIt would be great if you also had these:\nFamiliarity with Optical circuit switching\n\nKnowledge of Optical networking\n\nKnowledge of existing high speed data center inter-connect technologies like Infini Band\n\nThe US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000-$220,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. 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