Director, Product Management at Rescale (W12)
High Performance Computing Built for the Cloud
Remote (United States) / Remote (US)
Full-time
About Rescale

Rescale provides a global software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation.

  • We provide the largest, most secure, global high performance computing (HPC) footprint seamlessly integrated into an easy-to-use platform built for engineers and scientists. We are disrupting the staid on premise HPC world.
  • Not that long ago, we were a team of two, who rendered the Boeing 787 wing on commodity hardware, saving $150M in the process. Now we are a team of 50+ software engineers, computer scientists, and domain experts, helping advanced tech companies bring their complex use cases to the cloud.
  • Investors in Rescale include Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Chris Dixon, and Paul Graham, among others.
About the role

Rescale is disrupting the $40B high performance computing (HPC) market by accelerating its transition towards cloud computing. Companies use HPC to create the applied science and engineering innovations we use every day, including safer cars, faster jets, new electronics devices, and AI-enabled services. Rescale’s customers range from disruptive and innovative startups to leading companies in nearly every industry.

Rescale is expanding the modeling and simulation workflow by integrating data management and AI development into a single platform experience. We are accelerating engineering breakthroughs by delivering a multi-cloud platform that orchestrates modeling and simulation on top of the most common CAE software and latest coretypes available. We enable our customers to: 

  1. Get products to market faster by replacing the bottleneck of fixed on-premise hardware with the unlimited and elastic capacity of the cloud, running the latest generation CPU and GPU hardware.

  2. Full HPC technology stack automation, including lifecycle automation of simulation software & license management (catalog of 300+ ISV and open-source simulation tools), and an always current integration on the latest HPC infrastructures from all major cloud providers. 

  3. Complete economic visibility, cost control, and optimization of HPC services across projects and teams running on multi-cloud infrastructures

We are looking for a Product leader with a background in Data management and AI workflows to build and mentor their team, while defining processes that will scale our business to the next level. They will deeply understand customer challenges and opportunities, develop strategic plans, and collaborate with engineering/go-to-market functions to not only deliver the product, but also work to ensure its commercial success. They have an eye for where the product needs to go, being intimate with key customer personas, and always optimizing between effort and impact.  And of course, fact and data-driven decision-making. 

In this role, you will be responsible for the following:  

  • Build and mentor highly functioning product teams

  • Define product roadmaps across the Rescale platform, prioritizing capabilities and features that drive customer value and business growth.

  • Engage with customers to understand and empathize with their problems, lead and challenge their thinking, identify opportunities we should tackle together, and gather continuous feedback.

  • Define and scope iterations of new capabilities, creating user stories, and engaging with development and engineering to identify how we can deliver value quickly (e.g., with MVPs) and continuously improve capabilities..

  • Represent Rescale with analysts, press & media.

  • Be the CEO of your product area. This means identifying investment areas, and prioritizing use cases and product capabilities based on business impact. It also means owning the delivery, field enablement, customer understanding and commercial success of your product

You might be a good fit for this role if you:

  • Self-starter. Able to operate in ambiguity, while adding structure as you move forward. 

  • Have an outcome-driven mindset. You start with the outcome and work backwards on what we need to accomplish to get there.

  • Are a highly structured problem solver and communicator.

  • Extensive experience in product management practices

  • 7-10+ years of experience in a product management, engineering or technology strategy role.

  • Have a Bachelor's degree with technical and/or business emphasis.

  • Proven leadership experience driving successful, high quality product delivery end to end.

  • Ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships.

Preferred Experience

  • Direct experience building products and services in one or more of the following areas:

  • Experienced directly collaborating with customers 

  • Demonstrated ability to ship a high-impact product

Rescale is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.  As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Rescale will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check.  

Technology

Problems we are Solving:

  • We're building a cloud orchestration framework to execute complex engineering workflows across multiple cloud providers.
  • We provide an additional layer of reliability, fault tolerance, and tuning for HPC applications which were not originally designed to run on cloud hardware.
  • We are helping engineering companies figure out the best way to incorporate machine learning algorithms into their design lifecycle.

Tech Stack:

  • Javascript - React/Angular
  • Python - Django Rest Framework
  • (Modern) Java - Dropwizard
  • Our core infrastructure runs on AWS. The compute clusters we run for customers are created on AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM in the cloud, along with Bare Metal On-Premises data centers.

Our engineering team is broken up into smaller groups of 5-7 people with a combined full stack skill set. We try to keep meetings to a minimum: there is a daily standup and a weekly task estimation meeting. We have two week release cycles however developers are encouraged to push important features and bug fixes to production as needed. Writing clean, testable code is a point of emphasis and we use GitHub PRs to ensure a minimum quality bar and also to disseminate best practices and spread domain knowledge around.

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