Product Manager - Storage Networking Platform

About WEKA WEKA is redefining the enterprise data stack for the age of AI. Our platform enables the world’s most advanced organizations to run high-performance workloads - from large-scale model training to real-time inference - faster and more efficiently. WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We’ve raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world’s largest and most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 of the Fortune 50, achieve discoveries, insights, and business outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about solving our customers’ most complex data challenges to accelerate intelligent innovation and business value. If you share our passion, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey. The Role This is a rare opportunity to: • Have a direct impact on AI performance and GPU efficiency at scale • Combine deep technical thinking with product ownership • Own product decisions that influence real-world system behavior As a Product Manager at WEKA, you will define how next-generation AI workloads interact with high-performance storage and networking systems. This is a deep-tech product role at the core of our platform , where your decisions directly impact performance, scalability, and efficiency across large-scale AI environments. You’ll operate at the intersection of product, distributed systems, and hardware-aware infrastructure - shaping how modern data platforms are built and optimized. What You'll Do • Define and execute product strategy for WEKA’s platform and infrastructure layer • Own the product roadmap - balancing innovation, performance, and customer needs • Work closely with engineering to design and deliver high-performance capabilities • Translate complex technical challenges into clear product decisions and priorities • Partner with customers and internal teams to understand real-world use cases and constraints • Stay ahead of trends in storage, networking, and distributed systems • Collaborate with top engineers, architects, and customers solving cutting-edge challenges What You Bring You’re a product thinker with a strong technical foundation, who enjoys going deep into complex systems. You might come from one (or more) of these backgrounds: • Product Manager in infrastructure / platform / deep-tech domains • Software Engineer or Architect who transitioned into product • Sales Engineer highly experienced with storage, networking, or distributed systems Your Experience Includes • Experience in one or more of the following: • Storage systems (e.g., NVMe, SSDs, RAID) • Networking / high-performance protocols (e.g., RDMA, DPDK) • Distributed systems / infrastructure platforms • Ability to work closely with engineering on complex technical challenges • Strong communication skills - able to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders • Experience driving product decisions in fast-paced environments Nice to Have • Familiarity with technologies like RDMA (InfiniBand, RoCE), GPUDirect Storage, or kernel-bypass networking • Understanding of performance optimization (latency, throughput, IOPS) • Experience with large-scale data or AI infrastructure